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Triumph
Player ratings1 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 52. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Market1 Feb 2027
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Victoria United waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Remo Stars is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Match30 Jan 2027
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Remo Stars have 5 straight wins of it.
Player ratings1 Feb 2027
Adama Goïta, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.97
A mark of 7.97 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Market1 Feb 2027
“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.
Market1 Feb 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
Window shuts: 9 in, 0 out at Remo Stars
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 9 arrived, 0 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Market1 Feb 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Remo Stars they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
Remo Stars have gone to Nasarawa United with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
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Triumph
Market25 Jan 2027
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Kun Khalifat waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Remo Stars is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market25 Jan 2027
Hadi Haruna 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 Remo Stars can pretend not to have heard.
Market25 Jan 2027
The bid was some way short and Remo Stars did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Adama Goïta, 21, steals the show — 7.99
Marked 7.99 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Match23 Jan 2027
Remo Stars are at home on the road
6 straight away victories. Sides that win away are usually sides that can defend and can counter, and the table has begun to reflect what those journeys have earned.
Match23 Jan 2027
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Remo Stars have 4 straight wins of it.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
Ebuka Anthony: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Remo Stars have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market25 Jan 2027
Only the photograph left for Mark Gibson
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Mark Gibson will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Remo Stars the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Adama Goïta and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
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Triumph
Market18 Jan 2027
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Wikki Tourists waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Remo Stars is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Match16 Jan 2027
4‑0, and Samuel Anakwe took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Remo Stars tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad18 Jan 2027
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Market18 Jan 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Remo Stars can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
Adama Goïta, 21, steals the show — 8.90
Marked 8.90 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Market18 Jan 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Remo Stars have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Market18 Jan 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Match16 Jan 2027
Remo Stars keep winning on the road
5 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.
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Market11 Jan 2027
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Remo Stars people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market11 Jan 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Remo Stars, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match9 Jan 2027
Some goals win a match and some take one off somebody else. Antonio Galeano scored in the 87th minute, Barau had already begun thinking about the journey home, and Remo Stars took the lot.
Market11 Jan 2027
The bid was some way short and Remo Stars did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market11 Jan 2027
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Qudus Akanni had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Adama Goïta, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.96
A mark of 7.96 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.86 for the rest of it.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
“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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
At 22 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
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Market4 Jan 2027
“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.
Market4 Jan 2027
The bid was some way short and Remo Stars did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Adama Goïta, 21, steals the show — 8.09
Marked 8.09 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Market4 Jan 2027
The name of Samuel Anakwe has come up in conversations Remo Stars were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Market4 Jan 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Remo Stars is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Boardroom4 Jan 2027
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Chaka Coulibaly has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Biola Sabitu is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Adama Goïta 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 Remo Stars this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match2 Jan 2027
Another one collected away from home
4 on the bounce on the road for Remo Stars. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.
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Squad28 Dec 2026
Adama Goïta and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Ahmed Akinyele 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.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Sodiq Oshidero
“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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mark Gibson commits to Remo Stars for another 4 years.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
Adama Goïta has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Remo Stars 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.
Market28 Dec 2026
A loan that did nothing for Joseph Abah
4 appearances and 1 goals is not a season away, it is a year lost. He is back at Remo Stars no further forward, and everybody involved will explain why it was not their fault.
Market28 Dec 2026
The shop window has Joseph Abah in it
Remo Stars have let the market know Joseph Abah can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
Market28 Dec 2026
“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 dugout28 Dec 2026
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Chigozie Chilekwu has written the date down.
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Boardroom21 Dec 2026
This is the season the town will measure the next twenty against. The trophy travels home with the squad, and the route through the streets was agreed days ago.
Market21 Dec 2026
Only the photograph left for Sodiq Oshidero
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Sodiq Oshidero will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Remo Stars the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words at Remo Stars training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Samuel Agu is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Olalekan Adeleye 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.
Loan watch21 Dec 2026
“I did not go to Rivers United to sit and watch. I want to come back to Remo Stars and fight for my place.” 5 appearances in 19 matches say the rest.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Biola Sabitu, and the manager let it.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Samson Olasupo is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Hosea Michael has written the date down.
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Squad14 Dec 2026
Adama Goïta was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words at Remo Stars training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Samuel Agu is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“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.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Zé Ivaldo 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 Zé Ivaldo is on it.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Sodiq Oshidero 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 Remo Stars, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Loan watch14 Dec 2026
14 starts now, an average of 6.71, and the team sheet at Hearts of Oak has stopped being a question. Exactly what everybody signed up for.
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Market7 Dec 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Remo Stars is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Adama Goïta 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 Remo Stars this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Remo Stars
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ahmed Akinyele was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Chigozie Chilekwu trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
Ebuka Anthony has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Remo Stars 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 dugout7 Dec 2026
The manager makes Jérôme Bonou a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Remo Stars. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
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Upbeat
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Adama Goïta and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Samuel Agu 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.
Loan watch30 Nov 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Remo Stars, and 4 appearances in 16 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Adama Goïta 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 Adama Goïta is on it.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Jabbar Malik 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.
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Market23 Nov 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Remo Stars is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Adama Goïta 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Remo Stars
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Samuel Agu was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Loan watch23 Nov 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Remo Stars, and 5 appearances in 15 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
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 Antonio Galeano is on it.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Samson Olasupo is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
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.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Emmanuel Olisa 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 Remo Stars, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Loan watch23 Nov 2026
8 starts and a season average of 6.68. The loan is doing exactly what it was arranged to do.
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Upbeat
Squad16 Nov 2026
Adama Goïta was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Ahmed Akinyele 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.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Zé Ivaldo 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 Zé Ivaldo is on it.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Jérôme Bonou 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A window away with the national side, and a shirt at Remo Stars that briefly doubles as an advertisement. A call-up flatters the player and the club that built him in the same breath.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Sodiq Oshidero has written the date down.
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Upbeat
Market9 Nov 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Remo Stars they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Zé Ivaldo 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Remo Stars
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Samuel Agu was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Ebuka Anthony 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 Ebuka Anthony is on it.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Hosea Michael has written the date down.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Jérôme Bonou asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Upbeat
Squad2 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Remo Stars
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Samuel Agu was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
$4.6M on the table at Remo Stars
The board have answered with money instead of encouragement, which is the only answer a manager ever wants. Spending it well is now entirely his problem.
Market2 Nov 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Remo Stars, another week without a signature from Samuel Agu.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Olalekan Adeleye and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Loan watch2 Nov 2026
“I did not go to Rivers United to sit and watch. I want to come back to Remo Stars and fight for my place.” 4 appearances in 12 matches say the rest.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
When it matters, Adama Goïta plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Qudus Akanni 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
The captaincy has been taken off Jabbar Malik. Remo Stars will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
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.
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Upbeat
Market26 Oct 2026
Only the photograph left for Sodiq Oshidero
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Sodiq Oshidero will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Remo Stars the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Adama Goïta 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Ahmed Akinyele 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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Antonio Galeano has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Remo Stars 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 dugout26 Oct 2026
“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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Samson Olasupo is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
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Upbeat
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Remo Stars may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Adama Goïta was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Remo Stars
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Samuel Agu was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Sodiq Oshidero
“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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Segun Owoade and Remo Stars agree another 3 years.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Remo Stars are still strangers to each other
6 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
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Market12 Oct 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Olalekan Adeleke will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Remo Stars the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Emmanuel Olisa is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Adama Goïta 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 Remo Stars this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Samuel Agu 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mark Gibson commits to Remo Stars for another 4 years.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“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.
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Upbeat
Squad5 Oct 2026
At 21 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Adama Goïta and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Ahmed Akinyele 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.
Loan watch5 Oct 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Remo Stars, and 1 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Hosea Michael
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Hosea Michael has come out of that comparison in the side, and Remo Stars have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
Market5 Oct 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Abdulrazaq Shuaibu has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Remo Stars.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Jérôme Bonou
“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 dugout5 Oct 2026
Adama Goïta 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 Adama Goïta is on it.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Upbeat
Match23 Sep 2026
El-Kanemi Warriors go through and Remo Stars go home, 2‑3 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Market28 Sep 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Remo Stars is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Adama Goïta, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.74
A mark of 7.74 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Adama Goïta 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Remo Stars training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Samuel Agu is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Samuel Agu
“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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Marked 8.15 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 2‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Antonio Galeano has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Remo Stars 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.
