Olisa Ejuke

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Remo Stars
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The Remo Stars Herald

13 Aug 2035
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Nobody wins at Remo Stars

18 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

Market

Remo Stars say no — this time

The offer from Hearts of Oak for Oscar Naasei 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

Terms done: Aka David is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Katsina United waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Remo Stars is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Match

Whatever happens, Remo Stars do not lose

11 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.

Player ratings

Ayman Azhil, 34, rolls back the years — 8.01

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.01 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.

The dugout

Olisa Ejuke says Remo Stars went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market

Only the photograph left for Oche Ademola

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Oche Ademola will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Remo Stars the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Words exchanged at Remo Stars

Oscar Naasei 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.

Market

Plateau United join the queue for Chinedu Ajayi

Add another name to the list: Plateau United have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Chinedu Ajayi. The answer from Remo Stars has not changed — yet.

In brief

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The Remo Stars Herald

18 Jun 2035
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Daniel Bassey agrees terms with Bayelsa United

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Remo Stars people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Match

Nobody wins at Remo Stars

13 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Ayman Azhil yet — 8.29

At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.29 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Market

Remo Stars turn down Enyimba for Wilfred Akpan

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

The dugout

Olisa Ejuke says Remo Stars went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Transfer targets

Biola Sabitu due for a Remo Stars medical

Everything agreed with Asante Kotoko, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Market

Only the photograph left for Abraham Ademola

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Abraham Ademola will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Remo Stars the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Words exchanged at Remo Stars

Oscar Naasei 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.

Squad

Adama Goïta 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.

In brief