The Tusker Post
Squad11 Jan 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Abud Omar
132 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Tusker lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market11 Jan 2027
Brandon Obiero agrees terms with Sofapaka
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Tusker people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market11 Jan 2027
Brandon Obiero asks to leave Tusker
“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.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Pereowei Magbisa will not be coming to Tusker
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Flamurtari is saying, and nobody at Tusker is enjoying the guessing.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Tusker lose Chris Erambo
28 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Tusker
Ian Simiyu Jr. 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.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
A loan move for Kermit Mokoena is in the works
Tusker have made the call to SuperSport United. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
Brandon Obiero 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Tusker
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Edwin Simiyu was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
In brief
- The dugout Abud Omar has become a man the manager trusts
- The dugout Xhovalin Trifoni asks for a word with the manager
- Market The Victor Mbaoma story refuses to die