The Nasarawa United Gazette
Squad30 Aug 2032
19 days out for Abraham Dennis after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Nasarawa United will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market30 Aug 2032
Only the photograph left for Ojo Johnson
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ojo Johnson will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Nasarawa United the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market30 Aug 2032
Nnamdi Babatunde 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 The request is on a desk at Nasarawa United, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets30 Aug 2032
The paperwork begins on Alex Musa
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Nasarawa United have done the hard part with Remo Stars, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Transfer targets30 Aug 2032
Nasarawa United rebuffed over Domnan Panse
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Rangers International have kept their man, and Nasarawa United go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match28 Aug 2032
A bad afternoon for Nasarawa United against Kun Khalifat
1‑2 to Kun Khalifat, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad30 Aug 2032
Nasarawa United lose Bright Bassey
14 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
The dugout30 Aug 2032
Olisa Lawal answers for it
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Squad30 Aug 2032
A row about effort at Nasarawa United
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ojo Johnson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
In brief
- Squad Tempers go at Nasarawa United
- The dugout No hiding place for Ojo Johnson
- Market The Calum Barnes conversation is coming