The Gor Mahia Chronicle
Market8 Feb 2027
Patrick Ekandjoum agrees terms with Sofapaka
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Gor Mahia people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
Gor Mahia told to sell
The instruction came from the boardroom and the dugout did not agree with it. Somebody will go, the fee will be called good business, and the manager will spend the season rebuilding around the space.
Market8 Feb 2027
Only the photograph left for Paul Ochuoga
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Paul Ochuoga will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Gor Mahia the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
Graduation day at Gor Mahia
2 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Frank Odhiambo 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.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Door shut on Awal Auta
Gor Mahia asked and Nasarawa United said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market8 Feb 2027
James Ayumba steps up from the Gor Mahia academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. James Ayumba 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
One of our own: Patrick Kamau joins the Gor Mahia first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Patrick Kamau is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Ninety minutes of Felix Oluoch at his very best
Marked 8.02. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Gor Mahia.
In brief
- Squad A falling-out at Gor Mahia
- Squad Too much change too quickly at Gor Mahia
- Match Felix Oluoch rescues a point for Gor Mahia