Leon Obi

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Marked for Leon Obi

496 Edition

The Kun Khalifat Chronicle

28 Jan 2036
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match26 Jan 2036

The wait goes on for Kun Khalifat

16 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad28 Jan 2036

A fracture rules Jerry Ogu out for 33 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Kun Khalifat will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match26 Jan 2036

A hiding for Kun Khalifat

Beaten 0‑3 by Ikorodu City, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Squad28 Jan 2036

A one-man rearguard from Ikenna Benjamin

There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Market28 Jan 2036

Kenneth Akpan 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 The request is on a desk at Kun Khalifat, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad28 Jan 2036

Words at Kun Khalifat training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Chijioke Ahiaeke 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.

Squad28 Jan 2036

Ibrahim Akibu stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Ibrahim Akibu and Kun Khalifat agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Boardroom28 Jan 2036

Nobody left the Kun Khalifat dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

Player ratings28 Jan 2036

Nobody could get near Alex Amaefula

Successful dribbles: 8. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

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441 Edition

The Kun Khalifat Chronicle

8 Jan 2035
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match6 Jan 2035

The wait goes on for Kun Khalifat

9 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Market8 Jan 2035

Chukwueze Ogunjobi asks to leave Kun Khalifat

“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.

Boardroom8 Jan 2035

12 academy players handed senior numbers at Kun Khalifat

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Match6 Jan 2035

The goals have deserted Kun Khalifat

3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Kun Khalifat can tell you which week it ends in.

Squad8 Jan 2035

Chijioke Ahiaeke 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.

Market8 Jan 2035

One of our own: Nnamdi Musa joins the Kun Khalifat first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Nnamdi Musa is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market8 Jan 2035

Olayinka Adebayor steps up from the Kun Khalifat academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Olayinka Adebayor has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market8 Jan 2035

One of our own: Leon Obi joins the Kun Khalifat first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Leon Obi is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Match6 Jan 2035

A bad afternoon for Kun Khalifat against Bendel Insurance

0‑1 to Bendel Insurance, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

In brief