The Rangers International Courier
Market12 Feb 2029
Ikechukwu Mgbemena 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.
Market12 Feb 2029
Ikechukwu Mgbemena is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Rangers International is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Match10 Feb 2029
Rangers International make home a hard place to visit
10 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.
Squad12 Feb 2029
Words exchanged at Rangers International
Bassey John 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.
Match10 Feb 2029
Rangers International see off El-Kanemi Warriors
Three points for Rangers International, 3‑1 the final word against El-Kanemi Warriors in a contest settled by the finer margins.
The terraces12 Feb 2029
The crowd has taken to Kwadwo Owusu
At 21 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.
The dugout12 Feb 2029
Ifeanyi Okechukwu gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings12 Feb 2029
Ganiyu Gberefu was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.02. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad12 Feb 2029
Bright Eze stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Bright Eze and Rangers International agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
In brief
- The dugout The view from the dugout
- Squad A first senior shirt for Bright Eze
- Market The Bassey John question follows Rangers International around