Marked for Harrison Mohammed
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market11 Oct 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Remo Stars they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Words at Remo Stars training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Antonio Galeano is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad11 Oct 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Segun Owoade commits to Remo Stars for another 3 years.
Loan watch11 Oct 2027
“I did not go to El-Kanemi Warriors to sit and watch. I want to come back to Remo Stars and fight for my place.” 1 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
Loan watch11 Oct 2027
28 appearances away from home and 10 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Harrison Mohammed 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.
Market11 Oct 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Biola Sabitu’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Market11 Oct 2027
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
Qudus Akanni gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Qudus Akanni is on it.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Market23 Aug 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market23 Aug 2027
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Remo Stars people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Adama Goïta, 21, steals the show — 7.63
Marked 7.63 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
The dugout23 Aug 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Remo Stars may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market23 Aug 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Remo Stars they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
Remo Stars have gone to Shooting Stars with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Jabu Mokone 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.
Match21 Aug 2027
A goal on 91 minutes turned three points into one and a good afternoon into an argument about game management that will run until Saturday.
Squad23 Aug 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Remo Stars this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Steady
Market28 Jun 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Remo Stars can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom28 Jun 2027
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $27.8K — a club that wants Daniel Monday enough to be asked twice.
Transfer targets28 Jun 2027
$25.0K was the most the club would pay and Rangers International were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Words at Remo Stars training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ahmed Akinyele is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout28 Jun 2027
Biola Sabitu 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.
Match26 Jun 2027
A 2‑2 draw with Nasarawa United leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Squad28 Jun 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Remo Stars this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets28 Jun 2027
Flamengo have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Market28 Jun 2027
Bayelsa United are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Remo Stars will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market11 Jan 2027
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Remo Stars have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Chaka Coulibaly is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Remo Stars have gone to Shooting Stars with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Harrison Mohammed has just signed for Remo Stars, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Ahmed Akinyele 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.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Nasarawa United have kept their man, and Remo Stars go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Hadi Haruna and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Marked 7.97. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Match9 Jan 2027
It needed Adama Goïta to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Barau, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.