Isaac Ejuke

Left Forward - Free Agent
20 Sep 2038
Monday
Process

Marked for Isaac Ejuke

549 Edition

The Rangers International Courier

2 Feb 2037
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Still nobody has beaten Rangers International

The unbeaten run reaches 16. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Market

Rangers International say no — this time

The offer from Bendel Insurance for Chukwuma Lawal was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Market

Isaac Ejuke has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Rangers International they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Tempers go at Rangers International

Lawrence Nicholas 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Chimobi Igwilo

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

Mirko Juárez shuts the door

Defensive actions: 22, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Squad

Words at Rangers International training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kelechi Chimezie 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.

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Chibueze Oputa

Defensive actions: 21. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Squad

Christopher Richards 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

Back issues
547 Edition

The Rangers International Courier

19 Jan 2037
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Still nobody has beaten Rangers International

The unbeaten run reaches 14. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Player ratings

Chimobi Igwilo runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 32. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Rangers International say no — this time

The offer from Abia Warriors for Tobi Ige was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Market

Ikechukwu Mgbemena has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Rangers International they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Tempers go at Rangers International

Tobi Ige 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.

Squad

Words at Rangers International training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kelechi Chimezie 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.

Market

Enyimba join the queue for Samuel Ogodo

Add another name to the list: Enyimba have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Samuel Ogodo. The answer from Rangers International has not changed — yet.

Player ratings

Joseph Kemin was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.07. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Squad

Isaac Ejuke signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Isaac Ejuke and Rangers International agree another 3 years.

In brief

546 Edition

The Rangers International Courier

12 Jan 2037
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Divine Chidera keeps Rangers International in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Match

Whatever happens, Rangers International do not lose

13 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Market

Kun Khalifat come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Rangers International did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Player ratings

A brace, and Mirko Juárez takes the afternoon — 8.49

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Mirko Juárez provided it, and the 8.49 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad

Lawrence Nicholas 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 Rangers International this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Wikki Tourists are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Rangers International will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Squad

Kelechi Chimezie 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Tobi Ige

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Adeola Olaleye

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief