From our football correspondent
Steady
Market1 Nov 2027
Emmanuel Ujah hands in a written request“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Remo Stars can pretend not to have heard.
Squad1 Nov 2027
Lekan Malik 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.
Squad1 Nov 2027
“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.
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Steady
Squad4 Oct 2027
Sodiq Oshidero : that is not what I was promised“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Remo Stars have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Boardroom4 Oct 2027
$1.1M on the table at Remo Stars
The board have answered with money instead of encouragement, which is the only answer a manager ever wants. Spending it well is now entirely his problem.
Squad4 Oct 2027
The manager makes an example of Emmanuel Ujah
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
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Uneasy
Market30 Aug 2027
Padova come back empty-handedThe bid was some way short and Remo Stars did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market30 Aug 2027
Jérôme Bonou has one foot out of the doorTerms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Remo Stars they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad30 Aug 2027
At 21, Adama Goïta is already the best thing here
An average of 7.07 in a first team he is several years too young for. Remo Stars have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.
Match28 Aug 2027
Three points for Remo Stars , 2-0 the final word against Kano Pillars in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad30 Aug 2027
“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.
Market30 Aug 2027
Remo Stars have made Emmanuel Ujah available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
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Uneasy
Match31 Jul 2027
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 28 matches without defeat is a foundation Remo Stars did not have in the autumn.
Match31 Jul 2027
6 matches without a win for Remo Stars
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Remo Stars are no longer polite ones.
Market2 Aug 2027
Jérôme Bonou has one foot out of the doorTerms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Remo Stars they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Adama Goïta is the real thing at 21A season average of 7.02 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Remo Stars know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
Squad2 Aug 2027
“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.
Market2 Aug 2027
Canon Yaounde are about to pick up the phoneA conversation is coming this week. Remo Stars will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
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Uneasy
Match10 Jul 2027
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 25 matches without defeat is a foundation Remo Stars did not have in the autumn.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Emmanuel Ujah : that is not what I was promised“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Remo Stars have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market12 Jul 2027
CSKA Sofia come back empty-handedThe bid was some way short and Remo Stars did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad12 Jul 2027
The manager makes an example of Serge Obassa
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match10 Jul 2027
A 1-1 draw with Plateau United leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Squad12 Jul 2027
2 goals and a season average of 7.31. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
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Steady
Match29 May 2027
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 19 matches without defeat is a foundation Remo Stars did not have in the autumn.
Squad31 May 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad31 May 2027
At 21, Adama Goïta is already the best thing here
An average of 7.00 in a first team he is several years too young for. Remo Stars have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.
Fabian Nworie Fabian Nworie says Remo Stars went back on their word
Match29 May 2027
A 2-1 win over Shooting Stars , earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad31 May 2027
The manager makes an example of Emmanuel Ujah
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad31 May 2027
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Remo Stars have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
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Steady
Match1 May 2027
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 15 matches without defeat is a foundation Remo Stars did not have in the autumn.
Squad3 May 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad3 May 2027
At 21, Adama Goïta is already the best thing here
An average of 7.02 in a first team he is several years too young for. Remo Stars have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.
Denis Nya Denis Nya says Remo Stars went back on their word
Match1 May 2027
A 2-1 win over Rangers International , earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad3 May 2027
The manager makes an example of Emmanuel Ujah
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad3 May 2027
The award goes to Ahmed Akinyele , and nobody around here is inclined to argue with the choice.
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Upbeat
Squad29 Mar 2027
Issah Mohammed : that is not what I was promised“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Remo Stars have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad29 Mar 2027
A one-man rearguard from Bruce Bvuma
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Match27 Mar 2027
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 9 matches without defeat is a foundation Remo Stars did not have in the autumn.
Market29 Mar 2027
Mark Gibson has one foot out of the doorTerms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Remo Stars they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match27 Mar 2027
Katsina United made Remo Stars work for it, but the scoreboard read 2-1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad29 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Emmanuel Ujah
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Loan watch29 Mar 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Remo Stars , and 0 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Lekan Malik 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.
Market29 Mar 2027
Mark Gibson runs his contract down3 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Remo Stars money.
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Upbeat
Market1 Mar 2027
Mark Gibson has one foot out of the doorTerms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Remo Stars they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Loan watch1 Mar 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Remo Stars , and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
Match27 Feb 2027
Three points for Remo Stars , 1-0 the final word against Plateau United in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad1 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Emmanuel Ujah
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market1 Mar 2027
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Hadi Haruna 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.
Market1 Mar 2027
Still no signature from Mark Gibson
4 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Remo Stars could get for him.
Market1 Mar 2027
Remo Stars have made Ebuka Anthony available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
The terraces1 Mar 2027
The press have found their man in Adama Goïta
Column inches are not points, but a footballer whose name keeps appearing for the right reasons is a footballer whose price has just gone up.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market1 Feb 2027
Emmanuel Ujah hands in a written request“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Remo Stars can pretend not to have heard.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Ibrahim Obansa : that is not what I was promised“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Remo Stars have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market1 Feb 2027
Mark Gibson has one foot out of the doorTerms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Remo Stars they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market1 Feb 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Remo Stars have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Match30 Jan 2027
Abia Warriors made Remo Stars work for it, but the scoreboard read 1-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad1 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Emmanuel Ujah
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Samson Olasupo 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Market1 Feb 2027
Remo Stars have made Ebuka Anthony available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
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Steady
Squad28 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Serge Obassa
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Emmanuel Ujah knocks on the manager's door“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Remo Stars , and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad28 Sep 2026
The selectors could not leave Adama Goïta out
6.63 across ninety minutes and a place in the division's team of the week. He was the best player on that pitch and everybody there knew it.
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Upbeat
Match19 Sep 2026
A 1-0 win over Warri Wolves , earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Michael Okoro
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Emmanuel Ujah 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.