The Bendel Insurance Post
Market19 Feb 2029
Onyia Henry asks to leave Bendel Insurance
“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.
Market19 Feb 2029
Only the photograph left for Uche Collins
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Uche Collins will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Bendel Insurance the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match17 Feb 2029
5 matches without a win for Bendel Insurance
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Bendel Insurance are no longer polite ones.
Squad19 Feb 2029
Oke Kayode 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 Bendel Insurance this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets19 Feb 2029
Door shut on Victor Udoh
Bendel Insurance asked and Hapoel Beer Sheva said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The dugout19 Feb 2029
Oke Kayode 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.
Squad19 Feb 2029
Bright Ogunjobi signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Bright Ogunjobi and Bendel Insurance agree another 3 years.
The dugout19 Feb 2029
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Olayinka Moffi was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Bendel Insurance dressing room was either.
Squad19 Feb 2029
Olayiwola Abdulmalik 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.
In brief
- The dugout Elmer Arunta gets picked when it counts
- Player ratings Alex Oweilayefa beats them one at a time
- Match Point won or two lost for Bendel Insurance?