Paul Samson

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Plateau United
14 Aug 2026
Friday
Process

Marked for Paul Samson

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The Plateau United Sentinel

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

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.

Market

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Market

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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 dugout

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 dugout

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

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The Plateau United Sentinel

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

John Amah keeps Plateau United in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

Paul Samson signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Paul Samson commits to Plateau United for another 4 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Plateau United

Victor Dawa was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Market

Domnan Panse attracts admirers

The name of Domnan Panse has come up in conversations Plateau United were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad

Paul Odeh 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Plateau United against Nasarawa United

0‑2 to Nasarawa United, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Player ratings

Paul Samson beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 16. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Market

49 months and counting on Paul Samson

Still no offer on the table, and Paul Samson’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑2 Jamilu Olayinka left the room before anybody could ask which.

In brief