The Tusker Post
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
A brace, and Victor Mbaoma takes the afternoon — 8.31
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Victor Mbaoma provided it, and the 8.31 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market8 Feb 2027
Eugene Ikutwa has said yes to Mara Sugar
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Tusker have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market8 Feb 2027
Alex Onchwari asks to leave Tusker
“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.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Nobody could get near Siyabonga Mabena
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match6 Feb 2027
Whatever happens, Tusker do not lose
8 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
Tusker tie Michael Manyama down
A new deal for the man in the dugout, and the clearest thing a board can say without calling a press conference about it. Stability is cheap to promise and expensive to deliver.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
Graduation day at Tusker
4 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.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Door shut on Charles Ouma
Tusker asked and Kenya Police said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match6 Feb 2027
Tusker find a way past Posta Rangers
Posta Rangers made Tusker work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
In brief
- Market Tusker promote Patrick Miheso from within
- Market One of our own: Elvis Olunga joins the Tusker first team
- Squad Words exchanged at Tusker