Austin Daniel

Right Midfielder - Bayelsa United
27 Feb 2027
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Marked for Austin Daniel

30 Edition

The Bayelsa United Courier

22 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market22 Feb 2027

Austin Daniel puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Bayelsa United, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings22 Feb 2027

Nupe Godstime runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 28. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad22 Feb 2027

A falling-out at Bayelsa United

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

Squad22 Feb 2027

Chinedu Onyinjekwu is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.33 with 9 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Player ratings22 Feb 2027

Chinedu Onyinjekwu in the eights

A performance of 8.06 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Match20 Feb 2027

Bayelsa United refuse to lose to Shooting Stars

A point taken on 86 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.

The dugout22 Feb 2027

Austin Daniel 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.

Match20 Feb 2027

Bayelsa United and Shooting Stars take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

The dugout22 Feb 2027

The manager’s verdict

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

In brief

Back issues
25 Edition

The Bayelsa United Courier

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad18 Jan 2027

A one-man rearguard from Godwin Akpobolouka

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Transfer targets18 Jan 2027

The paperwork begins on Chibueze Lambert

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Bayelsa United have done the hard part with Warri Wolves, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Player ratings18 Jan 2027

Nupe Godstime beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 23. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad18 Jan 2027

Words exchanged at Bayelsa United

Gabriel Biriduba 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.

Squad18 Jan 2027

Austin Daniel 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.

Match16 Jan 2027

Bayelsa United come up short against El-Kanemi Warriors

El-Kanemi Warriors left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout18 Jan 2027

Chidozie Ogu faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Chidozie Ogu after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

Squad18 Jan 2027

Stanley Amon is the weekend's best young player

At 20 he is being measured against the rest of the division's kids and coming out in front. The senior version of this award is where the club would like this to lead.

The dugout18 Jan 2027

When it matters, Stanley Amon 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.

In brief

24 Edition

The Bayelsa United Courier

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings11 Jan 2027

Chinedu Onyinjekwu scores twice — 9.06

Two goals and a mark of 9.06 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market11 Jan 2027

Don-Pedro Samuel agrees terms with Warri Wolves

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Bayelsa United people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Match9 Jan 2027

Bayelsa United strike at the death to beat Plateau United

There were 85 minutes on the clock and Plateau United had all but banked the point. Football rarely reads the room, and Bayelsa United did not stop to explain themselves.

Market11 Jan 2027

Stanley Amon turns Rivers United down

“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.

Player ratings11 Jan 2027

Nupe Godstime was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 27. 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.

Player ratings11 Jan 2027

No sign of nerves from Stanley Amon at 20 — 7.71

The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Stanley Amon did not need any: 7.71, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Squad11 Jan 2027

Tempers go at Bayelsa United

Gabriel Biriduba 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.

Match9 Jan 2027

Bayelsa United find a way past Plateau United

Plateau United made Bayelsa United work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑2 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad11 Jan 2027

Words at Bayelsa United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Austin Daniel 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.

In brief