The Warri Wolves Courier
Market4 Jan 2027
Alimi Adebayo 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Alimi Adebayo: 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.” Warri Wolves have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Othuke Egbo 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 Warri Wolves this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Seth Mayi in the eights
A performance of 9.08 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Market4 Jan 2027
Warri Wolves promote Alex Ihenacho from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Alex Ihenacho has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market4 Jan 2027
Aminu Osayi-Samuel steps up from the Warri Wolves academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Aminu Osayi-Samuel 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.
In brief
- Market Henry Moffi steps up from the Warri Wolves academy
- Squad No hiding place for Ezekiel Oroh
- Match Warri Wolves get the job done against Rivers United