The Katsina United Herald
Market20 Dec 2027
Muhammad Suleiman 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 Katsina United can pretend not to have heard.
Squad20 Dec 2027
Words exchanged at Katsina United
Fabby Clark and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad20 Dec 2027
Katsina United count the cost of losing Musa Nwankwo
34 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad20 Dec 2027
Words at Katsina United training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Afeez Bankole is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout20 Dec 2027
A promise honoured at Katsina United
Something was said to Mohammed Ibrahim and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
The dugout20 Dec 2027
Usman Barau has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Katsina United will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout20 Dec 2027
Innocent Arigu knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Katsina United, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market20 Dec 2027
The Samson Obi talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Katsina United know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Market20 Dec 2027
Katsina United put Afeez Bankole up for sale
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Afeez Bankole may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
In brief
- The dugout Joshua Enaholo keeps his manager's vote
- Squad Chinedu Ogunjobi is out on the grass again