The Great Olympics Gazette
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Great Olympics
Seth Paintsil 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
Stade Malien tell Great Olympics: Taddeus Nkeng is not for sale
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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Great Olympics
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Samuel Agu was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad24 Aug 2026
No place for Klinshak Longbak in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Great Olympics are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
Market24 Aug 2026
Talks stall between Great Olympics and Klinshak Longbak
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
A loan move for Akpos Godbless is in the works
Great Olympics have made the call to Bayelsa United. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Great Olympics try to borrow Stanley Amon
Bayelsa United 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Kamaldeen Sulemana signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Kamaldeen Sulemana commits to Great Olympics for another 3 years.
Market24 Aug 2026
Great Olympics shop where it costs nothing
Samuel Agu signs, and the fee column stays empty. Deals like this look small in July and clever by March — or they are never mentioned again.
In brief
- The dugout Kamaldeen Sulemana asks for a word with the manager
- The dugout Mohammed Aminu keeps his manager's vote