Uche Jaguar

Central Defender - Kwara United
6 Sep 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Uche Jaguar

5 Edition

The Kwara United Sentinel

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Kwara United leave it late against Barau

Ninety minutes of very little, and then everything at once. The winner arrived in the 86th, and Barau spent what remained of the match appealing to the referee rather than chasing the ball.

Player ratings

Uche Jaguar, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 7.82

A mark of 7.82 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Boardroom

Muhammed Alao has agreed to leave Kwara United for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Transfer targets

Kwara United rebuffed over Alou Doumbia

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Djoliba have kept their man, and Kwara United go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Uche Jaguar 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.

Player ratings

Both jobs done by Mustapha Salisu — 6.94

A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 12 actions, 6.94, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.

Match

Kwara United end the wait against Barau

It had gone 5 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.

Match

Junior Aimufua the difference as Kwara United beat Barau

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Junior Aimufua. 1‑0 against Barau, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad

Jimoh Gbadamosi signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jimoh Gbadamosi commits to Kwara United for another 3 years.

In brief

Back issues
4 Edition

The Kwara United Sentinel

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The cup run ends for Kwara United

2‑3 against El-Kanemi Warriors, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Player ratings

Suleiman Yusuf could not have asked for more on his first appearance — 7.48

Debuts are survived rather than enjoyed. This one was enjoyed: 7.48, 1 goals, and a manager already being asked whether he starts again next week.

Squad

7 saves: Nurudeen Badmos was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Match

No end in sight to Kwara United's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Kwara United has to find a result from somewhere.

Market

Kwara United turn down Mosta for Babatunde Bright

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Match

No clean sheets in sight for Kwara United

5 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.

Squad

Uche Jaguar in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Kwara United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Jerry Alex

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Transfer targets

Kwara United rebuffed over Daouda Koné

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Real Bamako have kept their man, and Kwara United go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

In brief

3 Edition

The Kwara United Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Tempers go at Kwara United

Uche Jaguar 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Kwara United against Warri Wolves

1‑3 to Warri Wolves, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

A row about effort at Kwara United

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Junior Aimufua was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Player ratings

Abdulsalam Abdulsalam beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 16. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑3 defeat, delivered by Shehu Moffi to a room that had heard them before.

Transfer targets

Kwara United try to borrow Daouda Koné

Real Bamako have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

The dugout

Jimoh Gbadamosi 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.

Looking ahead

Philip Ozor goes back to face Enyimba

Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Philip Ozor’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Kwara United needing him to play as if none of it matters.

Squad

Saka Abdulmajeed makes his debut at 19

At 19 years old, Saka Abdulmajeed became the latest name off the academy production line to be handed a senior shirt.

In brief

2 Edition

The Kwara United Sentinel

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

Kwara United to lose Abdulraheem Shola for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Abdulraheem Shola has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Market

Only the photograph left for Jamiu Sulaimon

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

Match

A bad afternoon for Kwara United against Rangers International

1‑3 to Rangers International, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

A row about effort at Kwara United

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Uche Jaguar was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

Somtochuwku Ezenabo stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Somtochuwku Ezenabo and Kwara United agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Alege Mahee in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Kwara United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Nobody at Kwara United has picked up the phone to Adeshina Gata

48 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.

The dugout

Shehu Moffi: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Somtochuwku Ezenabo

“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.

In brief