Good morning Enyimba Fans.
It’s a new week, but the same sad story keeps coming out of Enyimba, and I am not sure why we are pretending to be surprised. Are you?
Once upon a time, Enyimba was Nigeria’s most decorated and most feared club. A proper powerhouse. Today, we are 14th on the table with 31 points, only two points above the relegation zone. That is not transition. That is danger. That is the relegation quarters waving at us like an old friend.
Is this the season we eventually get relegated?
The league table does not respect history. It does not care about stars on a badge or what we did in 2003. It only counts points. And when you are this close to the drop while still playing organisational roulette off the pitch, you are basically daring the league to punish you.
Because what are we even doing as a club?
We have two Technical Advisers in the mix. Deji Ayeni is appointed by club management. Emmanuel Deutsch is appointed by the state government. So who is actually in charge of the team. Who sets tactics. Who picks the squad. Who owns the dressing room. In serious clubs, these are not mysteries. In Enyimba, it is now a weekly guessing game.
Then sporting direction. We now have two Sporting Directors. Uche Okechukwu and Daniel Eke. One appointed by the club. One appointed by the government. So again, who runs recruitment. Who negotiates. Who signs off on player decisions. Which appointment carries real authority. Or do we just wake up and choose which press release we like that morning.
And while all of this power play is happening, the people who should be holding the centre are not even on ground. The team manager is in the United States. The chairman is in London. Enyimba is in Aba, but leadership is in diaspora. The centre is not holding, and it shows. A club cannot be run like an online meeting where nobody’s camera is on.
Now here is the part that matters.
If the goal is truly to save Enyimba, we need three things immediately, not next week, not next month. First, clarity. One technical head. One sporting head. One chain of command. If the state government owns the club, then let them state clearly who is in charge and stop this parallel management that makes everyone powerful and nobody responsible.
Second, pay what is owed. You cannot motivate professionals with hunger. You cannot chase points with unpaid bonuses. You cannot ask for fight when you are not keeping your own side of the bargain.
Third, a short and realistic football plan for the remaining games. This is not the season for big grammar. This is survival season. Win your home games. Stop the silly concessions. Scrap for points away. Put the players in a structure they understand and let them play without fear.
Because at this rate, if we keep doing press release versus press release while the table keeps moving, the league will not wait for us to settle our ego battles. Relegation does not care who appointed who.
We lost at home to Ikorodu City yesterday. We are 14th. Two points above the drop. And the club is still behaving like the table is a suggestion. One win, 3 defeats, 1 draw. We have lost 11 times this season, its not even March yet. Next match day, if we lose again and the teams around us win, then it will be proper crunch time. Is this the season we eventually get relegated? If we do not fix the basics now, we might not like the answer.
Enyimba Enyi.
