Bright Sadiq

Goalkeeper - Shooting Stars
24 Oct 2032
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The Shooting Stars Gazette

27 Sep 2032
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom27 Sep 2032

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Shooting Stars

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Squad27 Sep 2032

Adam Mustapha 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 Shooting Stars this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad27 Sep 2032

No hiding place for Aaron Olanare

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Aaron Olanare, and the manager let it.

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The Shooting Stars Gazette

6 Jan 2031
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad6 Jan 2031

A knee injury of the worst kind for Muyiwa Balogun

40 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Shooting Stars lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad6 Jan 2031

Tempers go at Shooting Stars

Aaron Olanare 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.

Boardroom6 Jan 2031

Graduation day at Shooting Stars

7 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.

Player ratings6 Jan 2031

Nobody could get near Adam Mustapha

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

Market6 Jan 2031

Warri Wolves join the queue for Olayinka Obi

Add another name to the list: Warri Wolves have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Olayinka Obi. The answer from Shooting Stars has not changed — yet.

Market6 Jan 2031

Bright Sadiq steps up from the Shooting Stars academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Bright Sadiq has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market6 Jan 2031

One of our own: Akinkunmi Ekong joins the Shooting Stars first team

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

Market6 Jan 2031

Shooting Stars promote Ebere Olagunju from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ebere Olagunju 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.

Squad6 Jan 2031

Shooting Stars pick somebody else ahead of Ebuka Anthony

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

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