The Shooting Stars Gazette
Market11 Oct 2027
Promise Awosanmi asks to leave Shooting Stars
“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.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Words at Shooting Stars training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Temple Emekayi 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
Qamar Adegoke 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.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
No hiding place for Abayomi Adebayo
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Abayomi Adebayo, and the manager let it.
Market11 Oct 2027
Shooting Stars and Qamar Adegoke are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
Issa Yusuf knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Issa Yusuf trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
Promise Awosanmi has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Shooting Stars 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.
Market11 Oct 2027
The shop window has Issa Yusuf in it
Shooting Stars have let the market know Issa Yusuf can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
Market11 Oct 2027
The Monsoor Saleh talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Shooting Stars know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
In brief
- Squad Charles Ribannu has had enough of the bench
- The dugout The manager comes out for Promise Awosanmi
- Squad Peter Sadiq is fit again