The Bayelsa United Courier
Squad7 Sep 2026
Ebiabowei Baker damages knee ligaments — 129 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 129 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market7 Sep 2026
Kolawole Oladipo asks to leave Bayelsa United
“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.
Match5 Sep 2026
The wait goes on for Bayelsa United
8 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
So close: Otutu Young’s move dies late
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Kun Khalifat moved on, Otutu Young reports back to Bayelsa United, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Mustapha Jawad in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bayelsa United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Federico Freire 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 ratings7 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Marcos Giménez
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Andy Ezekiel
“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.
Market7 Sep 2026
Bayelsa United and Nitai Greis are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
In brief
- Player ratings Nothing got past Gabriel Biriduba
- Match Bayelsa United and Abia Warriors cancel each other out
- Market Markson Ojobo placed on the list