Olisa Eze

Left Forward - Remo Stars
17 Mar 2030
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173 Edition

The Remo Stars Herald

19 Nov 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Azeez Falolu: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Remo Stars have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Tempers go at Remo Stars

Abdul Musa 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.

Squad

Words at Remo Stars training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Archange Bintsouka 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.

In brief

Back issues
163 Edition

The Remo Stars Herald

10 Sep 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Samuel Anakwe runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 42. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Olisa Eze says Remo Stars went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Match

No end in sight to Remo Stars's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Remo Stars has to find a result from somewhere.

Market

Adebayo Iwobi is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Remo Stars is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Tempers go at Remo Stars

Abdul Musa 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.

Match

3 matches without a goal for Remo Stars

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Squad

Michael Okoro 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.

Match

Remo Stars come up short against Kwara United

Kwara United left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Michael Okoro dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

In brief

128 Edition

The Remo Stars Herald

8 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Mark Gibson

Successful dribbles: 47. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

Victor Mbaoma breaks Enyimba hearts

Some goals win a match and some take one off somebody else. Victor Mbaoma scored in the 89th minute, Enyimba had already begun thinking about the journey home, and Remo Stars took the lot.

Boardroom

Shehu Akpan signs on for the long haul

Remo Stars moved before anybody else could: a new deal for Shehu Akpan, agreed quietly and announced loudly. Boards extend managers for many reasons; the good one is the one this looks like.

Market

Remo Stars say no — this time

The offer from Niger Tornadoes for John Onuachu was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad

Tempers go at Remo Stars

Abdul Musa 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.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Remo Stars

8 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.

Squad

Words at Remo Stars training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Olamilekan Adedayo 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.

Market

One of our own: Adebayo Iwobi joins the Remo Stars first team

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

Market

Remo Stars promote Ebere Madu from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ebere Madu 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