Marked for Samunya Amatton
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad7 Dec 2026
102 days out for Bonphas Munyasa after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. KCB will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Fortune Omoto and KCB agree another 3 years.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Tempers go at KCB
Stephen Etyang 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.
Boardroom7 Dec 2026
$234.4K on the table at KCB
The board have answered with money instead of encouragement, which is the only answer a manager ever wants. Spending it well is now entirely his problem.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at KCB training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Clyde Senaji 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.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
Morgan Billiat knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Morgan Billiat trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad30 Nov 2026
110 days out for Bonphas Munyasa after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. KCB will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market30 Nov 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Samunya Amatton: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” KCB have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A row about effort at KCB
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Morgan Billiat was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at KCB
Stephen Etyang and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
Wages swallow 104% of the KCB income
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market5 Oct 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 140% of everything KCB earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Match3 Oct 2026
A bad afternoon for KCB against Shabana
0‑1 to Shabana, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at KCB
Humphrey Mieno 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Jesse Njeru after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at KCB training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Clyde Senaji 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.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Neo Bohloko
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Neo Bohloko has come out of that comparison in the side, and KCB have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.