The Ikorodu City Chronicle
Squad30 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Ikorodu City
Tosin Oyedokun and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Ikorodu City lose Anderson Pere
72 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Victor Ejukah stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Victor Ejukah and Ikorodu City agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Seun Agboola 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.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Michael Atata 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 dugout30 Nov 2026
Ayomide Cole has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Ikorodu City 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
- The dugout Ayomide Cole has been promised minutes
- The dugout Gideon Manaseh keeps his manager's vote
- Loan watch The clock runs down on Samuel Ezekiel at Great Olympics