The Warri Wolves Courier
Match2 Jan 2027
10 matches without a win for Warri Wolves
The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Warri Wolves are no longer polite ones.
Market4 Jan 2027
Igbunu Evwierhurhoma hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Warri Wolves can pretend not to have heard.
Match2 Jan 2027
Warri Wolves cannot find the net
7 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Nobody could get near Chisom Orji
Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market4 Jan 2027
Warri Wolves turn down Kun Khalifat for Godstime Edewor
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Warri Wolves
Oluwaseun Oladimeji 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.
Boardroom4 Jan 2027
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Warri Wolves
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Alimi Adebayo 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.
Market4 Jan 2027
One of our own: Terem Bassey joins the Warri Wolves first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Terem Bassey is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Dennis Onuachu steps up from the Warri Wolves academy
- Squad The manager makes an example of Ogar Sebastine
- Squad The plan did not have a place for Vincent Edafe