Jamilu Osimhen

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The El-Kanemi Warriors Courier

15 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad15 Mar 2027

The knee: Iniekade Timitimi out for 81 days

81 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. El-Kanemi Warriors lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad15 Mar 2027

A one-man rearguard from Hakeem Otuyiga

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Player ratings15 Mar 2027

Joseph Timi goes up and wins it — 7.64

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.64 for the rest of it.

The dugout15 Mar 2027

Jamilu Osimhen: 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.” El-Kanemi Warriors have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad15 Mar 2027

Words exchanged at El-Kanemi Warriors

Edmund Atiemo 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.

Squad15 Mar 2027

Ibrahim Iddrisu 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.

The dugout15 Mar 2027

No hiding place for Ebuka Akobundu

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

Market15 Mar 2027

Talks stall between El-Kanemi Warriors and Ibrahim Iddrisu

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

Player ratings15 Mar 2027

Friday Ubong was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 15. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

In brief

Back issues
31 Edition

The El-Kanemi Warriors Courier

1 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad1 Mar 2027

Iniekade Timitimi damages knee ligaments — 96 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 96 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad1 Mar 2027

Words exchanged at El-Kanemi Warriors

David Andrew 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.

Boardroom1 Mar 2027

The numbers do not look good at El-Kanemi Warriors

Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.

Squad1 Mar 2027

Ibrahim Iddrisu 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.

Match27 Feb 2027

El-Kanemi Warriors come up short against Barau

Barau left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Market1 Mar 2027

Still no ink between El-Kanemi Warriors and Friday Ubong

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at El-Kanemi Warriors, another week without a signature from Friday Ubong.

Squad1 Mar 2027

Jamilu Osimhen signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jamilu Osimhen commits to El-Kanemi Warriors for another 3 years.

The dugout1 Mar 2027

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Ola Kalu to a room that had heard them before.

The dugout1 Mar 2027

The form table has caught Ibrahim Iddrisu

Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.

In brief