Ibrahim Mulee

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Free Agent
30 Nov 2035
Friday
Process

Marked for Ibrahim Mulee

443 Edition

The Gor Mahia Chronicle

22 Jan 2035
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Terms done: Elvis Ayumba is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Shabana waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Gor Mahia is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Market

Sidnei Tavares 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 Gor Mahia can pretend not to have heard.

Market

KCB come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Gor Mahia did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Eyes on Tommy McDermott again

The phone has started ringing about Tommy McDermott again, and this time the name on the line is Golden Arrows. Gor Mahia are listening politely and promising nothing.

Transfer targets

Kakamega Homeboyz tell Gor Mahia: Martin Wanyama 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.

Squad

Sam Waller 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 Gor Mahia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

Austin Harrison has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Gor Mahia 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 dugout

Timothy Rupia knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Gor Mahia, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The dugout

A door opens for Caleb Rupia

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

In brief

Back issues
407 Edition

The Gor Mahia Chronicle

15 May 2034
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

The run at home goes on for Gor Mahia

28 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.

Match

Gor Mahia march on in the cup

APS Bomet are out and Gor Mahia go through, 1‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Match

Justin Lonwijk leads the rout of Shabana

3‑0, and Justin Lonwijk took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Gor Mahia tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Player ratings

Ibrahim Mulee could not have asked for more on his first appearance — 8.09

Debuts are survived rather than enjoyed. This one was enjoyed: 8.09, 1 goals, and a manager already being asked whether he starts again next week.

Player ratings

Both of them Justin Lonwijk's — 8.27

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.27, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Match

Gor Mahia cannot stop winning

6 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

The dugout

Harun Owusu says Gor Mahia 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

John Okoth is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Gor Mahia is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

A row about effort at Gor Mahia

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Koro Coulibaly was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

In brief

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  • Match Another one collected away from home
  • Player ratings Lamarana Jallow was on a different afternoon to everybody else
396 Edition

The Gor Mahia Chronicle

27 Feb 2034
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

42 unbeaten for Gor Mahia

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 42 matches without defeat is a foundation Gor Mahia did not have in the autumn.

Market

Only the photograph left for Mohamed Farsi

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Mohamed Farsi will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Gor Mahia the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Market

Eric Mainge asks to leave Gor Mahia

“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.

Player ratings

Koro Coulibaly was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 21. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Boardroom

The borrowing at Gor Mahia reaches $48.1M

Past the limit the bank set, which is the line between a club being financed and a club being in trouble. $48.1M is now the number every conversation about this club will start with.

Squad

Samuel Mukangula signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Samuel Mukangula and Gor Mahia agree another 3 years.

The dugout

Koro Coulibaly has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Gor Mahia 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 dugout

Paul Braun on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Paul Braun after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

The dugout

No hiding place for Ibrahim Mulee

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

In brief