The Mathare United Sentinel
Market10 Aug 2026
Terms done: Donald Ange Paterne is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Posta Rangers waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Mathare United is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Age has not caught John Makwatta yet — 8.14
At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.14 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Victor Omune signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Victor Omune commits to Mathare United for another 2 years.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
John Macharia was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 22. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Victor Omune 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 Mathare United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
AFC Leopards tell Mathare United: Cleo Ssetuba is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Match8 Aug 2026
John Makwatta sends Mathare United past APS Bomet
It finished 2‑1, and it was John Makwatta’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Mathare United.
Market10 Aug 2026
Mathare United promote Timothy Miheso from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Timothy Miheso has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
Mathare United promote Michael Masika from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Michael Masika has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
In brief
- Market Kevin Okoth steps up from the Mathare United academy
- Squad Mathare United count the cost of losing Donald Ange Paterne
- Transfer targets Mathare United ask about Bryson Jerome