The Kariobangi Sharks Post
Squad31 Mar 2036
The knee: Ibrahim Ayumba out for 18 days
18 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Kariobangi Sharks lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad31 Mar 2036
Lucan Louw 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 Kariobangi Sharks this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Mar 2036
Time is catching up with Morgan Mokoena
Everybody at Kariobangi Sharks saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 34 the decline is real and measurable — 3 points — and the only question left is how the club handles somebody it owes a great deal to.
Boardroom31 Mar 2036
Wages eat 97% of everything Kariobangi Sharks earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Market31 Mar 2036
Kariobangi Sharks and Wisdom Essien are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
The dugout31 Mar 2036
Vincent Sithole knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Vincent Sithole trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market31 Mar 2036
Morgan Mokoena told to find a new club
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Morgan Mokoena has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Kariobangi Sharks.
The dugout31 Mar 2036
The manager makes an example of Brian Onyango
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market31 Mar 2036
Still no signature from Sergio Sardinha
2 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Kariobangi Sharks could get for him.
In brief
- Market Lucan Louw linked with a move away
- Squad “I want to play”: Duncan Mainge speaks
- The dugout David Njeru has been promised minutes