From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market11 Jun 2029
“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.
Squad11 Jun 2029
“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.
Squad11 Jun 2029
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at New Edubiase United, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Boardroom30 Apr 2029
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Market30 Apr 2029
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around New Edubiase United they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad30 Apr 2029
The medical room confirms 29 days on the sidelines for Umar Muhammad, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad30 Apr 2029
A season average of 7.04 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. New Edubiase United know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
Squad30 Apr 2029
“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.
Market30 Apr 2029
The Amr Saleh talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. New Edubiase United know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Boardroom21 Aug 2028
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Squad21 Aug 2028
The manager makes an example of Kennedy Ochieng
“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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Boardroom7 Aug 2028
Abdul Partey has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at New Edubiase United can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Squad7 Aug 2028
“The easiest signature of my career.” Chinedu Onah and New Edubiase United agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad7 Aug 2028
Oshobe Oladele knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at New Edubiase United, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market7 Aug 2028
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Boardroom7 Aug 2028
The money that was there in the summer is not there now. Nobody upstairs calls this a change of ambition, and everybody downstairs reads it as one.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Boardroom24 Jul 2028
The silence upstairs is getting loud at New Edubiase United
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Market24 Jul 2028
“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.
Squad24 Jul 2028
29 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market12 Jun 2028
$930.0K from Hearts of Oak for Benard Mundi. Money is money, but the dressing room has lost the man it looked to.
Market12 Jun 2028
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what New Edubiase United can pretend not to have heard.
Squad12 Jun 2028
The manager makes an example of Oshobe Oladele
“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.
Market12 Jun 2028
Umar Muhammad is 20, and New Edubiase United have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Squad12 Jun 2028
Adams Sanut knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at New Edubiase United, and both men came out saying it was fine.