Berna

Left Back - Berekum Chelsea
29 Oct 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Berna

117 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

23 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Vincent Klu Adjeu has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Berekum Chelsea they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Tempers go at Berekum Chelsea

Berna 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.

Squad

Words at Berekum Chelsea training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matías Morales 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Berekum Chelsea against Ashanti Gold

1‑2 to Ashanti Gold, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Rahman Abdul has improved at 29, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

Squad

Seth Paintsil 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.

Player ratings

Clement Ansah runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 11. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

Eliud Lokuwam never got going

5.57 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.

Player ratings

Seth Paintsil never got going

5.63 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.

In brief

Back issues
116 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

16 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Chastening afternoon for Berekum Chelsea

A 1‑4 beating by New Edubiase United was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Market

Charles Agyemang hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Berekum Chelsea can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Charles Agyemang has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Berekum Chelsea they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Tempers go at Berekum Chelsea

Seth Paintsil 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.

Squad

Matías Morales 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.

Squad

Berekum Chelsea lose Rahman Abdul

32 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Berna

“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.

Boardroom

Nobody left the Berekum Chelsea dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

Player ratings

Off the pace: Matías Morales

A mark of 5.13 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.

In brief

112 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

18 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

A 2-goal lead gone for Berekum Chelsea

It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. Liberty Professionals kept coming because nothing stopped them, and Berekum Chelsea will be asked about the last half hour all week.

Squad

Kwesi Sorotu Badori keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Berekum Chelsea may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market

Charles Agyemang asks to leave Berekum Chelsea

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market

Charles Agyemang is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Berekum Chelsea is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Tempers go at Berekum Chelsea

Seth Paintsil 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.

Match

Liberty Professionals take the points off Berekum Chelsea

Beaten 2‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Berna 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.

Squad

Berekum Chelsea count the cost of losing Rahman Abdul

67 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Player ratings

One of those days for Seth Paintsil

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.24, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

In brief

109 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

28 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Ahmed Khaled

31 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Berekum Chelsea lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

Morrison Anokye: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Berekum Chelsea have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Vincent Klu Adjeu has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Berekum Chelsea they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Market

Wa All Stars join the queue for Eric Ofori-Antwi

Add another name to the list: Wa All Stars have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Eric Ofori-Antwi. The answer from Berekum Chelsea has not changed — yet.

Squad

Tempers go at Berekum Chelsea

Seth Paintsil 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.

Market

Heart of Lions expected to open talks for Augustine Agyapong

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Berekum Chelsea will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

In brief

102 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

10 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Ahmed Khaled damages knee ligaments — 87 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 87 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

The terraces

Anger at Berekum Chelsea spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Match

Berekum Chelsea sink to position 16

13 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Market

Heart of Lions come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Berekum Chelsea did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Emmanuel Sarpong puts it in writing

“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 Berekum Chelsea, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Mohammed Seidu has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Berekum Chelsea they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

In brief

101 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

3 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Ahmed Khaled

99 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Berekum Chelsea lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the Berekum Chelsea boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Boardroom

Berekum Chelsea put Hervé Pierre on notice

The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.

Market

Only the photograph left for Mário Junior

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Mário Junior will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Berekum Chelsea the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Market

Morrison Anokye asks to leave Berekum Chelsea

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market

Eyes on Augustine Agyapong again

The phone has started ringing about Augustine Agyapong again, and this time the name on the line is Heart of Lions. Berekum Chelsea are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad

Tempers go at Berekum Chelsea

Seth Paintsil 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.

Squad

Matías Morales 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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Berna

“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.

In brief

100 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

26 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Ahmed Khaled damages knee ligaments — 107 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 107 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market

Michael Mensah Awuah hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Berekum Chelsea can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Only the photograph left for Eric Ofori-Antwi

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Eric Ofori-Antwi will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Berekum Chelsea the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Seth Paintsil 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 Berekum Chelsea this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Berekum Chelsea training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Berna 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.

