The Mathare United Sentinel
Market10 Aug 2026
Terms done: Donald Ange Paterne is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Posta Rangers waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Mathare United is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The paperwork begins on David Okoth
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Mathare United have done the hard part with Gor Mahia, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Mathare United rebuffed over Samuel Kapen
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Gor Mahia have kept their man, and Mathare United go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Eric Onyango joins the Mathare United first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Eric Onyango is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Moses Muguna steps up from the Mathare United academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Moses Muguna 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Eric Nyakeya joins the Mathare United first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Eric Nyakeya is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Victor Omune signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Victor Omune commits to Mathare United for another 2 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Victor Omune 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 Mathare United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Mathare United count the cost of losing Donald Ange Paterne
14 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
In brief
- Transfer targets A loan move for Brian Musa is in the works
- The dugout George Mainge: “We have to be better”
- Player ratings John Macharia was unplayable