The KCB Chronicle
Squad8 Dec 2031
Gideon Werre breaks a bone — 121 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 121 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
The dugout8 Dec 2031
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Market8 Dec 2031
James Rupia has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around KCB they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad8 Dec 2031
Words exchanged at KCB
Kelvin Etemesi and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad8 Dec 2031
Nashon Wekesa 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.
Boardroom8 Dec 2031
Wages eat 89% of everything KCB earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
The dugout8 Dec 2031
Nashon Wekesa has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at KCB 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.
The dugout8 Dec 2031
Robert Adokwe asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Market8 Dec 2031
Patrick Otieno linked with a move away
The name of Patrick Otieno keeps appearing in other people's back pages. KCB say nothing, which says plenty.
In brief
- Squad A season on the outside for Nicholas Manyama
- The dugout The manager comes out for Clinton Olunga