Henry Eze

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Remo Stars
21 May 2030
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Henry Eze

196 Edition

The Remo Stars Herald

29 Apr 2030
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Muhammed Bah sends Remo Stars through

Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Muhammed Bah obliged against Wikki Tourists. 3‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Remo Stars.

Player ratings

Ndidi Adebayor could not have asked for more on his first appearance — 7.32

Debuts are survived rather than enjoyed. This one was enjoyed: 7.32, 1 goals, and a manager already being asked whether he starts again next week.

Match

Remo Stars make it 7 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Remo Stars have 7 straight wins of it.

Player ratings

Henry Eze, 17, steals the show — 7.94

Marked 7.94 at 17, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Player ratings

Up for the corner, and Aminu Sani delivers — 7.89

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Aminu Sani scored, was marked 7.89, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Market

Only the photograph left for Muhammed Bah

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Muhammed Bah will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Remo Stars the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

A row about effort at Remo Stars

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

Match

Samuel Anakwe sends Remo Stars past Kano Pillars

It finished 2‑1, and it was Samuel Anakwe’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Remo Stars.

Squad

Tempers go at Remo Stars

Usman Abubakar 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.

In brief

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137 Edition

The Remo Stars Herald

12 Mar 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Gabriel Biriduba 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 Remo Stars can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Only the photograph left for Samson Olasupo

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Samson Olasupo will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Remo Stars the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Tempers go at Remo Stars

Koro Coulibaly 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.

Match

Whatever happens, Remo Stars do not lose

6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

The dugout

No hiding place for Chimobi Igwilo

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Chimobi Igwilo, and the manager let it.

Squad

Uche Jaguar 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.

Squad

Henry Eze signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Henry Eze commits to Remo Stars for another 3 years.

Squad

“I want to play”: Koro Coulibaly speaks

“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Koro Coulibaly

A mark of 7.49, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

In brief