Eric Mainge

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497 Edition

The Kenya Police Herald

4 Feb 2036
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad4 Feb 2036

Tyshick Mosengo damages knee ligaments — 138 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 138 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Player ratings4 Feb 2036

Both of them William Gitama's — 8.68

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.68, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Match2 Feb 2036

Kenya Police make it 4 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Kenya Police have 4 straight wins of it.

The dugout4 Feb 2036

Collins Kipkirui: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Kenya Police have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market4 Feb 2036

Eric Mainge asks to leave Kenya Police

“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.

Boardroom4 Feb 2036

Window shuts: 7 in, 4 out at Kenya Police

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 7 arrived, 4 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Transfer targets4 Feb 2036

Henry Roberts is a medical away from Kenya Police

The deal with Ulinzi Stars is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Transfer targets4 Feb 2036

Henry Roberts will not be coming to Kenya Police

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Ulinzi Stars is saying, and nobody at Kenya Police is enjoying the guessing.

Squad4 Feb 2036

A falling-out at Kenya Police

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

In brief

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496 Edition

The Kenya Police Herald

28 Jan 2036
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad28 Jan 2036

A knee injury of the worst kind for Tyshick Mosengo

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

Market28 Jan 2036

Ejiro Abbey asks to leave Kenya Police

“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.

Market28 Jan 2036

Kenya Police turn down Bidco United for Timothy Kahata

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Transfer targets28 Jan 2036

Gor Mahia tell Kenya Police: Lamarana Jallow is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad28 Jan 2036

Mohamed Medjaji 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.

Squad28 Jan 2036

Words exchanged at Kenya Police

Declan Skura 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.

Boardroom28 Jan 2036

The Kenya Police debt reaches $18.8M

Football clubs borrow; that is not the story. Borrowing more than the facility allows is, because from here it is the owner's money or somebody else's decision, and neither of those belongs to the board.

Transfer targets28 Jan 2036

Kenya Police try to borrow Henry Roberts

Ulinzi Stars have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

The dugout28 Jan 2036

No hiding place for Eric Mainge

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Eric Mainge, and the manager let it.

In brief

433 Edition

The Kenya Police Herald

13 Nov 2034
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market13 Nov 2034

Michael Mwendwa hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Kenya Police can pretend not to have heard.

Squad13 Nov 2034

Words exchanged at Kenya Police

Humphrey Obina 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.

Squad13 Nov 2034

A muscle injury and 15 days out for Alabi Adewale

The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Kenya Police will quote 15 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.

Squad13 Nov 2034

Christian Nwoke 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.

Market13 Nov 2034

Christian Nwoke told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Christian Nwoke has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Kenya Police.

Market13 Nov 2034

One of our own: Eric Mainge joins the Kenya Police first team

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

Market13 Nov 2034

Kenneth Owusu steps up from the Kenya Police academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Kenneth Owusu 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.

Squad13 Nov 2034

Baraka Badi is not the player he was

It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 36 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.

The dugout13 Nov 2034

No hiding place for Ejiro Abbey

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ejiro Abbey, and the manager let it.

In brief