Marked for Gift Osadebe
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match17 Apr 2027
The unbeaten run reaches 13. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Plateau United may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad19 Apr 2027
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 ratings19 Apr 2027
Paul Samson beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 19. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match17 Apr 2027
It finished 1‑0, and it was Gimba Ajiji’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Plateau United.
Squad19 Apr 2027
100 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
Ossy Martins 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.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.77 on the card, and the Plateau United support went home talking about one name.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Yahaya Ibrahim 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.
In brief
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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Market
Gift Osadebe told to find a new club
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Player ratings
Gideon Monday could have had three
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
The knee: Henry Udeh out for 23 days
23 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Plateau United lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Jonathan Okechukwu is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Victor Dawa and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
“I watch every Plateau United game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Berekum Chelsea runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Victor Dawa 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 Plateau United, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Dickson Ibrahim 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match29 Aug 2026
0‑0 against Shooting Stars, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Market31 Aug 2026
“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 Plateau United, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market31 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Paul Odeh beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 24. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Plateau United have done the hard part with Orlando Pirates, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad31 Aug 2026
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.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Ossy Martins
“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 Aug 2026
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.
In brief
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Transfer targets
A loan move for Teboho Billiat is in the works
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Player ratings
Victor Dawa stands above it all
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The dugout
The view from the dugout