The Mathare United Sentinel
Market25 Jan 2027
Afrique Foot Elite come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Mathare United did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
The paperwork begins on Elvis Ochoro
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Mathare United have done the hard part with KCB, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Boardroom25 Jan 2027
Mathare United beat the market to Derrick Otieno from Shabana
Shabana will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Derrick Otieno has pre-agreed a move to Mathare United, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Sifiso Molefe 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 Mathare United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Alex Warai signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Alex Warai commits to Mathare United for another 3 years.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
Kevin Ouru is still paying for one afternoon at Mathare United
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Jacob Onyango 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 dugout25 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Alex Warai
“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.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
When it matters, Musa Masika 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
- The dugout John Nyawir knocks on the manager’s door
- Market The Victor Omune talk will not go away
- Squad Isaac Omweri: “I am not a substitute”