Squad

A promise honoured for Torric Jebrin

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Berekum Chelsea told Torric Jebrin something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

In brief

97 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

5 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Ahmed Khaled damages knee ligaments — 130 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 130 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Boardroom

Hervé Pierre is the new Berekum Chelsea manager

“This is a club with real history, and I did not have to think about it for long.” The new manager takes charge with every slate wiped clean.

Market

Ebenezer Shamo asks to leave Berekum Chelsea

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Tempers go at Berekum Chelsea

Seth Paintsil 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.

Squad

Berna 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.

Loan watch

Kwesi Sorotu Badori counts the days

“I watch every Berekum Chelsea game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Shakhtar runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

In brief

94 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

15 May 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

Anger at Berekum Chelsea spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Squad

Seidu Abubakar damages knee ligaments — 91 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 91 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match

Berekum Chelsea sink to position 16

13 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Market

Augustine Agyapong puts it in writing

“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 Berekum Chelsea, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Seth Paintsil 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 Berekum Chelsea this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

Still nobody in the Berekum Chelsea dugout

14 days with the chair empty, a list of names that grows and shrinks by the day, and not one signature on anything. Every week that passes takes the best candidates off it.

In brief

91 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

24 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Seidu Abubakar

113 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Berekum Chelsea lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market

Michael Mensah Awuah hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Berekum Chelsea can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Only the photograph left for Mohammed Seidu

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Mohammed Seidu will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Berekum Chelsea the goodbyes have quietly begun.

In brief

88 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

3 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Mohamed El Negely

33 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Berekum Chelsea lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Boardroom

The scrutiny sharpens at Berekum Chelsea

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Berekum Chelsea is running low.

Boardroom

the manager has until the next board meeting

What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Berekum Chelsea can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.

Market

Augustine Agyapong puts it in writing

“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 Berekum Chelsea, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Charles Agyemang is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Berekum Chelsea is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Seth Paintsil 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 Berekum Chelsea this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Berekum Chelsea training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Berna 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.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Berekum Chelsea

7 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

Boardroom

Berekum Chelsea pull $3.2M back off the table

The money that was there in the summer is not there now. Nobody upstairs calls this a change of ambition, and everybody downstairs reads it as one.

In brief

87 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

27 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Mohamed El Negely

40 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Berekum Chelsea lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

Berekum Chelsea win it in stoppage time

The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 91th minute. Aduana Stars will replay every second of the added time for a week.

Market

Charles Agyemang asks to leave Berekum Chelsea

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market

Mohammed Seidu has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Berekum Chelsea they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Tempers go at Berekum Chelsea

Seth Paintsil 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.

Squad

Matías Morales 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.

Match

Berekum Chelsea get the job done against Aduana Stars

A 1‑0 win over Aduana Stars, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Ahmed Khaled

“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 ratings

Berna stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.35 on the card, and the Berekum Chelsea support went home talking about one name.

In brief

86 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

20 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The wait goes on for Berekum Chelsea

33 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

The terraces

Anger at Berekum Chelsea spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Mohamed El Negely

47 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Berekum Chelsea lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

Berekum Chelsea are in real trouble now

Position 16, 10 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Match

Berekum Chelsea taken apart

0‑3 to BA All Stars, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Market

Dele Israel puts it in writing

“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 Berekum Chelsea, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Kingsley Braye: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Berekum Chelsea have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Seth Paintsil 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 Berekum Chelsea this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Berekum Chelsea training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Berna 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.

In brief

85 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

13 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

32 matches without a win for Berekum Chelsea

The run now stands at 32, and the questions being asked around Berekum Chelsea are no longer polite ones.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Mohamed El Negely

54 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Berekum Chelsea lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market

Ahmed Khaled asks to leave Berekum Chelsea

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Tempers go at Berekum Chelsea

Seth Paintsil 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.

Squad

Sheikh Tijan Touray gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Sheikh Tijan Touray has just signed for Berekum Chelsea, and for once the answer mattered.

Boardroom

Berekum Chelsea beat the market to Danso Wiredu from Heart of Lions

Heart of Lions will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Danso Wiredu has pre-agreed a move to Berekum Chelsea, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

Squad

Berna 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.

Match

Berekum Chelsea come up short against Medeama

Medeama left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Market

A long bet from Berekum Chelsea on Sheikh Tijan Touray

He is 20, and nobody at Berekum Chelsea signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

In brief

84 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

6 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

31 matches without a win for Berekum Chelsea

The run now stands at 31, and the questions being asked around Berekum Chelsea are no longer polite ones.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Mohamed El Negely

61 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Berekum Chelsea lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Boardroom

the manager takes the Berekum Chelsea job

“I have watched this squad. There is more in it than the table says.” First press conference, first promise — the manager made the one every new manager makes, and now comes the part where it gets checked.

Market

Eric Ofori-Antwi asks to leave Berekum Chelsea

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Frédérick Ntsama

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad

Berna signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Berna and Berekum Chelsea agree another 4 years.

Market

Only the photograph left for Charles Agyemang

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Charles Agyemang will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Berekum Chelsea the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Match

The goals have deserted Berekum Chelsea

4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Berekum Chelsea can tell you which week it ends in.

Squad

Seth Paintsil 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 Berekum Chelsea this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

83 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

28 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The wait goes on for Berekum Chelsea

30 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Mohamed El Negely

68 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Berekum Chelsea lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

A hiding for Berekum Chelsea

Beaten 0‑3 by Hearts of Oak, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Market

Kwesi Sorotu Badori asks to leave Berekum Chelsea

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market

Shakhtar watching Kwesi Sorotu Badori

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Berekum Chelsea have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Market

Mohammed Seidu has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Berekum Chelsea they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Boardroom

Mohammed Seidu signs for Asante Kotoko while still at Berekum Chelsea

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Mohammed Seidu has agreed terms with Asante Kotoko for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Squad

Tempers go at Berekum Chelsea

Seth Paintsil 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.

Match

Berekum Chelsea cannot find the net

3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

In brief

82 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

21 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

No end in sight to Berekum Chelsea's wait for a win

29 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Berekum Chelsea has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Mohamed El Negely damages knee ligaments — 76 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 76 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

The terraces

Anger at Berekum Chelsea spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Match

Every point is an argument now for Berekum Chelsea

Position 16 and 10 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Market

Dele Israel hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Berekum Chelsea can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Seth Paintsil 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 Berekum Chelsea this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Berekum Chelsea training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Berna 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.

The terraces

Berekum Chelsea supporters have found a favourite in Frédérick Ntsama

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Frédérick Ntsama has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Squad

No hiding place for Clement Ansah

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Clement Ansah, and the manager let it.

In brief

74 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

27 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

20 matches without a win for Berekum Chelsea

The run now stands at 20, and the questions being asked around Berekum Chelsea are no longer polite ones.

The terraces

The mood at Berekum Chelsea has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Match

Every point is an argument now for Berekum Chelsea

Position 16 and 8 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Market

Dele Israel puts it in writing

“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 Berekum Chelsea, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Berna 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 Berekum Chelsea this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Matías Morales 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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Matías Morales

“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 ratings

Seth Paintsil runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Mohamed El Negely answers Great Olympics immediately

Conceding is one thing; the response is what tells you about a dressing room. Mohamed El Negely had Berekum Chelsea level again within 1 minutes, and Great Olympics never got to play with a lead at all.

In brief

73 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

20 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

19 matches without a win for Berekum Chelsea

The run now stands at 19, and the questions being asked around Berekum Chelsea are no longer polite ones.

Match

Nowhere to hide for Berekum Chelsea

0‑3 against Wa All Stars, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Market

Torric Jebrin hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Berekum Chelsea can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Seth Paintsil 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 Berekum Chelsea this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Berekum Chelsea training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matías Morales 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.

Squad

Berna 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.

Squad

Fataho Nerie signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Fataho Nerie and Berekum Chelsea agree another 4 years.

