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
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.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Gideon Monday
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad3 Aug 2026
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.
Match1 Aug 2026
A bad afternoon for Plateau United against Nasarawa United
1‑2 to Nasarawa United, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
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.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
Sunday Kalu faces the questions
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Sunday Kalu after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Market3 Aug 2026
Andrew Majalisa told to find a new club
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Andrew Majalisa has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Plateau United.
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
- Looking ahead A reunion for Yusuf Abdullahi