Michael Okoh

Defensive Midfielder - Bayelsa United
20 Nov 2026
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16 Edition

The Bayelsa United Courier

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout16 Nov 2026

Michael Okoh says Bayelsa United went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad16 Nov 2026

Words exchanged at Bayelsa United

Nupe Godstime 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.

Squad16 Nov 2026

Words at Bayelsa United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ikenna Benjamin 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 dugout16 Nov 2026

Saro Loveday asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

The dugout16 Nov 2026

The manager makes an example of Ebiede Jeffery

“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.

Squad16 Nov 2026

“I want to play”: Ebiede Jeffery speaks

“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.

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11 Edition

The Bayelsa United Courier

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad12 Oct 2026

A fracture rules Paebi Yungerc out for 45 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Bayelsa United will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad12 Oct 2026

A falling-out at Bayelsa United

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

Squad12 Oct 2026

Bayelsa United lose Boloutari Naamah

34 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

The dugout12 Oct 2026

Nupe Godstime asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

The dugout12 Oct 2026

No hiding place for Michael Okoh

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Michael Okoh, and the manager let it.

The dugout12 Oct 2026

Fabby Clark is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

Squad12 Oct 2026

“I want to play”: Solomon Wegba speaks

“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.

Market12 Oct 2026

The Don-Pedro Samuel talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Bayelsa United know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Loan watch12 Oct 2026

Sarpsborg 08 cannot leave Stanley Amon out

5 starts and an average of 6.52. He went there to play and he is playing, which is the only thing a loan was ever for.

In brief

10 Edition

The Bayelsa United Courier

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad5 Oct 2026

A fracture rules Paebi Yungerc out for 53 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Bayelsa United will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

The dugout5 Oct 2026

Bernard Okorowanta: 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.” Bayelsa United have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Real improvement from Michael Okoh at Bayelsa United

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Michael Okoh is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Nupe Godstime 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 Bayelsa United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Ikenna Benjamin 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.

Match3 Oct 2026

Kenneth Sheddy rescues a point for Bayelsa United

It needed Kenneth Sheddy to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Niger Tornadoes, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

The dugout5 Oct 2026

When it matters, Nupe Godstime plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout5 Oct 2026

Emmanuel Okocha: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

The dugout5 Oct 2026

Saro Loveday 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 Bayelsa United, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

8 Edition

The Bayelsa United Courier

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

No sign of nerves from Don-Pedro Samuel at 19 — 7.73

The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Don-Pedro Samuel did not need any: 7.73, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

Okardi Inikurogha 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.

The terraces21 Sep 2026

The crowd has taken to Don-Pedro Samuel

At 19 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

The dugout21 Sep 2026

No hiding place for Saro Loveday

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Saro Loveday, and the manager let it.

Match19 Sep 2026

Don-Pedro Samuel sends Bayelsa United past Abia Warriors

It finished 1‑0, and it was Don-Pedro Samuel’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Bayelsa United.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Don-Pedro Samuel 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 Bayelsa United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout21 Sep 2026

A satisfied Emmanuel Okocha

“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Emmanuel Okocha could afford to be generous.

Market21 Sep 2026

Gabriel Biriduba placed on the list

Bayelsa United have made Gabriel Biriduba available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

The dugout21 Sep 2026

Michael Okoh left out for tactical reasons at Bayelsa United

The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.

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