Oche Umar

Striker - Bendel Insurance
23 Jun 2031
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Marked for Oche Umar

211 Edition

The Bendel Insurance Post

12 Aug 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

Market12 Aug 2030

Emmanuel Anning 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 The request is on a desk at Bendel Insurance, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market12 Aug 2030

Bendel Insurance say no — this time

The offer from Kano Pillars for Efe Obiomo 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.

Match10 Aug 2030

No end in sight to Bendel Insurance's wait for a win

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

Squad12 Aug 2030

Tempers go at Bendel Insurance

Wisdom Udom 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.

Player ratings12 Aug 2030

Nobody could get near Wisdom Udom

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad12 Aug 2030

Saturday Erimuya 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.

Market12 Aug 2030

Katsina United are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Bendel Insurance will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Squad12 Aug 2030

Oche Umar signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Oche Umar and Bendel Insurance agree another 3 years.

Market12 Aug 2030

Bendel Insurance buy the years ahead of Bilal Bennacer

He is 17, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

In brief

Back issues
210 Edition

The Bendel Insurance Post

5 Aug 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market5 Aug 2030

Bendel Insurance say no — this time

The offer from Cádiz for Peter Ademola 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.

Market5 Aug 2030

Emmanuel Akpan 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 Bendel Insurance, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings5 Aug 2030

Wisdom Udom runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market5 Aug 2030

Promise Anyanwu attracts admirers

The name of Promise Anyanwu has come up in conversations Bendel Insurance were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad5 Aug 2030

Wisdom Udom 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 Bendel Insurance this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match3 Aug 2030

Rivers United take the points off Bendel Insurance

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

In brief