The El-Kanemi Warriors Courier
Market8 Jan 2029
Yakubu Abbas asks to leave El-Kanemi Warriors
“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.
Boardroom8 Jan 2029
A new deal for Wilfred Onyekuru
The board have signed the man in the dugout to a longer contract, which says more than any statement of support. Stability is easy to promise and costly to keep.
Squad8 Jan 2029
El-Kanemi Warriors count the cost of losing Godspower Akekoromowei
14 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad8 Jan 2029
A falling-out at El-Kanemi Warriors
Tobi Alagbe and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom8 Jan 2029
Graduation day at El-Kanemi Warriors
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.
The dugout8 Jan 2029
Godwin Oham frozen out at El-Kanemi Warriors
This is not rotation. Godwin Oham has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at El-Kanemi Warriors is pretending otherwise.
Transfer targets8 Jan 2029
Door shut on Gimba Ajiji
El-Kanemi Warriors asked and Plateau 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.
Squad8 Jan 2029
Words at El-Kanemi Warriors training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Waliu Ojetoye 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.
Market8 Jan 2029
El-Kanemi Warriors promote Jamilu Umar from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Jamilu Umar 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 El-Kanemi Warriors promote Gabriel Onuachu from within
- Market One of our own: Ademola Bassey joins the El-Kanemi Warriors first team
- Boardroom A promise the El-Kanemi Warriors board did not keep