David Onuachu

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Barau U18
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342 Edition

The Barau Courier

14 Feb 2033
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match12 Feb 2033

A bad afternoon for Barau against Wikki Tourists

2‑3 to Wikki Tourists, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Transfer targets14 Feb 2033

Deadline beats Barau to Peter Ogunjobi

The clock did what Rangers International would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.

Squad14 Feb 2033

Barau count the cost of losing David Onuachu

27 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Player ratings14 Feb 2033

A masterclass from Loiange Ondoa

Marked 8.27 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

The dugout14 Feb 2033

Interim Coach answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 2‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

The dugout14 Feb 2033

Loiange Ondoa has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Barau 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 dugout14 Feb 2033

Somebody else is better right now than Ola Obafemi

The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.

The dugout14 Feb 2033

No hiding place for Michael Akpan

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

Looking ahead14 Feb 2033

Jimmy Ambrose goes back to face Plateau United

Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Jimmy Ambrose’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Barau needing him to play as if none of it matters.

In brief

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323 Edition

The Barau Courier

4 Oct 2032
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match4 Oct 2032

Barau sink to position 19

22 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Match4 Oct 2032

Barau finish in position 19

22 points, and the season has a number on it. Whatever it felt like from the inside, this is what it will look like in a book.

Market4 Oct 2032

Shehu Amoo 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 Barau can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout4 Oct 2032

Dennis Ejuke keeps the receipts

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

Match2 Oct 2032

Enyimba take the points off Barau

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad4 Oct 2032

Tempers go at Barau

Thabiso Msele 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.

Squad4 Oct 2032

David Onuachu signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” David Onuachu commits to Barau for another 3 years.

The dugout4 Oct 2032

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Victor Babatunde to a room that had heard them before.

Squad4 Oct 2032

A place in the month's best eleven for Ndidi Olayinka

Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Ndidi Olayinka has come out of that comparison in the side, and Barau have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.

In brief