Abdullahi Eguavoen

Left Forward - Remo Stars
3 Mar 2030
Sunday
Process

Marked for Abdullahi Eguavoen

138 Edition

The Remo Stars Herald

19 Mar 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Whatever happens, Remo Stars do not lose

12 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Market

Hosea Michael 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 Remo Stars can pretend not to have heard.

Match

The run at home goes on for Remo Stars

12 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.

The dugout

Goforth Amedu 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.

Market

Gabriel Caliste has one foot out of the door

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

Squad

Words at Remo Stars training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ali Abdullahi 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Ali Abdullahi

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Player ratings

One of those days for Antonio Galeano

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.44, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad

A falling-out at Remo Stars

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

In brief

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The Remo Stars Herald

24 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Samuel Anakwe sends Remo Stars through

Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Samuel Anakwe obliged against Warri Wolves. 2‑1 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Remo Stars.

Player ratings

Abdullahi Eguavoen, 18, steals the show — 7.89

Marked 7.89 at 18, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Match

Remo Stars make home a hard place to visit

12 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

The dugout

Qudus Akanni: 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.

Match

Nobody wants to play Remo Stars right now

4 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Player ratings

Ibrahim Obansa pops up at the right end — 7.59

7.59, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.

Squad

Tempers go at Remo Stars

Ali Abdullahi 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

Adama Goïta sends Remo Stars past Kano Pillars

It finished 3‑2, and it was Adama Goïta’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Remo Stars.

The terraces

One of their own: Adama Goïta

He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

In brief