Ibrahim Ayoola

Striker - Police Union
26 Aug 2026
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Ibrahim Ayoola

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The Police Union Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

ES Mostaganem come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Police Union did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Mokhtar Ferrahi stands alone

7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Squad

A falling-out at Police Union

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

Squad

Mokhtar Ferrahi 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.

Transfer targets

Police Union rebuffed over Shikabala Aboutrika

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Masr El Makasa have kept their man, and Police Union go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

The dugout

Ebenezer Assifuah 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 has not finished forgetting Ahmed Abdallah's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

Transfer targets

Police Union ask about Osama Ahmed

A loan enquiry to Ittihad: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

The dugout

Police Union pick somebody else ahead of Steve Hoffman

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

In brief