The Bidco United Herald
Market7 Feb 2028
Stephen Okola 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 Bidco United can pretend not to have heard.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Steve Hoffman keeps Bidco United in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
Deadline passes with 7 signed and 2 gone
That is the business done at Bidco United until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
An order from above at Bidco United: somebody has to go
Balance sheets do not care about form or about who the manager was planning to build around. The board have decided a sale is required, and the only question left is which name ends up carrying it.
Transfer targets7 Feb 2028
Simon Masaka due for a Bidco United medical
Everything agreed with another club, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Sifiso Molefe 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 Bidco United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
Graduation day at Bidco United
3 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Words at Bidco United training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Simon Munala is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Transfer targets7 Feb 2028
The window shuts on the Hernest Malonga deal
Bidco United ran out of time with Kenya Police. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.
In brief
- Market Bidco United promote Martin Kamau from within
- Market One of our own: David Manyama joins the Bidco United first team
- Market Martin Rupia steps up from the Bidco United academy