Chidera Umar

Striker - Kun Khalifat
17 Nov 2032
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Marked for Chidera Umar

318 Edition

The Kun Khalifat Chronicle

30 Aug 2032
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings30 Aug 2032

Chidera Umar could not have asked for more on his first appearance — 7.42

Debuts are survived rather than enjoyed. This one was enjoyed: 7.42, 1 goals, and a manager already being asked whether he starts again next week.

Market30 Aug 2032

Olayinka Osayi-Samuel 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 Kun Khalifat can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets30 Aug 2032

Enyimba tell Kun Khalifat: Ishaq Kayode is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad30 Aug 2032

Tempers go at Kun Khalifat

Chinonso Romanus 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.

Transfer targets30 Aug 2032

Too dear: Kun Khalifat walk away from Samuel Anakwe

$230.0K was the most the club would pay and Remo Stars were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Squad30 Aug 2032

Words at Kun Khalifat training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Blessed Iyamu 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.

Match28 Aug 2032

Kun Khalifat get the job done against Nasarawa United

A 2‑1 win over Nasarawa United, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

The terraces30 Aug 2032

The crowd has taken to Chidera Umar

At 15 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

The dugout30 Aug 2032

Ebere Ekong 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.

In brief

  • Player ratings Nobody on the pitch touched Blessed Iyamu
  • Player ratings Leon Umar will replay that one
  • The dugout The view from the dugout
Back issues
284 Edition

The Kun Khalifat Chronicle

5 Jan 2032
From our football correspondent Crisis

The dugout5 Jan 2032

Donald Essien says Kun Khalifat 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.

Market5 Jan 2032

Chinedu Oduya 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 Kun Khalifat can pretend not to have heard.

Squad5 Jan 2032

Words exchanged at Kun Khalifat

Akpan Nsikak-Abong 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.

Player ratings5 Jan 2032

Blessed Iyamu was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 21. 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.

Boardroom5 Jan 2032

Graduation day at Kun Khalifat

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.

Squad5 Jan 2032

Words at Kun Khalifat training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jonathan Jacob 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.

Transfer targets5 Jan 2032

Bendel Insurance tell Kun Khalifat: Uche Collins is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Market5 Jan 2032

Dennis Abacha steps up from the Kun Khalifat academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Dennis Abacha 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.

Market5 Jan 2032

Kun Khalifat promote Ola Eze from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ola Eze 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