John Miheso

Left Wingback - Shabana U18
17 Feb 2030
Sunday
Process

Marked for John Miheso

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The Shabana Post

11 Jun 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Austine Odongo has said yes to Mara Sugar

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Shabana have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Ezekiah Omuri

Successful dribbles: 32. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Erick Otieno 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 The request is on a desk at Shabana, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout

Nashon Alembi says Shabana 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.

Market

Gilbert Abala is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Shabana is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Words exchanged at Shabana

Maxwell Mulili 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.

Match

Shabana come up short against Kariobangi Sharks

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

Squad

Cliff Nyakeya 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

John Miheso out for 35 days

The medical room confirms 35 days on the sidelines for John Miheso, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

In brief

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The Shabana Post

5 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Dalphine Omuri 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 Shabana can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Wycliffe Omondi has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Shabana they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Boardroom

Window shuts: 8 in, 3 out at Shabana

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 8 arrived, 3 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Boardroom

Shabana 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.

Boardroom

Wycliffe Omondi signs for Tusker while still at Shabana

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Wycliffe Omondi has agreed terms with Tusker for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Squad

Tempers go at Shabana

Maxwell Mulili 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.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Shabana

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.

Match

Kariobangi Sharks take the points off Shabana

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Market

Shabana promote John Miheso from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. John Miheso has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

In brief