Cayden Cole

Left Back - Katsina United
8 Jul 2029
Sunday
Process
Overview Personal Contract News 2 Transfers Relations Events 71 Awards Matches History

Marked for Cayden Cole

138 Edition

The Katsina United Herald

19 Mar 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market19 Mar 2029

Usman Barau 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 The request is on a desk at Katsina United, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match17 Mar 2029

Enyimba take the points off Katsina United

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad19 Mar 2029

Words at Katsina United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sani Faisal 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.

Squad19 Mar 2029

A falling-out at Katsina United

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

The dugout19 Mar 2029

Interim Coach: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

The dugout19 Mar 2029

The manager makes an example of Haruna Attah

“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.

The dugout19 Mar 2029

No place in the plan for Samson Obi

The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.

Market19 Mar 2029

Michael Okoro linked with a move away

The name of Michael Okoro keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Katsina United say nothing, which says plenty.

The dugout19 Mar 2029

Cayden Cole has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Katsina United will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief

Back issues
111 Edition

The Katsina United Herald

11 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market11 Sep 2028

Only the photograph left for Joshua Enaholo

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Joshua Enaholo will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Katsina United the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Transfer targets11 Sep 2028

No thanks: Olamilekan Adedayo rejects the move

Katsina United had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Remo Stars, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad11 Sep 2028

Tempers go at Katsina United

Afeez Bankole 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.

Transfer targets11 Sep 2028

Deadline beats Katsina United to Isiaq Rasaq

The clock did what Bayelsa United would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.

Squad11 Sep 2028

Sani Faisal 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.

Squad11 Sep 2028

Too much change too quickly at Katsina 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.

Market11 Sep 2028

Katsina United sign Cayden Cole, one for the future

Cayden Cole is 20, and Katsina United have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

Squad11 Sep 2028

Cayden Cole signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Cayden Cole commits to Katsina United for another 3 years.

Market11 Sep 2028

Talks stall between Katsina United and Tochukwu Ogbadibo

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

In brief