Is Police Fc Inheriting Nairobi United’s Problems after Signing Coach Muyoti?

The Football Kenya Federation (FKF) Mozzartbet Cup winners, Nairobi United, head coach Nicholas Muyoti, has secretly walked out of the club and joined SportPesa League champions Kenya Police. Muyoti, who is contracted to Nairobi United but has yet to officially resign as the Nairobi United from his role as coach, has left the club without giving any reasons for his departure and entered into contractual talks with the Kenya Police. Signs of Muyoti leaving Nairobi United were seen during the club's last Premier League match against AFC Leopards at the Nyayo National Stadium on Wednesday, January 7th, 2026, where he was absent from the technical bench. Nairobi United had to play the match, which they lost 2-0, without having their coach on the bench. After Nairobi United honoured their league match away in Kisii against the 1988 Kenya’s representatives in the Africa Champions Cup, Shabana, where they won 3-1 on Sunday, January 4th, returned to Nairobi to prepare for their next match against AFC Leopards, but Muyoti didn’t turn up for training. Muyoti didn’t show up to train the team on Monday and Tuesday ahead of their fixture against AFC Leopards only to turn up on the match day for the team’s pep talk and warm up session and even interfeared with the already named squad of the day even though he didn’t train with the team before the game and then disappeared before the match started to put the players and technical bench in a panic mode after realizing that their coach was not on the bench. On the match day, at the Nyayo National Stadium, Muyoti declined to do a pre-match media interview without any reason, which was done by the technical director, Salim Ali. It is reported that Muyoti has received warnings for misconduct of being absent from his official duties on several occasions, and even some occasions not travelling together with the team when on a journey to honour away matches until his recent walking out through sneaking to join the Kenya Police. It is rumoured that Muyoti walked away from Nairobi United after the club recently employed new members of the technical bench to join him. Contrary to the rumours, the club brought on board new members of the technical bench to deputise him and replace the others after Muyoti had complained that the other coaches on the bench that worked with him from the start of the new SportPesa League season were sabotaging him. ’ After Nairobi United lost to Posta Rangers 2-0 in a league match on December 8, 2025, a week after being edged out 1-0 by Mathare United, Muyoti sent a text message to one of the club’s senior officials complaining that the technical bench members he headed were sabotaging him, hence the league and CAF match losses. The club executive took Muyoti's concerns and replaced the other technical bench members that he had complained about with new ones who were unveiled on December 30th, 2025, ahead of the restart of the SportPesa League on January 4th, 2025. The replacement and appointment of the new members of the technical bench was done in consultation with Muyoti, who, even in a press briefing, welcomed them on board and said he had been given the right choice of coaches to assist him in making Nairobi United win the league in their maiden season. Muyoti welcomed the coaching staff reshuffle, describing it as a step in the right direction and expressing confidence that the expanded technical team will help push the club to greater heights. “Just looking at the quality of the coaches that have come in, I think it is a big plus with the experience they have had with other teams. I believe whatever we know as technical staff here and whatever they are bringing in is going to help us. I also think it will help in terms of the quality of players we are bringing in," Muyoti was quoted in a section of the press. Muyoti joined Nairobi United in January last year in a mid-season signing and has received the necessary cooperation, support, facilitation, and sound management from the Sakaja Johnson Foundation, whose patron is Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja, after taking over the management of the team. On September 27th, 2024, Sakaja's foundation took over the running of affairs of the Nairobi United FC. Sakaja vowed to roll out a plan that will see the team elevated to the National Kenya Premier League in the long run, a dream that came to be achieved after the team qualified for the country’s top-flight league and won the FKF Cup in less than a year. “You will never lack. I want you to wake up, work, and think about football. Put all your energy here; I believe in winning. Let’s be winners,” Governor Sakaja passionately told the team upon taking over its management. The team became the second non-Premier League team after Mathare United to win the FKF Cup by beating 20-time record league champions Gor Mahia in the same season that they qualified for top top-flight league. Nairobi United became the first Kenyan club to reach the CAF Confederation Cup group stage on their debut continental campaign after knocking out heavyweights and nine-time Africa club champions Etoile du Sahel. Nairobi United knocked Tunisia’s Etoile du Sahel out of the TotalEnergies CAF Confederation Cup, winning 7–6 on penalties after a 2–2 aggregate draw to reach the group stage on their first attempt.