Umar Bassey

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Free Agent
28 Oct 2035
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Marked for Umar Bassey

431 Edition

The Enyimba Sentinel

30 Oct 2034
From our football correspondent Steady

Market30 Oct 2034

Only the photograph left for Moses Eguavoen

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Moses Eguavoen will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Enyimba the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad30 Oct 2034

A falling-out at Enyimba

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

Squad30 Oct 2034

Ishaq Kayode is slowing down

At 33, 3 points below where he was, and a body that has started charging interest. It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph on this page.

Squad30 Oct 2034

Words at Enyimba training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mohamed Yasser 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.

Market30 Oct 2034

Umar Bassey is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Enyimba has been clear about where Umar Bassey stands, which is more than many ever get.

The dugout30 Oct 2034

Ishaq Kayode has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Enyimba will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

The dugout30 Oct 2034

Stephen Kalu 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.

Market30 Oct 2034

Muhammad Suleiman linked with a move away

The name of Muhammad Suleiman keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Enyimba say nothing, which says plenty.

The dugout30 Oct 2034

Emmanuel Abban has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Emmanuel Abban has written the date down.

In brief

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The Enyimba Sentinel

16 Oct 2034
From our football correspondent Steady

Market16 Oct 2034

Only the photograph left for Ishaq Kayode

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ishaq Kayode will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Enyimba the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Market16 Oct 2034

Adebayo Obafemi asks to leave Enyimba

“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.

Squad16 Oct 2034

Tempers go at Enyimba

Nura Salisu 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.

Squad16 Oct 2034

Mohamed Yasser 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.

The dugout16 Oct 2034

The manager makes an example of Muhammad Suleiman

“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.

The dugout16 Oct 2034

When it matters, Nura Salisu plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Market16 Oct 2034

Oyintari Adamawa told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Oyintari Adamawa has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Enyimba.

Market16 Oct 2034

The Nura Salisu talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Enyimba know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

The dugout16 Oct 2034

A door opens for Emmanuel Abban

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

In brief