Marked for Eric Oteng
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match3 Oct 2026
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Liberty Professionals are no longer polite ones.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Eric Oteng was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Nana Essien is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Loan watch5 Oct 2026
“I watch every Liberty Professionals game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Ashanti Gold runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Liberty Professionals training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gladson Kudus is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Amos Appiah named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Amos Appiah is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Market5 Oct 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Liberty Professionals, another week without a signature from Kwadwo Sulemana.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
The one thing Albert Amoah could not do
Shots: 4, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
Match3 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Hasaacas? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match26 Sep 2026
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Liberty Professionals has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Eric Oteng in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Liberty Professionals this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Harrison Afful falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad28 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Albert Amoah
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Marked 8.19 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Match26 Sep 2026
A 2‑2 draw with Heart of Lions leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad21 Sep 2026
Eric Oteng was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Ernest Kyereh was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.84. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Match19 Sep 2026
It needed Ernest Kyereh to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Berekum Chelsea, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Abdul Afful dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
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Crisis
Market7 Sep 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Liberty Professionals, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Eric Oteng was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Nana Essien is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
4 academy players handed senior numbers at Liberty Professionals
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Liberty Professionals training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Harrison Afful is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match5 Sep 2026
Yaw Ofori scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Inter Allies, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Market7 Sep 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Osman Owusu is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market7 Sep 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Daniel Kudus has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market7 Sep 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Samuel Acquah is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
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Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
The offer from Heart of Lions for Abraham Acquah was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Eric Oteng in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Liberty Professionals this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Liberty Professionals training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kwadwo Sulemana is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Amos Appiah gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
The bid was some way short and Liberty Professionals did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
Eric Oteng was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Liberty Professionals training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gladson Kudus is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.