The Kariobangi Sharks Post
Market18 Dec 2028
Faiz Opande 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 The request is on a desk at Kariobangi Sharks, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market18 Dec 2028
Only the photograph left for Ally Salum Omar
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ally Salum Omar will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Kariobangi Sharks the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad18 Dec 2028
Sbusiso Mtshali 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 Kariobangi Sharks this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad18 Dec 2028
Simphiwe Mtsweni 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.
Squad18 Dec 2028
Nicholas Olunga signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Nicholas Olunga and Kariobangi Sharks agree another 3 years.
The dugout18 Dec 2028
Clinton Machaka gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Clinton Machaka is on it.
In brief
- The dugout Ally Salum Omar knocks on the manager’s door
- Market The Ntokozo Siquba story refuses to die
- Squad The training reports on Phila Dlamini are not good
- The dugout The manager comes out for Osborn Maluleke