The Plateau United Sentinel
Squad3 Aug 2026
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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Plateau United
Okiemute Odah 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.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Silas Nenrot runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Mustapha Abdullahi 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
9 new faces, and Plateau United are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Plateau United ask about Thato Sibiya
A loan enquiry to Mamelodi Sundowns: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan move for Ramahlwe Zwane is in the works
Plateau United have made the call to SuperSport United. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Emmanuel Olayinka was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Plateau United dressing room was either.
In brief
- Market Plateau United and Ossy Martins are talking past each other
- The dugout The plan did not have a place for Okiemute Odah
- Match Plateau United and Abia Warriors cancel each other out