The Shabana Post
Match20 Jan 2031
Shabana sink to position 17
18 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market20 Jan 2031
Ochieng Kipkirui asks to leave Shabana
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Transfer targets20 Jan 2031
Ramahlwe Erasmus turns down Shabana
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Bandari keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Transfer targets20 Jan 2031
Shabana rebuffed over Michael Mwendwa
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Tusker have kept their man, and Shabana go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad20 Jan 2031
Tempers go at Shabana
George Onyango 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 targets20 Jan 2031
Shabana try to borrow Collins Masika
Kakamega Homeboyz have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
The dugout20 Jan 2031
Timothy Njeru knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Timothy Njeru trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market20 Jan 2031
The Biron Otieno story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Biron Otieno signs something — a contract at Shabana or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Market20 Jan 2031
The clock does Elvis Amuka’s negotiating for him
7 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Shabana could ask drops and the wages Elvis Amuka can ask rise.
In brief
- Boardroom The Shabana production line keeps running
- Squad Lessons booked for Elvis Kipkirui at Shabana
- Squad Jesse Olunga back in training