Umar Okoye

Striker - Rangers International
19 Feb 2027
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Marked for Umar Okoye

27 Edition

The Rangers International Courier

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match30 Jan 2027

James Emo drives the Rangers International comeback

2 behind and going nowhere, until James Emo decided otherwise. Plateau United had done the hard part and then watched it come apart, and the noise at the final whistle was the sort a ground keeps.

Squad1 Feb 2027

A day James Emo will not forget

3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.

Market1 Feb 2027

Terms done: Umar Okoye is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Gor Mahia waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Rangers International is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Market1 Feb 2027

Daniel Monday asks to leave Rangers International

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Boardroom1 Feb 2027

Rangers International close the window on a squad of their own making

3 in and 0 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Player ratings1 Feb 2027

Ganiyu Gberefu runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match30 Jan 2027

Rangers International make it 3 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Rangers International have 3 straight wins of it.

Squad1 Feb 2027

James Emo 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 Rangers International this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings1 Feb 2027

A masterclass from James Emo

Marked 9.95 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

In brief

Back issues
25 Edition

The Rangers International Courier

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

The dugout18 Jan 2027

Daniel Itodo: 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.” Rangers International have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Player ratings18 Jan 2027

Ganiyu Gberefu runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Transfer targets18 Jan 2027

The paperwork begins on Salisu Ibrahim

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Rangers International have done the hard part with El-Kanemi Warriors, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Market18 Jan 2027

Rangers International turn down Gor Mahia for Umar Okoye

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad18 Jan 2027

Words exchanged at Rangers International

James Emo 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.

Transfer targets18 Jan 2027

Door shut on Don-Pedro Samuel

Rangers International asked and Bayelsa United said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Match16 Jan 2027

Rangers International see off Niger Tornadoes

Three points for Rangers International, 2‑1 the final word against Niger Tornadoes in a contest settled by the finer margins.

The terraces18 Jan 2027

The crowd has taken to Chidiebere Nwobodo

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Player ratings18 Jan 2027

Ninety minutes of Uwana Asuquo at his very best

Marked 8.16. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Rangers International.

In brief

24 Edition

The Rangers International Courier

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings11 Jan 2027

Ganiyu Gberefu runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 35. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market11 Jan 2027

Rangers International turn down El-Kanemi Warriors for Waheed Adebayo

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad11 Jan 2027

Tempers go at Rangers International

James Emo 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.

Transfer targets11 Jan 2027

El-Kanemi Warriors tell Rangers International: Salisu Ibrahim is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Match9 Jan 2027

A bad afternoon for Rangers International against Nasarawa United

0‑2 to Nasarawa United, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Market11 Jan 2027

Umar Okoye attracts admirers

The name of Umar Okoye has come up in conversations Rangers International were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad11 Jan 2027

Chimobi Igwilo signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Chimobi Igwilo commits to Rangers International for another 4 years.

The dugout11 Jan 2027

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑2 Chidera Ogunjobi left the room before anybody could ask which.

Transfer targets11 Jan 2027

A loan move for Bassey John is in the works

Rangers International have made the call to Enyimba. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

In brief