Elmer Arunta

Central Midfielder - Bendel Insurance
6 Mar 2027
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Marked for Elmer Arunta

18 Edition

The Bendel Insurance Post

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad30 Nov 2026

Tempers go at Bendel Insurance

Oke Kayode 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.

Squad30 Nov 2026

Elmer Arunta 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.

The dugout30 Nov 2026

Julius Emiloju Junior 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 Bendel Insurance, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

Back issues
9 Edition

The Bendel Insurance Post

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad28 Sep 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Tobi Ige

34 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Bendel Insurance lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match26 Sep 2026

The wait goes on for Bendel Insurance

6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Oke Kayode 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 Bendel Insurance this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match26 Sep 2026

El-Kanemi Warriors snatch it back from Bendel Insurance

A goal on 88 minutes turned three points into one and a good afternoon into an argument about game management that will run until Saturday.

Loan watch28 Sep 2026

Anthony Cletus wants to come home

“I did not go to Gandzasar to sit and watch. I want to come back to Bendel Insurance and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Elmer Arunta was the difference for Bendel Insurance

Marked 7.67. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

Match26 Sep 2026

Elmer Arunta rescues a point for Bendel Insurance

It needed Elmer Arunta to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against El-Kanemi Warriors, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

The dugout28 Sep 2026

Half-satisfied: Calvin Awoniyi on the draw

“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 1‑1, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Words at Bendel Insurance training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Elmer Arunta is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

In brief

3 Edition

The Bendel Insurance Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market17 Aug 2026

Elmer Arunta is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Bendel Insurance is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Boardroom17 Aug 2026

Elmer Arunta has agreed to leave Bendel Insurance for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at Bendel Insurance

Oke Kayode 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.

Match15 Aug 2026

Bendel Insurance come up short against Abia Warriors

Abia Warriors left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Words at Bendel Insurance training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Chinedu Nwosu is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Emmanuel Nwokeji

Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The dugout17 Aug 2026

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Calvin Awoniyi to a room that had heard them before.

The dugout17 Aug 2026

Somebody else is better right now than Christian Molokwu

The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.

The dugout17 Aug 2026

Chisom Chikatara 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.

In brief