Good day Everyone!
Here we are. Brand new week and in exactly six days, the new season will be firmly upon us. All the hush hush. Arguments and counter arguments plus secrecy about the newly signed players – it all comes down to this. The most competitive, most fearsome and worst organized league on earth is about to kick off its 2025/2026 Season.
You won’t see the fanfare or noise anywhere. The League’s current agbadas and suits don’t care. You’ll think that with one week going in, there ought to be some excitement but all the excitement there is, is about the English League that started at the weekend.
From an Enyimba stand point, Question is where all of this leaves us. We still unsure of the players we have signed. I’m guessing we may have to rely on matchday lineups unless of course the club has updated their website. That I would be very amazed if it were the case.
With no Continental distractions, what presents as a more realistic target for the club this season? For starts, we need a solid team. Last season we started well at Heartland before slumbering into a goalscoring crisis. That should be sorted and early this term.
This is fully Stanley Eguma’s team now. He has cherry-picked the options available to him, including the players we’ve been accused of poaching. But the fact that most of the squad is brand new means consistency and rhythm will be crucial.
Stanley Dimgba is back, as is Joseph Atule, who probably didn’t have the summer he would have liked. The same could be said of Dimgba, he likely never expected to return to the league so soon. Both players have a point to prove and will be looked upon for leadership in attack.
The midfield is somewhat chin scratching. Kalu Nweke, Chinedu Ufere and Issah Mohammed return from last term and a couple of additions this season. Ifeanyi Okechukwu, Ndedi Henry, Pere Anderson, Quadri and Aniebet. However you cant help but think, our midfield needs a true maestro. Someone who will own it and dictate play.
Realistically, we’ll need heroes in every part of the team. Eleven heroes on every matchday. We may not have the same quality as some of the stronger teams, but if Eguma can assemble eleven plus seven battle-ready warriors each week, he could restore the glory this team so desperately craves.
As the new season approaches, this blog will continue to support the team — cheer, celebrate, and give praise — but also criticize and call out dropped balls when they happen. The expectation is nothing less than a title challenge. It’s not impossible: keep the home front formidable and gather points away from home.
We can have some faith. We still have faith, and sometimes that’s more than enough to carry us through
Back tomorrow.
‘EnyimbaEnyi
