The KCB Chronicle
Market3 Dec 2035
Anthony Kipkirui 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 KCB can pretend not to have heard.
Squad3 Dec 2035
A falling-out at KCB
Nashon Wekesa and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad3 Dec 2035
Ally Yusuf signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ally Yusuf commits to KCB for another 2 years.
Boardroom3 Dec 2035
$161.4K of the owner's money at KCB
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.
Squad3 Dec 2035
Bacari Djamanca 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.
Market3 Dec 2035
KCB promote Kevin Mukangula from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Kevin Mukangula has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market3 Dec 2035
Peter Mainge steps up from the KCB academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Peter Mainge 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.
Market3 Dec 2035
KCB promote Dennis Owusu from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Dennis Owusu has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Boardroom3 Dec 2035
No signings allowed at KCB
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.
In brief
- Boardroom The KCB debt reaches $15.9M
- The dugout Zachary Brault-Guillard knocks on the manager’s door
- The dugout Kenneth Okoth gets picked when it counts