The Inter Allies Gazette
Squad7 Jun 2027
A fracture rules Kabiru Murtala out for 90 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Inter Allies will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market7 Jun 2027
Maxwell Azafokpe 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 The request is on a desk at Inter Allies, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad7 Jun 2027
A falling-out at Inter Allies
Musa Afeez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Salim Adams 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.
The dugout7 Jun 2027
The manager makes an example of Adeyemo Bolaji
“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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Ikenna Motors slips down the pecking order
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Ikenna Motors is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
Market7 Jun 2027
Still no ink between Inter Allies and Musa Afeez
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Inter Allies, another week without a signature from Musa Afeez.
Market7 Jun 2027
No place for Jonathan Mairiga in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Jonathan Mairiga has his answer from Inter Allies; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
The dugout7 Jun 2027
James Adeniyi 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 James Adeniyi trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
- Boardroom Open for business: Inter Allies enter the window
- The dugout The manager makes Henry Ndedi a promise
- The dugout Robert Lartey keeps his manager's vote