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Crisis
Match15 Feb 2027
Galactik are in real trouble now
Position 13, 8 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Match13 Feb 2027
0‑4 to AS PSI, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Match13 Feb 2027
No end in sight to Galactik's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Galactik has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Ousmane Biani was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match13 Feb 2027
No clean sheets in sight for Galactik
4 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.
Looking ahead15 Feb 2027
Everything rides on AS DGSSIE
Both clubs in the mire, one fixture between them, and a ground that will be louder and more frightened than at any point in the season. Galactik know what is at stake and so does everybody in the away end.
Boardroom15 Feb 2027
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑4 defeat, delivered by Marius Haroun to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
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Crisis
Match6 Feb 2027
Beaten 1‑4 by CotonTchad, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Galactik asked and US Moursal said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Ali Moustapha falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Ezechiel Abba ran the middle of the pitch — 7.17
He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 12 combined actions and a mark of 7.17, and not one of them will make a highlights package.
Market8 Feb 2027
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Abdramane Ndoram has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Galactik will try again when the window opens; AS Algoy may not be selling by then.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
Marius Adoum gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
In brief
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Boardroom
Inquest at Galactik
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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Squad
Too much change too quickly at Galactik
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Crisis
The terraces1 Feb 2027
The mood at Galactik has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Player ratings1 Feb 2027
No sign of nerves from Ezechiel Abba at 18 — 8.42
The hardest thing about being 18 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Ezechiel Abba did not need any: 8.42, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
Deadline passes with 5 signed and 0 gone
That is the business done at Galactik until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
Galactik have gone to AS Algoy 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
A falling-out at Galactik
Ousmane Biani and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings1 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match30 Jan 2027
Beaten 2‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
Galactik asked and AS Etat Major said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The terraces1 Feb 2027
At 18 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
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Crisis
Match23 Jan 2027
Beaten 0‑5 by US Moursal, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 9 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Market25 Jan 2027
FC Diarra come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Galactik did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market25 Jan 2027
Ezechiel Abba hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Galactik can pretend not to have heard.
Squad25 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Galactik this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Stars Jeunes Talents have kept their man, and Galactik go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Looking ahead25 Jan 2027
A six-pointer for Galactik
Stars Jeunes Talents next, and both sides can do the sum. Win and the table looks different; lose and it looks the way everybody has been fearing.
Boardroom25 Jan 2027
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
Loan watch25 Jan 2027
“I watch every Galactik game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at AS DGSSIE runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
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Steady
Match18 Jan 2027
Galactik sink to position 11
8 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.83 for the rest of it.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Ousmane Biani was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
Galactik asked and AS Algoy said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The terraces18 Jan 2027
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match16 Jan 2027
Gazelle made Galactik work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
Benjamin Ngakoutou was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.17. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words at Galactik training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Benjamin Ngakoutou 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.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
A promise honoured for Ali Mahamat
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Galactik told Ali Mahamat something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
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Crisis
Match9 Jan 2027
Nowhere to hide for Galactik
0‑6 against Elect Sport, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Squad11 Jan 2027
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market11 Jan 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Aiglons keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Match9 Jan 2027
No end in sight to Galactik's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Galactik has to find a result from somewhere.
Match9 Jan 2027
Nobody could stop scoring
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Galactik and Elect Sport in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Galactik
Ousmane Biani 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 targets11 Jan 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Stars Jeunes Talents have kept their man, and Galactik go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words at Galactik training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Benjamin Ngakoutou 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.
In brief
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Boardroom
Nobody left the Galactik dressing room in a hurry
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Squad
Idriss Abakar stays put
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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Crisis
Match2 Jan 2027
Chastening afternoon for Galactik
A 1‑4 beating by Foullah Edifice was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
The terraces4 Jan 2027
Anger at Galactik spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
Oumar Haroun: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Galactik have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. AS Algoy have kept their man, and Galactik go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match4 Jan 2027
Halfway: Galactik sit in position 13
5 points at the turn. The first half of a season is a promise; the second is a bill, and the town is about to find out which of the two this one was.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑4 defeat, delivered by Marius Haroun to a room that had heard them before.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
A loan enquiry to AS Etat Major: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Stars Jeunes Talents have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
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Crisis
Match26 Dec 2026
Nowhere to hide for Galactik
2‑5 against Aiglons, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
A brace, and Ezechiel Abba takes the afternoon — 8.43
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Ezechiel Abba provided it, and the 8.43 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad28 Dec 2026
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market28 Dec 2026
Ezechiel Abba hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Galactik can pretend not to have heard.
Match26 Dec 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 7 goals between Galactik and Aiglons, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Squad28 Dec 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 Galactik this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Ali Mahamat
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
Nobody left the Galactik dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Loan watch28 Dec 2026
“I did not go to AS DGSSIE to sit and watch. I want to come back to Galactik and fight for my place.” 3 appearances in 17 matches say the rest.
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Crisis
Match21 Dec 2026
Galactik are in real trouble now
Position 12, 5 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match19 Dec 2026
AS Etat Major left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ezechiel Djimet, and the manager let it.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Ali Mahamat knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Galactik, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad21 Dec 2026
The division's best last weekend was a Galactik man
It is a small honour and it is not nothing: somebody watched every match in the division and decided that Ousmane Biani was the best thing in any of them.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
10 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Youssouf Abdraman has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Galactik will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
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Uneasy
Match12 Dec 2026
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against AS Algoy, and it could have been more.
Squad14 Dec 2026
The match ball belongs to Ousmane Biani, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Match12 Dec 2026
At last: Galactik win one
10 matches without a win, and then this, against AS Algoy. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
No sign of nerves from Ezechiel Abba at 18 — 7.87
The hardest thing about being 18 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Ezechiel Abba did not need any: 7.87, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
A performance of 9.45 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
The terraces14 Dec 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 18-year-old it feels ownership of. Ezechiel Abba has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Marius Adoum was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Market14 Dec 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Hassan Mbainaissem has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
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Uneasy
Squad7 Dec 2026
Ezechiel Abba named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Ezechiel Abba is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
Ali Abakar asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Not a new contract, not a new number: a new place in the manager’s thinking, which is the only promotion in football that actually matters. Abanga Mahamat Youssouf has moved up it.
Market7 Dec 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Galactik know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad7 Dec 2026
The shrug has gone, the language is coming, and he now argues in training like somebody who expects to be here next year. Half a signing's value is this and none of it appears on a fee.
Looking ahead7 Dec 2026
Next up at home: AS Algoy, who go into it in position 9. The kind of fixture a season is quietly built on or quietly loses its shape in.
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Crisis
Match28 Nov 2026
The wait goes on for Galactik
10 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match28 Nov 2026
Chastening afternoon for Galactik
A 0‑5 beating by Renaissance was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Squad30 Nov 2026
8 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Market30 Nov 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 Galactik, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad30 Nov 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 Galactik this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
Loan watch30 Nov 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Galactik, and 3 appearances in 13 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Marius Haroun after 0‑5, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Squad30 Nov 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Saleh Mbainaissem and Galactik agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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Uneasy
Match21 Nov 2026
9 matches without a win for Galactik
The run now stands at 9, and the questions being asked around Galactik are no longer polite ones.
Match23 Nov 2026
Galactik are in real trouble now
Position 12, 2 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Ousmane Biani was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match21 Nov 2026
Galactik hit back inside 1 minutes
AS DGSSIE held the lead for 1 minutes, which is not long enough to enjoy it. Galactik answered before the celebration had properly finished, and the shape of the afternoon changed with it.
Match21 Nov 2026
It needed Ezechiel Abba to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against AS DGSSIE, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Marius Haroun was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Galactik dressing room was either.
Looking ahead23 Nov 2026
The leaders are next for Galactik
Renaissance top the table and they are coming into view. Nothing to lose, which is what every manager says before losing.
Squad23 Nov 2026
At 18 he was the best of everybody his age in the division for one weekend. Nobody should build a career on it and everybody quietly does.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Youssouf Abdraman has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Galactik will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
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Crisis
Match14 Nov 2026
Beaten 4‑7 by AS PSI, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Match14 Nov 2026
8 matches without a win for Galactik
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Galactik are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
A brace, and Ezechiel Abba takes the afternoon — 8.73
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Ezechiel Abba provided it, and the 8.73 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Match14 Nov 2026
Galactik are shipping goals every week
Two or more conceded in each of the last 8 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Brahim Abakar, 16, plays like he has been here for years — 7.95
A mark of 7.95 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 16-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Match14 Nov 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 11 goals between Galactik and AS PSI, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Beaten 7 times, 4 saves, and an afternoon that will go on his record whether it was his fault or the defence’s. It is the quiet unfairness of the position.
The terraces16 Nov 2026
At 18 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ezechiel Djimet, and the manager let it.
In brief
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Boardroom
Doors closed at Galactik
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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Squad
A Galactik teenager takes the young player award
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Crisis
Match4 Nov 2026
The small margins put Galactik out
Out, 2‑3 to Aiglons, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Match4 Nov 2026
2 goals to the good, and then a slow surrender of everything that had been earned. Youssouf Abdraman will not be the one blamed for it, but nobody at Galactik escapes the conversation that follows a collapse like this.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.55 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Match7 Nov 2026
7 matches without a win for Galactik
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Galactik are no longer polite ones.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match7 Nov 2026
Galactik are shipping goals every week
Two or more conceded in each of the last 7 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Galactik
Ousmane Biani and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The terraces9 Nov 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Youssouf Abdraman has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match7 Nov 2026
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
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Uneasy
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Two goals and a mark of 9.32 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Marius Adoum: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Galactik have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Ezechiel Abba, 18, plays like he has been here for years — 7.81
A mark of 7.81 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 18-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Match31 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Galactik's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Galactik has to find a result from somewhere.
Market2 Nov 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 Galactik, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match31 Oct 2026
No clean sheets in sight for Galactik
5 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.
Match31 Oct 2026
A 3‑3 draw with Stars Jeunes Talents leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Crisis
Match24 Oct 2026
Chastening afternoon for Galactik
A 1‑5 beating by US Moursal was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Match24 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Galactik
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match24 Oct 2026
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Galactik and US Moursal in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Ousmane Biani was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match24 Oct 2026
Galactik leaking at the back
4 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
Boardroom26 Oct 2026
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑5 Marius Haroun left the room before anybody could ask which.
Squad26 Oct 2026
4 saves does not settle the argument about whose fault it was, and the argument will run all week. Goalkeepers carry these scorelines whoever caused them.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Galactik are still strangers to each other
5 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
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Crisis
Match17 Oct 2026
Beaten 1‑5 by Gazelle, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Match17 Oct 2026
Ahmat Moustapha among the goals in a wild afternoon
6 goals in one match, Ahmat Moustapha on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Galactik and Gazelle.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑5, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Looking ahead19 Oct 2026
US Moursal next, and one man in the Galactik dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Every signing waits for it and every press conference asks about it until it comes. It has come, Galactik have their man off the mark, and the second one is always easier.
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Crisis
Squad12 Oct 2026
9 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Match10 Oct 2026
Nowhere to hide for Galactik
0‑3 against Elect Sport, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Galactik
Ousmane Biani and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market12 Oct 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Abdoulaye Mbaiguedem has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Boardroom12 Oct 2026
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ahmat Moustapha, and the manager let it.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Off the academy pitches and into a senior shirt, at 16. The parents in the stand will keep the programme, and so will he.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A window away with the national side, and a shirt at Galactik that briefly doubles as an advertisement. A call-up flatters the player and the club that built him in the same breath.
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Crisis
Squad5 Oct 2026
6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
A defender's goal wins it for Galactik — 7.72
1 for Abanga Mahamat Youssouf, marked 7.72, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Market5 Oct 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Ali Abakar is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad5 Oct 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 Galactik this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Graduation day at Galactik
1 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Match3 Oct 2026
Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Market5 Oct 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Moussa Allamine has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Marius Adoum gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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Steady
Market28 Sep 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 Galactik, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad28 Sep 2026
At 25 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 3 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.
Squad28 Sep 2026
5 new faces, and Galactik are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
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Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Galactik
Ousmane Biani 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 targets21 Sep 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A season on the outside for Ezechiel Abba
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Galactik has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
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Steady
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
US Moursal wanted more than $3.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Market14 Sep 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Saleh Mbainaissem has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market14 Sep 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Hassan Allamine has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
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Steady
Market7 Sep 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 17 in, 1 out at Galactik
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 17 arrived, 1 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at AS Algoy is saying, and nobody at Galactik is enjoying the guessing.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Ali Abakar is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Galactik have gone to US Moursal 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Ali Mahamat was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Galactik asked and AS Etat Major said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad7 Sep 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 targets7 Sep 2026
A loan enquiry to US Moursal: 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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Steady
Market31 Aug 2026
Ali Mahamat hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Galactik can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
The deal with AS Algoy is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Gazelle is saying, and nobody at Galactik is enjoying the guessing.
Market31 Aug 2026
The chase for Ali Mahamat ended with $14.0K changing hands and AS Etat Major out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Galactik asked and US Moursal said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market31 Aug 2026
He is 18, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
Squad31 Aug 2026
5 new faces, and Galactik are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Squad31 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.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ahmat Moustapha, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at US Moursal is saying, and nobody at Galactik is enjoying the guessing.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Galactik
Ousmane Biani 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 targets24 Aug 2026
$9.0K was the most the club would pay and CotonTchad were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. US Moursal have kept their man, and Galactik go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market24 Aug 2026
The name of Moussa Souleymane has come up in conversations Galactik were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to Stars Jeunes Talents: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Oumar Haroun and Galactik agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
Oumar Haroun asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Galactik
Ousmane Biani and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Galactik asked and Renaissance said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to US Moursal: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Squad17 Aug 2026
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Galactik are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
Market17 Aug 2026
A season-long look at somebody else’s player: Ahmat Tokindang arrives from US Moursal with something to prove and a return ticket in the drawer. Good loans make everybody richer; this one starts Saturday.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Galactik would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
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Steady
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. AS Etat Major have kept their man, and Galactik go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Oumar Haroun has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Adam Tokindang is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Brahim Abakar has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Issa Abba has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The formation has left Ali Abakar behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Galactik will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ousmane Biani commits to Galactik for another 2 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 Galactik this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
AS Etat Major have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.