Michael Juma

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Marked for Michael Juma

122 Edition

The Tusker Post

27 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market27 Nov 2028

Teddy Dok is on his way

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

Squad27 Nov 2028

Tempers go at Tusker

Ian Simiyu Jr. 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.

Squad27 Nov 2028

A row about effort at Tusker

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Abud Omar was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad27 Nov 2028

Tusker lose Michael Juma

16 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Boardroom27 Nov 2028

Tusker counting the cost

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

The dugout27 Nov 2028

When it matters, Ian Simiyu Jr. plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout27 Nov 2028

The manager makes an example of Ronny Otieno

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Market27 Nov 2028

Humphrey Katasi linked with a move away

The name of Humphrey Katasi keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Tusker say nothing, which says plenty.

The dugout27 Nov 2028

Jacob Onyango has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Jacob Onyango has written the date down.

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The Tusker Post

30 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

The dugout30 Oct 2028

Douglas Ochoko: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Tusker have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market30 Oct 2028

Teddy Dok is on his way

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

Squad30 Oct 2028

A falling-out at Tusker

Bongani Tau and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Boardroom30 Oct 2028

Belts tighten at Tusker

The accounts are being read more closely than the results. Wages before ambition is the order of business now, and the manager has been told so.

The dugout30 Oct 2028

Bongani Tau gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad30 Oct 2028

Words at Tusker training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abud Omar 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.

Squad30 Oct 2028

Tusker count the cost of losing Michael Juma

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

The dugout30 Oct 2028

Ian Simiyu Jr. has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Tusker will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

The dugout30 Oct 2028

Kgaogelo Monanyane asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief

80 Edition

The Tusker Post

7 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market7 Feb 2028

So close: Fidel Origa’s move dies late

The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Sofapaka moved on, Fidel Origa reports back to Tusker, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.

Match5 Feb 2028

Nobody wins at Tusker

14 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

The dugout7 Feb 2028

Dennis Wanjala: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Tusker have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Boardroom7 Feb 2028

Window shuts: 8 in, 0 out at Tusker

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 8 arrived, 0 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Squad7 Feb 2028

A falling-out at Tusker

Eric Kapaito and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Boardroom7 Feb 2028

Graduation day at Tusker

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.

Squad7 Feb 2028

Abud Omar signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Abud Omar commits to Tusker for another 2 years.

Transfer targets7 Feb 2028

Door shut on Sunusi Audu

Tusker 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.

Match5 Feb 2028

Tusker see off Posta Rangers

Three points for Tusker, 2‑0 the final word against Posta Rangers in a contest settled by the finer margins.

In brief