Yusuf Umar

Central Midfielder - Katsina United U18
15 Feb 2027
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Marked for Yusuf Umar

25 Edition

The Katsina United Herald

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market18 Jan 2027

Yusuf Umar hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Katsina United can pretend not to have heard.

Match16 Jan 2027

5 matches without a win for Katsina United

The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Katsina United are no longer polite ones.

Player ratings18 Jan 2027

Sani Faisal was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 24. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Transfer targets18 Jan 2027

An offer of $260.0K for Godwin Akpo

Katsina United have gone to Barau with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Transfer targets18 Jan 2027

Too dear: Katsina United walk away from Ezekiel Oroh

$350.0K was the most the club would pay and Warri Wolves were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Squad18 Jan 2027

Words at Katsina United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Oscar Iheanacho 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.

Market18 Jan 2027

Eyes on Daniel Agara again

The phone has started ringing about Daniel Agara again, and this time the name on the line is Medeama. Katsina United are listening politely and promising nothing.

Player ratings18 Jan 2027

Uche Collins in the eights

A performance of 8.21 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad18 Jan 2027

Words exchanged at Katsina United

Joshua Enaholo 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.

In brief

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7 Edition

The Katsina United Herald

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Michael Okoro runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Sani Faisal 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.

Match12 Sep 2026

Wikki Tourists snatch it back from Katsina United

A goal on 91 minutes turned three points into one and a good afternoon into an argument about game management that will run until Saturday.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Katsina United are still strangers to each other

7 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

An own goal to forget for Abu Tatu

The one goal a footballer does not get to celebrate and does not get to forget either. His name is in the wrong column and nothing about it was meant.

Match12 Sep 2026

Honours even between Katsina United and Wikki Tourists

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Squad14 Sep 2026

The formation has left Don-Pedro Samuel behind

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

The dugout14 Sep 2026

The manager’s verdict

“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Alex Akinola was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Katsina United dressing room was either.

The dugout14 Sep 2026

Samson Obi 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 Samson Obi trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief