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470 Edition

The Barau Courier

30 Jul 2035
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad30 Jul 2035

A knee injury of the worst kind for Serge Obassa

83 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Barau lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match28 Jul 2035

The wait goes on for Barau

8 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Market30 Jul 2035

Terms done: Stephen Simon is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Warri Wolves waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Barau is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Squad30 Jul 2035

A one-man rearguard from Stephen Simon

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Player ratings30 Jul 2035

Michael Obafemi, 19, steals the show — 7.71

Marked 7.71 at 19, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Transfer targets30 Jul 2035

Barau make their move for Sunday Ademola

$42.0K on the table at Remo Stars. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Transfer targets30 Jul 2035

Barau rebuffed over Oghenekaro Aribo

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Warri Wolves have kept their man, and Barau go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad30 Jul 2035

Words exchanged at Barau

Thabiso Msele 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.

Match28 Jul 2035

Barau refuse to lose to Bendel Insurance

A point taken on 91 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.

In brief

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423 Edition

The Barau Courier

4 Sep 2034
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad4 Sep 2034

Serge Obassa keeps Barau in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 11 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Boardroom4 Sep 2034

The scrutiny sharpens at Barau

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Barau is running low.

Market4 Sep 2034

Stephen Simon says no to Niger Tornadoes

“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Stephen Simon had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.

Player ratings4 Sep 2034

Ndidi Olayinka, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.94

A mark of 7.94 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Market4 Sep 2034

Adebayo Chukwueze asks to leave Barau

“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.

Boardroom4 Sep 2034

Window shuts: 5 in, 12 out at Barau

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 5 arrived, 12 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Squad4 Sep 2034

Words exchanged at Barau

Jimmy Ambrose 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.

Match2 Sep 2034

Kano Pillars take the points off Barau

Beaten 2‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Transfer targets4 Sep 2034

Taiwo Ademola stays at Bendel Insurance as time runs out

A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Barau will try again when the window opens; Bendel Insurance may not be selling by then.

In brief

418 Edition

The Barau Courier

31 Jul 2034
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match29 Jul 2034

At last: Barau win one

16 matches without a win, and then this, against Bendel Insurance. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.

Squad31 Jul 2034

23 days out for Victor Sadiq after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Barau will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Player ratings31 Jul 2034

Chukwuma Adeleye, 19, steals the show — 7.95

Marked 7.95 at 19, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Market31 Jul 2034

Terem Ejuke 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.

Transfer targets31 Jul 2034

Taiwo Eze is a medical away from Barau

The deal with Rivers United is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Squad31 Jul 2034

A falling-out at Barau

Chukwuma Nwakali and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets31 Jul 2034

Barau rebuffed over Umar Balogun

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Kano Pillars have kept their man, and Barau go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Match29 Jul 2034

Barau get the job done against Bendel Insurance

A 2‑1 win over Bendel Insurance, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad31 Jul 2034

A row about effort at Barau

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

In brief