Samad Popoola

Defensive Midfielder - Ikorodu City
5 Sep 2026
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Marked for Samad Popoola

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The Ikorodu City Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match19 Aug 2026

Ikorodu City march on in the cup

Enyimba are out and Ikorodu City go through, 2‑1 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Market24 Aug 2026

Anderson Pere 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 Ikorodu City can pretend not to have heard.

Market24 Aug 2026

AS Bakaridjan come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Ikorodu City did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Ikorodu City

Tosin Oyedokun 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 ratings24 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Oluwatomisin Adebayo

Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Words at Ikorodu City training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Shodeinde Moses 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.

Squad24 Aug 2026

No hiding place for Shodeinde Moses

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Shodeinde Moses, and the manager let it.

Match22 Aug 2026

A bad afternoon for Ikorodu City against Rivers United

0‑1 to Rivers United, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Market24 Aug 2026

Still no ink between Ikorodu City and Samad Popoola

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Ikorodu City, another week without a signature from Samad Popoola.

In brief

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The Ikorodu City Chronicle

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad10 Aug 2026

A move Samad Popoola would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Samad Popoola is living that version at Ikorodu City, and it tends to show in the first month.

Market10 Aug 2026

Olanrewaju Molade asks to leave Ikorodu City

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market10 Aug 2026

Only the photograph left for Gbenga Opamoye

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Gbenga Opamoye will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Ikorodu City the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Boardroom10 Aug 2026

Gbenga Opamoye signs for Rangers International while still at Ikorodu City

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Gbenga Opamoye has agreed terms with Rangers International for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Market10 Aug 2026

Ikorodu City say no — this time

The offer from El-Kanemi Warriors for Thompson Jasmine was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Tosin Oyedokun 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 Ikorodu City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Shodeinde Moses 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.

Market10 Aug 2026

Ibifubara Dagogo attracts admirers

The name of Ibifubara Dagogo has come up in conversations Ikorodu City were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad10 Aug 2026

No hiding place for Chineme Chinonso

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Chineme Chinonso, and the manager let it.

In brief