Moses Olunga

Left Wingback - Muranga Seal
15 Nov 2032
Monday
Process

Marked for Moses Olunga

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The Muranga Seal Chronicle

6 Sep 2032
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

Muranga Seal spell it out for Michael Walker

The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Michael Walker has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.

Market

Moses Olunga asks to leave Muranga Seal

“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.

Boardroom

Deadline passes with 5 signed and 14 gone

That is the business done at Muranga Seal 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.

Squad

Francis Gethoi 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 Muranga Seal this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Muranga Seal rebuffed over George Ouma

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Bandari have kept their man, and Muranga Seal go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Transfer targets

Deadline beats Muranga Seal to Samuel Ayanrinde

The clock did what Kenya Police would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.

Market

Talks stall between Muranga Seal and Francis Gethoi

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

The dugout

The manager's exit leaves Tholithemba Nyawose exposed

Every squad has men who were signed by a particular manager and men who were merely inherited. Tholithemba Nyawose is in the first group, and the man who wanted him here is no longer in the building.

The dugout

Kenneth Karisa gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

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The Muranga Seal Chronicle

15 Sep 2031
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Joseph Waithira

134 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Muranga Seal lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

12 matches without a win for Muranga Seal

The run now stands at 12, and the questions being asked around Muranga Seal are no longer polite ones.

Squad

A fracture rules Timothy Onyango out for 43 days

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

Squad

Francis Gethoi 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 Muranga Seal this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Kakamega Homeboyz take the points off Muranga Seal

Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Market

One of our own: Dennis Juma joins the Muranga Seal first team

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

Market

Patrick Mainge steps up from the Muranga Seal academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Patrick Mainge 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.

Market

Muranga Seal promote Jesse Mainge from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Jesse Mainge has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

Moses Olunga steps up from the Muranga Seal academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Moses Olunga 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.

In brief

  • The dugout The manager makes an example of Robert Mudenyu
  • Squad Peter Mainge signs a new deal
  • The dugout The manager’s verdict