The Tusker Post
Squad11 Dec 2034
Amos Amuka damages knee ligaments — 24 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 24 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market11 Dec 2034
Only the photograph left for Eugene Ikutwa
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Eugene Ikutwa will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Tusker the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad11 Dec 2034
Ian Simiyu Jr. 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 Tusker this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad11 Dec 2034
Youssef Labib 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.
The dugout11 Dec 2034
Keith Imbali 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 dugout11 Dec 2034
Amos Amuka 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
- The dugout The manager makes Carlitos Djapa a promise
- Market Keith Imbali linked with a move away
- Squad James Mulee is out on the grass again