Michael Mulee

Right Midfielder - Ulinzi Stars
3 Jan 2030
Thursday
Process

Marked for Michael Mulee

154 Edition

The Ulinzi Stars Courier

9 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout

Michael Mulee keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Ulinzi Stars may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Player ratings

Boniface Muchiri runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Stan Sargent

Ulinzi Stars asked and Mathare United said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

A row about effort at Ulinzi Stars

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Boniface Andayi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

A falling-out at Ulinzi Stars

Alex Imbusia and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

Paul Odhiambo answers KCB immediately

Conceding is one thing; the response is what tells you about a dressing room. Paul Odhiambo had Ulinzi Stars level again within 2 minutes, and KCB never got to play with a lead at all.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Bonaventure Muchika

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Transfer targets

Ulinzi Stars try to borrow Aron Kithae

Shabana have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Match

Ulinzi Stars and KCB take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

In brief

Back issues
132 Edition

The Ulinzi Stars Courier

5 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

Harun Kibwage is out at Ulinzi 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.

Boardroom

Nicholas Juma minds the shop at Ulinzi Stars

“I am not thinking past Saturday, and I would advise nobody else to.” The caretaker’s first rule is to pretend the job is small; Nicholas Juma recited it perfectly.

Match

Nobody wins at Ulinzi Stars

13 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

Boardroom

Ulinzi Stars close the window on a squad of their own making

6 in and 4 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Squad

A falling-out at Ulinzi Stars

Sifiso Molefe and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Ulinzi 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.

Transfer targets

Ulinzi Stars rebuffed over Lungisani Mncwabe

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Nairobi United have kept their man, and Ulinzi Stars go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

A row about effort at Ulinzi Stars

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Boniface Andayi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market

One of our own: Michael Mulee joins the Ulinzi Stars first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Michael Mulee is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief