Jerry Ogu

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281 Edition

The Kano Pillars Gazette

15 Dec 2031
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad15 Dec 2031

Tobi Alagbe 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 Kano Pillars this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad15 Dec 2031

Ali 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.

Squad15 Dec 2031

Jerry Ogu stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Jerry Ogu and Kano Pillars agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

In brief

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280 Edition

The Kano Pillars Gazette

8 Dec 2031
From our football correspondent Steady

Market8 Dec 2031

John Ihenacho 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 The request is on a desk at Kano Pillars, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad8 Dec 2031

Jerry Ogu gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Jerry Ogu has just signed for Kano Pillars, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad8 Dec 2031

Tempers go at Kano Pillars

Tobi Alagbe 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.

Boardroom8 Dec 2031

Olasunkanmi Quadri will join Kano Pillars for nothing

The paperwork is done long before the player is. Olasunkanmi Quadri has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Kano Pillars have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.

Squad8 Dec 2031

Anas Yusuf 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.

Boardroom8 Dec 2031

$2.9M on the table at Kano Pillars

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.

Squad8 Dec 2031

Mohammed Galadima has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Kano Pillars will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Boardroom8 Dec 2031

$312.6K a year onto the Kano Pillars books

A new partner, a signature and a photograph nobody will remember. It funds a fortnight of wages, which is more than most headlines on this page can say for themselves.

Market8 Dec 2031

Kano Pillars shop where it costs nothing

Jerry Ogu signs, and the fee column stays empty. Deals like this look small in July and clever by March — or they are never mentioned again.

In brief