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 34. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Adama Goïta, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 8.09
A mark of 8.09 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.
Market21 Sep 2026
Only the photograph left for Mark Gibson
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Mark Gibson will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Remo Stars the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Zé Ivaldo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Remo Stars training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Samuel Agu is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
He is 20 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Match19 Sep 2026
A 1‑0 win over Warri Wolves, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Hosea Michael, and the manager let it.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Taiwo Nwankwo on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
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Triumph
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.77 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market14 Sep 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Olalekan Adeleke will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Remo Stars the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Remo Stars asked and Katsina United said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The terraces14 Sep 2026
At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match12 Sep 2026
Remo Stars are at home on the road
3 straight away victories. Sides that win away are usually sides that can defend and can counter, and the table has begun to reflect what those journeys have earned.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Remo Stars
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ahmed Akinyele was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Defensive actions: 18, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Market14 Sep 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
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Upbeat
Market7 Sep 2026
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Remo Stars people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market7 Sep 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Remo Stars, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 16 in, 4 out at Remo Stars
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 16 arrived, 4 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Market7 Sep 2026
The bid was some way short and Remo Stars did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $50.1K — a club that wants Douglas Iyowuna enough to be asked twice.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Adama Goïta and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
$47.0K was the most the club would pay and Rivers United were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Remo Stars asked and Nasarawa United said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Samuel Agu 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.
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Triumph
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 45. 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.
Match26 Aug 2026
Bendel Insurance are out and Remo Stars go through, 2‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Market31 Aug 2026
“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.
Market31 Aug 2026
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Remo Stars have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Adama Goïta, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 8.44
A mark of 8.44 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Nobody wants to play Remo Stars right now
5 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
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.
Market31 Aug 2026
The offer from Wa All Stars for Emmanuel Olisa was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
A goal and an assist for Lekan Malik — 7.94
Involvement in 2 goals, from a player who spent the ninety minutes doing the thing a manager actually wants: being where the ball was going to end up. 7.94 beside his name.
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Triumph
Match19 Aug 2026
A 3‑0 win over Niger Tornadoes, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Market24 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Kun Khalifat waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Remo Stars is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A brace, and Mark Gibson takes the afternoon — 8.92
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Mark Gibson provided it, and the 8.92 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad24 Aug 2026
7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Adama Goïta, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.90
A mark of 7.90 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
The name of Chigozie Ani has come up in conversations Remo Stars were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Market24 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Remo Stars can pretend not to have heard.
Match22 Aug 2026
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Remo Stars have 3 straight wins of it.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
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Upbeat
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.06, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Chigozie Ani arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Chigozie Ani has, at Remo Stars, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. SuperSport United have kept their man, and Remo Stars go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market17 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Remo Stars have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Adama Goïta 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 Remo Stars this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Joshua Akpan has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Remo Stars have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Adama Goïta has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match15 Aug 2026
It finished 2‑0, and it was Adama Goïta’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Remo Stars.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Remo Stars training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Hosea Michael is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
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Steady
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 36. 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Remo Stars people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Antonio Galeano and Remo Stars agree another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Adama Goïta 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Aminu Collins 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Anthony Ejuke 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Bright Moffi 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.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Taiwo Nwankwo was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Remo Stars dressing room was either.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Player of the week, judged against every other man in the division. A small award, and one most careers never collect.
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Triumph
Match1 Aug 2026
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑1 against Kun Khalifat, and it could have been more.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.32 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
A defender's goal wins it for Remo Stars — 7.86
1 for Olamilekan Adedayo, marked 7.86, 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Samuel Anakwe commits to Remo Stars for another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Zé Ivaldo was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The terraces3 Aug 2026
He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Market3 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Rivers United have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Odunsi Sunday. The answer from Remo Stars has not changed — yet.