Daniel Mjengu

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Sunday
Process

Marked for Daniel Mjengu

26 Edition

The KCB Chronicle

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

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.

Squad

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.

Market

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 The request is on a desk at KCB, and it is not being withdrawn.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 targets

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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 targets

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 dugout

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 dugout

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

Back issues
23 Edition

The KCB Chronicle

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

73 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.

Squad

The season belongs to Yafeesi Mubiru

An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and KCB have had the benefit of it.

Boardroom

KCB agree a free transfer for Edward Omondi Ondimo

Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.

Transfer targets

AFC Leopards tell KCB: James Kinyanjui 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.

Squad

A row about effort at KCB

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Morgan Billiat was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market

Elvis Ochoro attracts admirers

The name of Elvis Ochoro has come up in conversations KCB were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad

Nashon Alembi 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 targets

KCB try to borrow Lewis Bandi

Gor Mahia 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.

Transfer targets

KCB try to borrow Ayabonga Gwangqa

Polokwane City 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.

In brief