From our football correspondent
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Market31 Aug 2026
$180.0K — a new record at Fortuna Mfou
No footballer has ever cost this club more, and the number will be read out every time he misplaces a pass for the next two years.
Squad31 Aug 2026
39 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Fortuna Mfou lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market31 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Fortuna Mfou, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Fortuna Mfou have done the hard part with Aigle Royal de Moungo, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad31 Aug 2026
At 21 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad31 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Fortuna Mfou this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Fortuna Mfou have gone to Dynamo Douala with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
No deal for Franck Talla at that price
Fortuna Mfou offered $29.0K; Dynamo Douala said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
Fortuna Mfou spend $180.0K on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $180.0K for Kadad Ning Che, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
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Squad24 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Alex Mani Onguene
46 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Fortuna Mfou lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market24 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Fortuna Mfou, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with PWD Bamenda, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Market24 Aug 2026
AS PSI come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Fortuna Mfou did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Paschal Durugbor and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
$26.0K on the table at Dynamo Douala. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
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Squad17 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Alex Mani Onguene
53 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Fortuna Mfou lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
$170.0K on the table at PWD Bamenda. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Paschal Durugbor and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Fortuna Mfou asked and Golden Arrows said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market17 Aug 2026
The name of Carlitos Djapa has come up in conversations Fortuna Mfou were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad17 Aug 2026
He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and Fortuna Mfou know which stage they are at.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to Gazelle Garoua: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
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Squad10 Aug 2026
Zaharaddeen Bello arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Zaharaddeen Bello has, at Fortuna Mfou, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Squad10 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Fortuna Mfou this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Zaharaddeen Bello and Fortuna Mfou agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Fortuna Mfou training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aminou Bouba is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Fortuna Mfou asked and Real Bamako said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Achille Embolo is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
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Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Aliou Souleyman Hendji and Fortuna Mfou agree another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Fortuna Mfou this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market3 Aug 2026
He signed expecting a bigger stage than the one he found. It has not taken long, and it has not taken the dressing room long to notice either.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Aminou Bouba has outgrown this division
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Fortuna Mfou know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Market3 Aug 2026
49 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.