Alex Nnadede

Central Defender - Mara Sugar
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112 Edition

The Mara Sugar Chronicle

18 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Boardroom18 Sep 2028

The scrutiny sharpens at Mara Sugar

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Mara Sugar is running low.

Squad18 Sep 2028

A fracture rules Geoffrey Ochieng out for 15 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Mara Sugar will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match16 Sep 2028

Luyanda Makhathini’s goal not enough for Mara Sugar

Luyanda Makhathini scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to APS Bomet, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Squad18 Sep 2028

Tempers go at Mara Sugar

Luyanda Makhathini 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.

The dugout18 Sep 2028

No hiding place for Edward Omondi Ondimo

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

Player ratings18 Sep 2028

Shaka Zulu runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad18 Sep 2028

7 new faces, and Mara Sugar are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

The dugout18 Sep 2028

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 1‑2 Dennis Chemelil left the room before anybody could ask which.

Squad18 Sep 2028

Alex Nnadede is a square peg at Mara Sugar

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

In brief

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111 Edition

The Mara Sugar Chronicle

11 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

The terraces11 Sep 2028

Anger at Mara Sugar spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Squad11 Sep 2028

23 days out for Geoffrey Ochieng after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Mara Sugar will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Transfer targets11 Sep 2028

James Murage turns down Mara Sugar

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: another club keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad11 Sep 2028

Brian Ochieng 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

A falling-out at Mara Sugar

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

The dugout11 Sep 2028

Robinson Musungu frozen out at Mara Sugar

This is not rotation. Robinson Musungu has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Mara Sugar is pretending otherwise.

Squad11 Sep 2028

The formation has left Edward Omondi Ondimo behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Mara Sugar will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

Market11 Sep 2028

Mara Sugar sign Alex Nnadede, one for the future

Alex Nnadede is 20, and Mara Sugar 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.

The dugout11 Sep 2028

Robinson Musungu 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