The KCB Chronicle
Market25 Jan 2027
Rowland Makati agrees terms with Mara Sugar
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around KCB people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Squad25 Jan 2027
51 days out for Bonphas Munyasa after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. KCB will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market25 Jan 2027
Fadhili Mwinyimvua puts it in writing
“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 The request is on a desk at KCB, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
The paperwork begins on Oarabile Booysen
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. KCB have done the hard part with Mamelodi Sundowns, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Morgan Billiat 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Daniel Mjengu 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 KCB this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
KCB try to borrow Thamsanqa Zungu
Ajax Cape Town 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.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
Gideon Werre 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.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
Morgan Billiat 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.
In brief
- Squad Richard Omondi wants out of the dugout
- Market The Yafeesi Mubiru question follows KCB around