The Plateau United Sentinel
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Paul Samson
Successful dribbles: 33. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market10 Aug 2026
Domnan Panse agrees terms with Wikki Tourists
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Plateau United people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Victor Dawa 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 Plateau United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Plateau United lose Yahaya Ibrahim
15 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market10 Aug 2026
The clock runs on Victor Dawa's contract
48 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Plateau United
9 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Plateau United training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andrew Majalisa is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
Okiemute Odah dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
Jamilu Olayinka on the point
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Jamilu Olayinka after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
In brief
- Market Talks stall between Plateau United and Gimba Ajiji
- Match No goals between Plateau United and Niger Tornadoes
- Looking ahead Victor Dawa goes back to face Wikki Tourists