Eric Amuka

Left Midfielder - Free Agent
5 Sep 2036
Friday
Process

Marked for Eric Amuka

440 Edition

The Gor Mahia Chronicle

1 Jan 2035
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Eric Amuka puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Gor Mahia, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

John Okoth has one foot out of the door

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

Squad

Sidnei Tavares honoured for the season

The kind of year that ends with a name being read out in a hall. Gor Mahia had the benefit of it every week and now have the problem of everybody else knowing.

Squad

Austin Harrison 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 Gor Mahia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

No signings allowed at Gor Mahia

The manager may talk to whoever he likes and may pay nobody. A squad survives a window like this by borrowing, by promoting, and by hoping the injuries land somewhere else.

Market

No place for Sidnei Tavares in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Sidnei Tavares has his answer from Gor Mahia; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

The dugout

Aïmen Moueffek gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Aïmen Moueffek is on it.

Market

Still no ink between Gor Mahia and Aïmen Moueffek

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Gor Mahia, another week without a signature from Aïmen Moueffek.

Squad

The armband goes to Jon Russell

A strip of cloth that decides nothing on the pitch and tells the dressing room whose opinion counts. The manager has made a statement without making one.

In brief

Back issues
432 Edition

The Gor Mahia Chronicle

6 Nov 2034
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A fracture rules Koro Coulibaly out for 65 days

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

Market

John Okoth has one foot out of the door

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

Squad

Austin Harrison 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 Gor Mahia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Sidnei Tavares stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Sidnei Tavares and Gor Mahia agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Boardroom

$727.5K of the owner's money at Gor Mahia

The shortfall was covered from upstairs again. Supporters are entitled to be relieved and entitled to ask what happens the month it is not, and both feelings usually arrive together.

Boardroom

No signings allowed at Gor Mahia

The manager may talk to whoever he likes and may pay nobody. A squad survives a window like this by borrowing, by promoting, and by hoping the injuries land somewhere else.

Boardroom

96% of the income goes out in wages at Gor Mahia

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Squad

Koro Coulibaly is no longer first choice

The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Koro Coulibaly has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.

The dugout

When it matters, Aïmen Moueffek 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.

In brief

430 Edition

The Gor Mahia Chronicle

23 Oct 2034
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

82 days out for Koro Coulibaly after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Gor Mahia will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market

Anthony Kagere asks to leave Gor Mahia

“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.

Market

Mohamed Farsi is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Gor Mahia is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Timothy Mbugua out for 46 days

The medical room confirms 46 days on the sidelines for Timothy Mbugua, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Boardroom

Gor Mahia are $47.5M in the red

The borrowing is past what the bank agreed, which is the line where a debt stops being how football is financed and starts being a problem. Every phone-in in this town will quote the figure for the next five years.

Squad

Words exchanged at Gor Mahia

Sam Waller and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

The dugout

When it matters, Lamarana Jallow 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.

Market

No place for Eric Amuka in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Eric Amuka has his answer from Gor Mahia; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

Market

Koro Coulibaly linked with a move away

The name of Koro Coulibaly keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Gor Mahia say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief