David Joseph

Defensive Midfielder - Free Agent
7 Dec 2026
Monday
Process

Marked for David Joseph

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The Warri Wolves Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Warri Wolves taken apart

1‑4 to Rangers International, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Squad

Miracle Ukadike keeps Warri Wolves in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Market

David Joseph 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 The request is on a desk at Warri Wolves, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match

No end in sight to Warri Wolves's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Warri Wolves has to find a result from somewhere.

Market

Warri Wolves turn down ES Mostaganem for Miracle Ukadike

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market

Abdulateef Yusuff has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Warri Wolves they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Match

No clean sheets in sight for Warri Wolves

5 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.

Squad

Tempers go at Warri Wolves

Othuke Egbo 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 ratings

Othuke Egbo runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

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The Warri Wolves Courier

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Vincent Edafe keeps Warri Wolves in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Player ratings

Igbunu Evwierhurhoma scores twice — 9.23

Two goals and a mark of 9.23 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market

Abdulateef Yusuff 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 Warri Wolves can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Vincent Edafe signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Vincent Edafe and Warri Wolves agree another 4 years.

Squad

A falling-out at Warri Wolves

Othuke Egbo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

A bad afternoon for Warri Wolves against Bayelsa United

2‑3 to Bayelsa United, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Market

Kun Khalifat watching Godstime Edewor

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Warri Wolves have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

The dugout

Innocent Orukpe 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.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 2‑3 Oscar Adebayor left the room before anybody could ask which.

In brief