Boardroom

Inquest at Berekum Chelsea

The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.

Player ratings

Nasser El Khayati could not find anything

5.29. Every footballer has these and most of them happen away from a full ground; his did not, and he will be aware of that all week.

In brief

67 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

8 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

13 matches without a win for Berekum Chelsea

The run now stands at 13, and the questions being asked around Berekum Chelsea are no longer polite ones.

Market

Ahmed Khaled asks to leave Berekum Chelsea

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Yaw Dankwah keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Berekum Chelsea may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Tempers go at Berekum Chelsea

Berna 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.

Squad

Words at Berekum Chelsea training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matías Morales 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.

The terraces

Berekum Chelsea supporters have found a favourite in Isa Aji

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Isa Aji has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

In brief

62 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

4 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Rahman Abdul damages knee ligaments — 23 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 23 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match

No end in sight to Berekum Chelsea's wait for a win

7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Berekum Chelsea has to find a result from somewhere.

The terraces

The boos come down from three sides

“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 6 of the 30 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.

Market

Samuel Amofa asks to leave Berekum Chelsea

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

An unwelcome headline for Seth Paintsil

He will be fined, he will apologise, and he will play on Saturday. The order of those three tells you everything about what a football club actually values.

Squad

Matías Morales stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Matías Morales and Berekum Chelsea agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Berna 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 Berekum Chelsea this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Berekum Chelsea come up short against Bechem United

Bechem United left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Market

Rahman Abdul is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Berekum Chelsea has been clear about where Rahman Abdul stands, which is more than many ever get.

In brief

60 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

20 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Rahman Abdul

38 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Berekum Chelsea lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market

Mário Junior hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Berekum Chelsea can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Nasser El Khayati says Berekum Chelsea went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Player ratings

Matías Morales, 36, rolls back the years — 7.81

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.81 at 36, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Match

The wait goes on for Berekum Chelsea

5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

Real improvement from Kwesi Sorotu Badori at Berekum Chelsea

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Kwesi Sorotu Badori is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Berna 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 Berekum Chelsea this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Berekum Chelsea hit back inside 1 minutes

Liberty Professionals held the lead for 1 minutes, which is not long enough to enjoy it. Berekum Chelsea answered before the celebration had properly finished, and the shape of the afternoon changed with it.

Match

Berekum Chelsea share the spoils with Liberty Professionals

A 1‑1 draw with Liberty Professionals leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

In brief

57 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

30 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Rahman Abdul

59 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Berekum Chelsea lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market

Marvin Owusu has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Berekum Chelsea they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Mohammed Seidu is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

In brief

56 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Rahman Abdul

68 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Berekum Chelsea lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market

BA All Stars come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Berekum Chelsea did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

A muscle injury sidelines Berna for 15 days

Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Berekum Chelsea will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.

Squad

Real improvement from Frédérick Ntsama at Berekum Chelsea

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Frédérick Ntsama is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Tempers go at Berekum Chelsea

Nasser El Khayati 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.

Market

Medeama are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Berekum Chelsea will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

In brief

55 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

16 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Rahman Abdul

75 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Berekum Chelsea lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market

Mário Junior hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Berekum Chelsea can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Edwin Asamoah is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

Seth Paintsil 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 Berekum Chelsea this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Berna has improved at 24, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

Market

Berekum Chelsea shop where it costs nothing

Abdallah Hegazi signs, and the fee column stays empty. Deals like this look small in July and clever by March — or they are never mentioned again.

In brief

54 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

9 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Rahman Abdul

82 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Berekum Chelsea lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

Augustine Agyapong is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Market

Medeama come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Berekum Chelsea did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Berna 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 Berekum Chelsea this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A late step up for Mário Junior

At 24 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

Market

Berekum Chelsea shop where it costs nothing

Ahmed Khaled signs, and the fee column stays empty. Deals like this look small in July and clever by March — or they are never mentioned again.

