The KCB Chronicle
Market29 Jan 2029
Fadhili Mwinyimvua agrees terms with Mara Sugar
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around KCB people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Boardroom29 Jan 2029
The silence upstairs is getting loud at KCB
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Squad29 Jan 2029
Takalani Mazhamba pulls a muscle — 14 days out
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 14 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
The dugout29 Jan 2029
Fortune Omoto frozen out at KCB
This is not rotation. Fortune Omoto has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at KCB is pretending otherwise.
Squad29 Jan 2029
A falling-out at KCB
Kelvin Etemesi and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad29 Jan 2029
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.
Squad29 Jan 2029
George Mulee stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” George Mulee and KCB agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout29 Jan 2029
The manager makes an example of Dennis Kweyu
“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.
The dugout29 Jan 2029
Kelvin Etemesi has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at KCB 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.
In brief
- The dugout December Kisakah knocks on the manager's door
- Market Abisalom Onyango told to find a new club
- Market The Francis Kahiro story refuses to die