Abdullahi Ejuke

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760 Edition

The Kano Pillars Gazette

18 Feb 2041
From our football correspondent Upbeat

The terraces18 Feb 2041

Anger at Kano Pillars spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Market18 Feb 2041

Only the photograph left for Musa Chukwueze

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Musa Chukwueze will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Kano Pillars the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad18 Feb 2041

Shehu Osimhen keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Kano Pillars may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad18 Feb 2041

Tempers go at Kano Pillars

Aminu Sani 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.

Squad18 Feb 2041

Chukwuma Onuachu signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Chukwuma Onuachu and Kano Pillars agree another 3 years.

Player ratings18 Feb 2041

The afternoon belonged to Victor Adeleye

A mark of 7.38, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

Squad18 Feb 2041

The division's best last weekend was a Kano Pillars man

It is a small honour and it is not nothing: somebody watched every match in the division and decided that Imrana Ahmad was the best thing in any of them.

Match16 Feb 2041

Kano Pillars and Katsina United cancel each other out

Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Katsina United came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.

Market18 Feb 2041

Alex Akinola runs his contract down

2 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Kano Pillars money.

In brief

Back issues
737 Edition

The Kano Pillars Gazette

10 Sep 2040
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match8 Sep 2040

11 matches without a win for Kano Pillars

The run now stands at 11, and the questions being asked around Kano Pillars are no longer polite ones.

Match8 Sep 2040

Rivers United punish Kano Pillars for switching off

2 goals to the good, and then a slow surrender of everything that had been earned. Shehu Osimhen will not be the one blamed for it, but nobody at Kano Pillars escapes the conversation that follows a collapse like this.

Market10 Sep 2040

Kano Pillars say no — this time

The offer from Abia Warriors for Shehu Osimhen 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.

Squad10 Sep 2040

Tempers go at Kano Pillars

Tobi Alagbe 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.

Market10 Sep 2040

Warri Wolves expected to open talks for Imrana Ahmad

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Kano Pillars will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Match8 Sep 2040

Shehu Osimhen’s goal not enough for Kano Pillars

Shehu Osimhen scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑3 to Rivers United, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Squad10 Sep 2040

Mohammed Galadima has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Kano Pillars 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.

Squad10 Sep 2040

The manager makes an example of Chidera Abacha

“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.

Squad10 Sep 2040

Tobi Alagbe asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief

707 Edition

The Kano Pillars Gazette

13 Feb 2040
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad13 Feb 2040

Tobi Alagbe breaks a bone — 158 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 158 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market13 Feb 2040

Chidera Ogu has one foot out of the door

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

Match11 Feb 2040

The wait goes on for Kano Pillars

4 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.

Squad13 Feb 2040

Tobi Alagbe 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 Kano Pillars this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad13 Feb 2040

Musa Chukwueze stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Musa Chukwueze and Kano Pillars agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Player ratings13 Feb 2040

Nobody could get near Musa Chukwueze

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

Match11 Feb 2040

Honours even between Kano Pillars and Kun Khalifat

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Squad13 Feb 2040

The manager makes an example of Chidera Ogu

“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.

Market13 Feb 2040

The Musa Chukwueze story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Musa Chukwueze signs something — a contract at Kano Pillars or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief

684 Edition

The Kano Pillars Gazette

5 Sep 2039
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad5 Sep 2039

Ali Abdullahi has been here 17 seasons

503 appearances across 17 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.

Market5 Sep 2039

Kano Pillars say no — this time

The offer from Kun Khalifat for Shehu Osimhen 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.

Squad5 Sep 2039

Mohammed Galadima signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mohammed Galadima commits to Kano Pillars for another 2 years.

Squad5 Sep 2039

Tempers go at Kano Pillars

Mohammed Galadima 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.

Squad5 Sep 2039

Ali Abdullahi 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 ratings5 Sep 2039

Shehu Osimhen runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market5 Sep 2039

Kun Khalifat are about to pick up the phone

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

Boardroom5 Sep 2039

Kano Pillars release $3.2M for the manager

The board have put money on the table rather than an encouraging word. What happens to it now is somebody else's problem, and somebody else's job.

Match3 Sep 2039

Kano Pillars and Rivers United take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

In brief