Musa Ogunjobi

Defensive Midfielder - Bayelsa United
27 Sep 2032
Monday
Process

Marked for Musa Ogunjobi

286 Edition

The Bayelsa United Courier

19 Jan 2032
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Nowhere to hide for Bayelsa United

0‑3 against El-Kanemi Warriors, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Market

Stephen Chukwueze asks to leave Bayelsa United

“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 targets

Luís Alberto is a medical away from Bayelsa United

The deal with Barau is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Match

4 matches without a win for Bayelsa United

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Bayelsa United are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Kenneth Sheddy 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 Bayelsa United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at Bayelsa United

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

Player ratings

Okardi Inikurogha beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 17. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Boardroom

Nobody left the Bayelsa United 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.

The dugout

Odion Eguavoen: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

In brief

Back issues
285 Edition

The Bayelsa United Courier

12 Jan 2032
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

William Obi asks to leave Bayelsa United

“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.

Squad

Bayelsa United lose Ogheneovowe Erere

37 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on George Abine

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Bayelsa United have done the hard part with Rangers International, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Squad

A falling-out at Bayelsa United

Ogheneovowe Erere and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets

Niger Tornadoes tell Bayelsa United: Obed Ankrah is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Match

A bad afternoon for Bayelsa United against Plateau United

0‑2 to Plateau United, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout

No hiding place for Don-Pedro Samuel

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

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑2 defeat, delivered by Odion Eguavoen to a room that had heard them before.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Okardi Inikurogha

Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief