The deal with Muranga Seal is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
AFC Leopards paid $41.0K and Nairobi United took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Gor Mahia have kept their man, and Nairobi United go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
100 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.
In brief
Player ratingsEnock Momanyi beats them one at a time
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and John Njuguna obliged against APS Bomet. 2‑1 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Nairobi United.
The 88th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and John Njuguna decided nobody was going anywhere. APS Bomet had no time left to answer.
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.10 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
The offer from APS Bomet for David Wafula was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
$32.0K was the most the club would pay and Plateau United 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.
Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Thomas Omole from Tusker for $140.0K, and a ticket office having a very good morning.
Supporters turn on the $140.0K sale of Thomas Omole
He is going to Nairobi United, the club has $140.0K it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.
The deal with Kenya Police is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Tusker have gone to Gor Mahia 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.
Tusker offered $360.0K; Plateau United said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Nairobi United pay $140.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: David Polepole. 3‑1 against Muranga Seal, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. David Polepole has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
The name of Edwin Simiyu has come up in conversations Tusker were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Nairobi United have gone to Tusker 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.
$32.0K on the table at Plateau United. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Prince Buregeya 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.
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Caleb Karisa is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Duncan Kibwage is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Patrick Ayumba has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Eric Kapaito wins it after the whistle should have gone
91 minutes played. Eric Kapaito found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Kariobangi Sharks went from a point to nothing inside one movement.
0 on the scoresheet on his first appearance and a mark of 7.98 beside it. Most debuts are got through; this one was enjoyed, by him and by everybody watching it.
Tusker have gone to Plateau United 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.
Three points for Tusker, 3‑2 the final word against Kariobangi Sharks in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Eric Kapaito was on a different afternoon to everybody else
9.51. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Dinamo Moscow have kept their man, and Tusker go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
He is 20 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.