Sam Lockyer

Goalkeeper - Bayelsa United
17 Sep 2028
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The Bayelsa United Courier

11 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match9 Sep 2028

4 matches without a win for Bayelsa United

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

Boardroom11 Sep 2028

Bayelsa United to lose Peter Ebimobowei for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Peter Ebimobowei has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Squad11 Sep 2028

Gabriel Biriduba 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 Bayelsa United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad11 Sep 2028

Eyong Ofem 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.

Squad11 Sep 2028

Eyong Ofem 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.

Market11 Sep 2028

Bayelsa United sign Sam Lockyer, one for the future

Sam Lockyer is 18, and Bayelsa United have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

Squad11 Sep 2028

Sam Lockyer stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Sam Lockyer and Bayelsa United agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Match9 Sep 2028

Bayelsa United draw a blank against Nasarawa United

The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Nasarawa United defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.

Player ratings11 Sep 2028

John Taiwo could not find anything

5.65. Every footballer has these and most of them happen away from a full ground; his did not, and he will be aware of that all week.

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The Binga Herald

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad23 Aug 2027

A fracture rules Juan Manuel Fernández out for 64 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Binga will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad23 Aug 2027

Real improvement from Yomi Ayodeji at Binga

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Yomi Ayodeji is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad23 Aug 2027

Tempers go at Binga

Yacine Wakili 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.

Squad23 Aug 2027

A late step up for Massiré Gassama

At 27 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

Market23 Aug 2027

Binga buy the years ahead of Sam Lockyer

He is 17, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

Market23 Aug 2027

Ezechiel Allamine brings the grey hairs Binga lacked

At 35, he has seen every situation this season can produce, twice. The legs will be managed; the head is the purchase.

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55 Edition

The Canterbury United Gazette

16 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad16 Aug 2027

A fracture rules Jake De Vries out for 50 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Canterbury United will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market16 Aug 2027

Canterbury United turn down WaiBOP United for Stefan Just

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad16 Aug 2027

Joe Just is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

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