Marked for Eric Onyango
From our football correspondent
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Market29 Jan 2029
Eric Onyango has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around APS Bomet they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad29 Jan 2029
Sven Yidah 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 APS Bomet this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom29 Jan 2029
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at APS Bomet now.
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Market1 Jan 2029
“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.
Market1 Jan 2029
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at APS Bomet is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad1 Jan 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at APS Bomet this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom1 Jan 2029
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at APS Bomet now.
Market1 Jan 2029
Aziz Okaka told to find a new club
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Aziz Okaka has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at APS Bomet.
Squad1 Jan 2029
“The easiest signature of my career.” John Mukangula and APS Bomet agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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Boardroom4 Dec 2028
Michael Masika has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at APS Bomet can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Market4 Dec 2028
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at APS Bomet is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad4 Dec 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at APS Bomet this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad4 Dec 2028
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Bronson Nsubuga and APS Bomet agree another 2 years.
Squad4 Dec 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Aziz Okaka, and the manager let it.
Market4 Dec 2028
Andre Amoah is 17, and APS Bomet have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Boardroom4 Dec 2028
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at APS Bomet now.
Market4 Dec 2028
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Market4 Dec 2028
Sven Yidah linked with a move away
The name of Sven Yidah keeps appearing in other people's back pages. APS Bomet say nothing, which says plenty.
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Boardroom6 Nov 2028
The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Michael Masika has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.
Squad6 Nov 2028
Lawrence Kibet: 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.” APS Bomet have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market6 Nov 2028
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at APS Bomet is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad6 Nov 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at APS Bomet this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom6 Nov 2028
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at APS Bomet now.
Market6 Nov 2028
Still no offer on the table, and Bronson Nsubuga’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
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Market9 Oct 2028
Only the photograph left for Eric Onyango
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Eric Onyango will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around APS Bomet the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad9 Oct 2028
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Lawrence Kibet commits to APS Bomet for another 2 years.
Squad9 Oct 2028
Sven Yidah 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 APS Bomet this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Market11 Sep 2028
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at APS Bomet is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad11 Sep 2028
Sven Yidah 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.
Match9 Sep 2028
0‑1 to Kariobangi Sharks, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad11 Sep 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Aziz Okaka, and the manager let it.
Player ratings11 Sep 2028
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Boardroom11 Sep 2028
The numbers do not look good at APS Bomet
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.
Squad11 Sep 2028
Lawrence Kibet asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Market11 Sep 2028
12 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
Player ratings11 Sep 2028
Marked 5.11, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.
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Match26 Aug 2028
The wait goes on for APS Bomet
8 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad28 Aug 2028
Sven Yidah 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.
Match26 Aug 2028
A bad afternoon for APS Bomet against KCB
1‑2 to KCB, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad28 Aug 2028
Edwin Buliba gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings28 Aug 2028
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market28 Aug 2028
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. APS Bomet will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Player ratings28 Aug 2028
One lapse, one goal, and ninety minutes of honest work counting for nothing. That is the job at APS Bomet, and it is a cruel one.
Market28 Aug 2028
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Lawrence Kibet’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Player ratings28 Aug 2028
5.77 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.
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The terraces7 Feb 2028
The boos come down from three sides
“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 6 of the 25 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.
Market7 Feb 2028
The deal that would have taken Dominic Kipkirui to Mara Sugar has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to APS Bomet with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Market7 Feb 2028
As if he never left: Jesse Ouma returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Jesse Ouma is a APS Bomet player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Market7 Feb 2028
As if he never left: Jesse Manyama returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Jesse Manyama is a APS Bomet player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Market7 Feb 2028
As if he never left: Eric Onyango returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Eric Onyango is a APS Bomet player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Sven Yidah 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 APS Bomet this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Feb 2028
The manager makes an example of Sven Yidah
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match5 Feb 2028
Kenya Police left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
APS Bomet board go back on their word
Something was promised, a deadline passed, and it did not arrive. Trust inside a football club is built over years and spent in an afternoon.