The Shooting Stars Gazette
Boardroom8 Jan 2029
Kelechi Balogun is out at Shooting Stars
Four paragraphs on the club website, none of them about football. The board thanked him, wished him well, and had the search under way before the page went up.
Squad8 Jan 2029
A knee injury of the worst kind for Jamiu Amusat
19 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Shooting Stars lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Boardroom8 Jan 2029
Bright Lookman steps up at Shooting Stars for now
“Somebody picks the team on Saturday. This week it is me, and that is as far as I have thought.” No promises were made in either direction, which is how these usually begin.
Market8 Jan 2029
Elkanah Godgift puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Shooting Stars, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings8 Jan 2029
Mfon Rowland ran the middle of the pitch — 6.55
He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 15 combined actions and a mark of 6.55, and not one of them will make a highlights package.
Transfer targets8 Jan 2029
Shooting Stars bid $86.0K for Isiaq Rasaq
The offer went to Bayelsa United this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Squad8 Jan 2029
Abubakar Taheer 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 Shooting Stars this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom8 Jan 2029
Graduation day at Shooting Stars
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Market8 Jan 2029
Tijani Adeloju attracts admirers
The name of Tijani Adeloju has come up in conversations Shooting Stars were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
In brief
- Squad Monsoor Saleh stays put
- Match Shooting Stars come up short against Barau
- Market One of our own: David Bassey joins the Shooting Stars first team