The El-Kanemi Warriors Courier
Match1 Jan 2028
14 unbeaten for El-Kanemi Warriors
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 14 matches without defeat is a foundation El-Kanemi Warriors did not have in the autumn.
Market3 Jan 2028
Bilal Yakubu asks to leave El-Kanemi Warriors
“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.
Squad3 Jan 2028
The season belongs to Risilanu Ismail
An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and El-Kanemi Warriors have had the benefit of it.
Player ratings3 Jan 2028
Nobody could get near Rivio Ayemwenre
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market3 Jan 2028
Panathinaikos watching Risilanu Ismail
The interest is real enough to have reached print. El-Kanemi Warriors have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Boardroom3 Jan 2028
Odion Bassey signs on for the long haul
El-Kanemi Warriors moved before anybody else could: a new deal for Odion Bassey, agreed quietly and announced loudly. Boards extend managers for many reasons; the good one is the one this looks like.
Market3 Jan 2028
As if he never left: Leon Umar returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Leon Umar is a El-Kanemi Warriors player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Market3 Jan 2028
Ebere Iheanacho is a El-Kanemi Warriors player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Squad3 Jan 2028
Muhammed Kabiru 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 El-Kanemi Warriors this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
In brief
- Player ratings Nothing got past Thankgod Ikeagwu
- Match Risilanu Ismail sends El-Kanemi Warriors past Katsina United
- Player ratings A masterclass from Risilanu Ismail