Ramadan Hamdi

Defensive Midfielder - Bidco United
12 Nov 2035
Monday
Process

Marked for Ramadan Hamdi

480 Edition

The Bidco United Herald

8 Oct 2035
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Ousmane Banse asks to leave Bidco United

“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.

Squad

Shahzodbek Ubaydullayev signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Shahzodbek Ubaydullayev and Bidco United agree another 2 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Bidco United

Ahmed Ghoneim 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.

In brief

Back issues
441 Edition

The Bidco United Herald

8 Jan 2035
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Godfrey Joseph damages knee ligaments — 100 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 100 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

A fracture rules Newton Ochieng out for 40 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Bidco United will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Collins Karisa asks to leave Bidco United

“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.

Squad

Bidco United count the cost of losing Thomas Wainaina

15 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad

Sori Mané 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 Bidco United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Still no ink between Bidco United and Ramadan Hamdi

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Bidco United, another week without a signature from Ramadan Hamdi.

In brief

427 Edition

The Bidco United Herald

2 Oct 2034
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Newton Ochieng breaks a bone — 15 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 15 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Boardroom

Bidco United counting the cost

The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Bidco United now.

Squad

Sharif Shuaib stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Sharif Shuaib and Bidco United agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Sori Mané 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 Bidco United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Bidco United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Thomas Wainaina 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.

Market

Talks stall between Bidco United and Ramadan Hamdi

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

In brief

417 Edition

The Bidco United Herald

24 Jul 2034
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Newton Ochieng breaks a bone — 85 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 85 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Ramadan Hamdi says Bidco United went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Ahmed Ghoneim 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 Bidco United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Bidco United come up short against Kenya Police

Kenya Police left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Francis Chege 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 ratings

Abdulateef Yusuff runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief