The Kakamega Homeboyz Sentinel
The dugout12 Nov 2029
Ibrahim Wanzala says Kakamega Homeboyz went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market12 Nov 2029
Only the photograph left for Ben Saul
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ben Saul will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Kakamega Homeboyz the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad12 Nov 2029
Joshua Nyatini 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.
Squad12 Nov 2029
Charles Momanyi 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.
Market12 Nov 2029
Josephat Lopaga linked with a move away
The name of Josephat Lopaga keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Kakamega Homeboyz say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout12 Nov 2029
Ibrahim Wanzala has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Kakamega Homeboyz will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout12 Nov 2029
Comfort Ngubo has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Comfort Ngubo has written the date down.
Squad12 Nov 2029
Questions about Lewis Sandford on the training pitch
The standards have slipped, and in a building where everybody watches everybody it has not gone unremarked. This is how a player loses a place before he loses one.
The dugout12 Nov 2029
The manager comes out for Rodgers Ouma
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Rodgers Ouma has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
In brief
- Boardroom The Kakamega Homeboyz production line keeps running
- Squad Ronwen Lorch has settled at Kakamega Homeboyz