In brief

50 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

12 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Samuel Amofa damages knee ligaments — 45 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 45 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market

Marvin Owusu puts it in writing

“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 Berekum Chelsea, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Tempers go at Berekum Chelsea

Nasser El Khayati 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.

In brief

49 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

5 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Mohammed Seidu hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Berekum Chelsea can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Only the photograph left for Marvin Owusu

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Marvin Owusu will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Berekum Chelsea the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Seth Paintsil 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 Berekum Chelsea this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Berekum Chelsea training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matías Morales 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.

Squad

Kwesi Sorotu Badori signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Kwesi Sorotu Badori and Berekum Chelsea agree another 5 years.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Dele Israel

“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.

In brief

48 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

28 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Dele Israel hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Berekum Chelsea can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Berna 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 Berekum Chelsea this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Matías Morales 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.

In brief

42 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

17 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Nasser El Khayati hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Berekum Chelsea can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Matías Morales keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Berekum Chelsea may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

A last season at home is what Nasser El Khayati is after

It is sentimental, it is completely genuine, and it is the beginning of a departure nobody has announced. The club can be gracious about it or it can pretend not to have heard.

In brief

40 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

3 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Moro Traoré 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 Berekum Chelsea this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Matías Morales 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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Nasser El Khayati

“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.

In brief

39 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

26 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Morrison Anokye keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Berekum Chelsea may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Tempers go at Berekum Chelsea

Berna 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.

Squad

Words at Berekum Chelsea training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matías Morales 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.

In brief

33 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

15 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Johnson Amuzu asks to leave Berekum Chelsea

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Player ratings

Torric Jebrin scores twice — 8.60

Two goals and a mark of 8.60 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad

Ahmed Adams: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Berekum Chelsea have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Berna 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 Berekum Chelsea this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Matías Morales 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.

Match

Torric Jebrin sends Berekum Chelsea past Medeama

It finished 2‑1, and it was Torric Jebrin’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Berekum Chelsea.

Squad

Matías Morales 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.

Player ratings

Elvis Manu runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

The shop window has Dele Israel in it

Berekum Chelsea have let the market know Dele Israel can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

In brief

31 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

1 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Nasser El Khayati puts it in writing

“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 Berekum Chelsea, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match

The wait goes on for Berekum Chelsea

5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

Home is on Nasser El Khayati's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Berekum Chelsea are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Squad

Moro Traoré 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 Berekum Chelsea this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Matías Morales 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Johnson Amuzu

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Johnson Amuzu, and the manager let it.

Market

Berekum Chelsea and Berna are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Match

Point won or two lost for Berekum Chelsea?

Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Hearts of Oak? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.

Player ratings

Off the pace: Kofi Patric Ansu

A mark of 5.80 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.

In brief

26 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Samuel Amofa asks to leave Berekum Chelsea

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Seth Paintsil 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 Berekum Chelsea this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Berekum Chelsea training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matías Morales 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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Johnson Amuzu

“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.

Match

Berekum Chelsea find a way past Inter Allies

Inter Allies made Berekum Chelsea work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

One of those days for Seth Paintsil

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.37, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings

Moro Traoré runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

A promise honoured for Elvis Manu

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Berekum Chelsea told Elvis Manu something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

Player ratings

Samuel Tenedu was immovable

14 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.

In brief

  • Player ratings Nothing got past Berna
  • The terraces The press have found their man in Seth Paintsil
24 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Al-Riyadh come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Berekum Chelsea did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Dele Israel puts it in writing

“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 Berekum Chelsea, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Kennedy Mensah keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Berekum Chelsea may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Match

No end in sight to Berekum Chelsea's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Berekum Chelsea has to find a result from somewhere.

Market

Medeama watching Marvin Owusu

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Berekum Chelsea have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad

Words at Berekum Chelsea training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matías Morales 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Berekum Chelsea

Augustine Agyapong 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Berna

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Berna, and the manager let it.

Market

Still no ink between Berekum Chelsea and Berna

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Berekum Chelsea, another week without a signature from Berna.

In brief