Daniel Bassey

Right Midfielder - Niger Tornadoes
18 Apr 2036
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504 Edition

The Niger Tornadoes Sentinel

24 Mar 2036
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad24 Mar 2036

31 days out for Chinedu Umar after a fracture

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

Player ratings24 Mar 2036

A defender's goal wins it for Niger Tornadoes — 7.67

1 for Olawale Emmanuel, marked 7.67, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.

Market24 Mar 2036

Victor Ogu is on his way

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

Match22 Mar 2036

Olawale Emmanuel’s goal not enough for Niger Tornadoes

Olawale Emmanuel scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Wikki Tourists, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

The dugout24 Mar 2036

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑2 Noah Correa left the room before anybody could ask which.

The dugout24 Mar 2036

Olawale Emmanuel gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Olawale Emmanuel is on it.

The dugout24 Mar 2036

Victor Ogu gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Player ratings24 Mar 2036

Efe Obiomo leaves them behind him

Shots: 11. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.

The dugout24 Mar 2036

The form table has caught Daniel Bassey

Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.

In brief

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502 Edition

The Niger Tornadoes Sentinel

10 Mar 2036
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad10 Mar 2036

Chinedu Umar breaks a bone — 47 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 47 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings10 Mar 2036

Age has not caught Ismail Sarki yet — 7.91

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.91 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Match8 Mar 2036

Niger Tornadoes see off Nasarawa United

Three points for Niger Tornadoes, 1‑0 the final word against Nasarawa United in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings10 Mar 2036

Nothing got past Olawale Emmanuel

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 16 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

The dugout10 Mar 2036

Noah Correa: “That is the standard”

“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 1‑0, already talking about the next one.

The dugout10 Mar 2036

Ismail Sarki gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Ismail Sarki is on it.

The dugout10 Mar 2036

The manager makes an example of Daniel Bassey

“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.

The dugout10 Mar 2036

Somebody else is better right now than Abdullahi Awoniyi

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.

Player ratings10 Mar 2036

Efe Obiomo beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 13. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

In brief