The Shabana Post
Player ratings7 Feb 2033
Ezekiah Omuri was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 29. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Market7 Feb 2033
Amr Fathy 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 Shabana can pretend not to have heard.
The dugout7 Feb 2033
James Mazembe says Shabana 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.
Boardroom7 Feb 2033
Window shuts: 6 in, 1 out at Shabana
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 6 arrived, 1 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Market7 Feb 2033
The Mara Sugar deal is off
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Nicholas Njeru reports back to Shabana with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Squad7 Feb 2033
Maxwell Mulili 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 Shabana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom7 Feb 2033
Graduation day at Shabana
6 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.
Boardroom7 Feb 2033
The numbers do not look good at Shabana
Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.
Squad7 Feb 2033
Ezekiah Omuri 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.
In brief
- Match Kariobangi Sharks take the points off Shabana
- Market Peter Chemelil steps up from the Shabana academy
- Market Shabana promote Eric Owusu from within