14
Edition
The Metta/LU Gazette
2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad2 Nov 2026
Joshua Baba wants to go home
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Metta/LU can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Harrison Jiakponna 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Yusif Yakubu stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Yusif Yakubu and Metta/LU agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
In brief
- Market Talks stall between Metta/LU and Abba Musa
- The dugout Emmanuel Onu knocks on the manager's door
- Squad Metta/LU take the armband off Daņiils Čiņajevs