Abdullahi Umar

Right Midfielder - Enyimba U18
15 Sep 2031
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Marked for Abdullahi Umar

222 Edition

The Enyimba Sentinel

28 Oct 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

Market28 Oct 2030

Christian Chibuzor 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 Enyimba can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout28 Oct 2030

Seyi Adegbite keeps the receipts

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

Market28 Oct 2030

Moloko Nape has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Enyimba they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad28 Oct 2030

A falling-out at Enyimba

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

Squad28 Oct 2030

Jonathan Jacob 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.

The dugout28 Oct 2030

Jonathan Jacob gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad28 Oct 2030

Too much change too quickly at Enyimba

5 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

Squad28 Oct 2030

Abdullahi Umar signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Abdullahi Umar commits to Enyimba for another 3 years.

The dugout28 Oct 2030

Kelvin Ogunga has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Enyimba 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.

In brief

Back issues
220 Edition

The Enyimba Sentinel

14 Oct 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

Market14 Oct 2030

Ibrahim Collins puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Enyimba, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market14 Oct 2030

Ethan Garcia has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Enyimba they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Boardroom14 Oct 2030

Moloko Nape has agreed to leave Enyimba for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Squad14 Oct 2030

Joel Ezra signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Joel Ezra and Enyimba agree another 5 years.

Squad14 Oct 2030

Kelvin Akinmola 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 Enyimba this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market14 Oct 2030

One of our own: Abdullahi Umar joins the Enyimba first team

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

Market14 Oct 2030

One of our own: Leon Musa joins the Enyimba first team

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

Loan watch14 Oct 2030

Aminu Yusuf counts the days

“I watch every Enyimba game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Kano Pillars runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

The dugout14 Oct 2030

Sama'ila Bello has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Enyimba 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.

In brief

  • Squad A row about effort at Enyimba
  • Match Enyimba in the hunt for Europe
  • Squad A wage question at Enyimba