URA FC are at a crossroads, and once again, the problem, and possible solution, sits in midfield.
After a miserable first round that has left the Tax Collectors hovering just above the relegation zone, the club is moving quietly but with purpose.
Reliable sources indicate URA are close to signing free agents Moses Waiswa and Rahmat Ssenfuka, hoping experience and calm can steady a team that has lost direction.
Waiswa, whose Vipers contract expired in January, is expected to sign a two-year deal after his former club delayed renewal talks.
Joining him could be former Wakiso Giants captain Rahmat Ssenfuka, another seasoned midfielder known for leadership and balance.
On paper, it looks like a logical response to a growing crisis.
Not long ago, URA were seen as a club building patiently toward another top-four finish, perhaps even a fifth league title.
The 2025/26 season began with cautious optimism following Alex Isabirye’s return in May 2024, a coach associated with structure and stability. Instead, the campaign has unraveled.
After 15 matches, URA have managed just two wins both at home and suffered six defeats. For a four-time league champion, the numbers are alarming.
Even more troubling is how they have struggled, confidence has drained, creativity has vanished, and belief feels fragile.
Isabirye was dismissed on November 25, 2025, with Hussein Mbalangu appointed to halt the slide.
So far, the change has brought little relief. URA are stuck in a historic scoring drought, seven straight league matches without a goal, 630 minutes of football without finding the net.
Since Kabon Living’s dramatic 90th-minute strike in a chaotic 7–3 win over Buhimba United Saints, URA have failed to score against Police, Calvary, Vipers, Entebbe UPPC, Mbarara City, SC Villa and Kitara. Seven matches. Zero goals. Pressure rising.
At the centre of the problem is a midfield that no longer links defence and attack. Despite having players like Ibrahim Wamannah, Godfrey Ssekibengo and Nicholas Kabonge, chances are rare, leaving forwards Kabon Living, Labiita and Fred Amaku isolated. Defensive errors, once uncommon, now feel inevitable.
That is where Waiswa and Ssenfuka come in.
Their arrival would add experience to a midfield group that includes Norman Namanya, Kabonge, Laban Tibita and Joshua Lubwama.
More than that, they offer what URA urgently need; composure, leadership and control in difficult moments.
URA sit 12th on 13 points, just one above Mbarara City in the relegation zone.
For a club built on patience and long-term thinking, it is unfamiliar and uncomfortable territory.
Quiet questions are growing louder, about squad balance, coaching changes and a confidence level that now makes even simple decisions feel heavy.
URA have never been a club that panics. But this season demands urgency. History rarely forgives teams that stay consistently too long near the bottom.
