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Bajaber sets his sights on the FKF title
Mohammed Bajaber doesn't do the usual settling-in press line about adapting to a new dressing room. The Harambee Stars midfielder has joined Nairobi United and gone straight for the biggest claim available: he wants the FKF Premier League trophy.
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Bajaber's move to Nairobi United, as reported by Capital Sports, lands as one of the more pointed statements of intent in Kenyan football this October. This isn't a squad depth signing. It's a capped international, with Harambee Stars experience behind him, walking into a club that clearly wants to be talked about as a title contender.
Why the ambition talk matters
Players arriving at new clubs rarely open with "I'm here to win the league." Bajaber did exactly that, according to Capital Sports, naming the FKF Premier League title as his key target at Nairobi United. For a club still building its domestic standing, having an established international frame the move that way is as much a message to rivals as it is a personal goal.
What Nairobi United are signalling
The club is described in the Capital Sports report as "Sakaja's Nairobi United," a reference to the ownership and political backing around the project. Whatever the specifics of that structure, the on-pitch signal is straightforward: this is a club spending its capital, literal and reputational, on recruitment that can actually move the league table. Bringing in a Harambee Stars regular isn't the kind of deal a club makes if mid-table comfort is the ceiling.
Bajaber's role
Details on the length of his deal and any fee involved weren't part of the available reporting, and neither was a breakdown of his recent club form before the switch. What is clear is the role he's expected to play: a senior, international-calibre presence in a Nairobi United side that wants its squad to carry genuine Premier League pedigree, not just promise.
The size of the task
Saying you want to win the FKF Premier League in October and actually doing it in May are different sports entirely. Kenyan top-flight title races have punished bold talk before. But Bajaber's arrival gives Nairobi United a player who has worn the national shirt and isn't shy about saying what he came for, and that alone changes how the rest of the division has to look at them this season.
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