Caleb Ouma

Defensive Midfielder - KCB
9 May 2029
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Caleb Ouma

133 Edition

The KCB Chronicle

12 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Pheko Phago 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 KCB can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout

Fadhili Mwinyimvua keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” KCB may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market

Only the photograph left for Fadhili Mwinyimvua

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Fadhili Mwinyimvua will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around KCB the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Boardroom

Still no name above the door at KCB

Day 11 of the vacancy. Candidates have been priced, sounded out and quietly ruled out — and the caretaker’s win ratio is becoming an argument all by itself.

Match

Francis Kahiro sends KCB past Kariobangi Sharks

It finished 2‑0, and it was Francis Kahiro’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to KCB.

Player ratings

Patrick Otieno in the eights

A performance of 8.11 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad

Nashon Wekesa 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.

Squad

Evans Kipkemoi 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 KCB this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

December Kisakah was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 15. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

In brief

Back issues
132 Edition

The KCB Chronicle

5 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom

Martin Mbugua is out at KCB

Four paragraphs on the club website, none of them about football. The board thanked him, wished him well, and had the search under way before the page went up.

Boardroom

Francis Ouma steps up at KCB for now

“Somebody picks the team on Saturday. This week it is me, and that is as far as I have thought.” No promises were made in either direction, which is how these usually begin.

Boardroom

Window shuts: 5 in, 1 out at KCB

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 5 arrived, 1 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Squad

Words exchanged at KCB

Kelvin Etemesi 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.

Boardroom

Graduation day at KCB

5 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.

Player ratings

Nashon Wekesa did the work nobody counts — 7.01

12 combined actions and 7.01. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.

Market

One of our own: Ochieng Mwendwa joins the KCB first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ochieng Mwendwa is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Caleb Ouma steps up from the KCB academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Caleb Ouma 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.

Market

One of our own: Harun Owusu joins the KCB first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Harun Owusu is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief