The Bendel Insurance Post
Market4 Jan 2027
Seikorowei Preye hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Bendel Insurance can pretend not to have heard.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Bendel Insurance
Muritala Lawal was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Boardroom4 Jan 2027
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Bendel Insurance
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Market4 Jan 2027
Wikki Tourists watching Efe Obiomo
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Bendel Insurance have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Bendel Insurance count the cost of losing Stephen Chukwude
72 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Match2 Jan 2027
Bendel Insurance cannot find the net
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Market4 Jan 2027
Bright Ndidi steps up from the Bendel Insurance academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Bright Ndidi has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market4 Jan 2027
One of our own: Moses Akinola joins the Bendel Insurance first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Moses Akinola is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Nobody could get near Chinedu Nwosu
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
In brief
- Squad Emmanuel Ofori stays put
- Squad Words at Bendel Insurance training over how hard people work
- Boardroom Bendel Insurance turn down the training-ground plan