Ben Saul

Striker - Muranga Seal
12 Dec 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Ben Saul

5 Edition

The Kakamega Homeboyz Sentinel

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Cup progress for Kakamega Homeboyz

A 3‑1 win over Posta Rangers, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Market

Benson Mutonyi hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Kakamega Homeboyz can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Portipher Odhiambo 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 Kakamega Homeboyz this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Business is business: Ben Saul goes

Muranga Seal paid $64.0K and Kakamega Homeboyz took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Squad

Kakamega Homeboyz lose Brian Wekesa

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

Squad

Kevin Amwayi out for 81 days

The medical room confirms 81 days on the sidelines for Kevin Amwayi, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Peter Thiong'o at his very best

Marked 8.04. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Kakamega Homeboyz.

Squad

Estone Esiye gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Market

Posta Rangers are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Kakamega Homeboyz will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

In brief

Back issues
5 Edition

The Muranga Seal Chronicle

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

4 matches without a win for Muranga Seal

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Muranga Seal are no longer polite ones.

Market

Muranga Seal get their man

The chase for Ben Saul ended with $64.0K changing hands and Kakamega Homeboyz out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.

Squad

Tempers go at Muranga Seal

Elad Shahaf 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.

Player ratings

Telvin Irungu runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The terraces

Muranga Seal spend $64.0K on the signing the town wanted

It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $64.0K for Ben Saul, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Hamoudi Kalaily

“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.

Squad

7 new faces, and Muranga Seal are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

Match

Michael Wairimu rescues a point for Muranga Seal

It needed Michael Wairimu to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Nairobi United, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

Squad

When it matters, Joseph Waithira 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