The El-Kanemi Warriors Courier
Market14 Feb 2028
Usman Abubakar has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around El-Kanemi Warriors they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Words at El-Kanemi Warriors training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tobi Alagbe 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.
Transfer targets14 Feb 2028
The window shuts on the Godwin Dede deal
El-Kanemi Warriors ran out of time with Enyimba. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Words exchanged at El-Kanemi Warriors
David Idaiye and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad14 Feb 2028
El-Kanemi Warriors count the cost of losing Ifeanyi Ogunjobi
32 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Player ratings14 Feb 2028
The afternoon belonged to Destiny Ilahude
A mark of 7.82, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Market14 Feb 2028
Kelvin Osas is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at El-Kanemi Warriors has been clear about where Kelvin Osas stands, which is more than many ever get.
Match12 Feb 2028
Honours even between El-Kanemi Warriors and Warri Wolves
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout14 Feb 2028
No hiding place for David Idaiye
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to David Idaiye, and the manager let it.
In brief
- The dugout Wilfred Onyekuru: “We have to be better”
- The dugout The form table has caught David Damboama
- The dugout Usman Abbas has become a man the manager trusts