Dean Lorch

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Marked for Dean Lorch

111 Edition

The Barau Courier

11 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match9 Sep 2028

7 matches without a win for Barau

The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Barau are no longer polite ones.

Market11 Sep 2028

Dean Lorch puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Barau, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market11 Sep 2028

Only the photograph left for Jonathan Martínez

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Jonathan Martínez will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Barau the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad11 Sep 2028

Tempers go at Barau

Ibrahim Yahaya 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.

Player ratings11 Sep 2028

Nobody could get near Hilary Ekawu

Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad11 Sep 2028

The manager makes an example of Promise Daniel

“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.

Squad11 Sep 2028

Eric Herensperger 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.

Squad11 Sep 2028

No place for Chisom Chiaha on the big day

He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Barau pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.

Match9 Sep 2028

Honours even between Barau and Warri Wolves

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

In brief

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87 Edition

The Barau Courier

27 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match25 Mar 2028

21 unbeaten for Barau

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 21 matches without defeat is a foundation Barau did not have in the autumn.

Market27 Mar 2028

Ebube Nwachukwu asks to leave Barau

“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.

Squad27 Mar 2028

Oscar Destiny keeps Barau in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad27 Mar 2028

A move Dean Lorch would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Dean Lorch is living that version at Barau, and it tends to show in the first month.

Match25 Mar 2028

Eromosele Zibiri the difference as Barau beat Ikorodu City

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Eromosele Zibiri. 3‑1 against Ikorodu City, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad27 Mar 2028

Words at Barau training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ebube Nwachukwu 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.

Player ratings27 Mar 2028

Ninety minutes of Stanley Oganbor at his very best

Marked 9.00. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Barau.

Squad27 Mar 2028

No hiding place for Bismark Duah

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Bismark Duah, and the manager let it.

Loan watch27 Mar 2028

Joseph Kemin has seen enough of Inter Miami CF

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Barau, and 1 appearances in 0 say he has earned the hearing.

In brief