“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Aduana Stars, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The name of Mohammed Bamba has come up in conversations Aduana Stars were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
A season average of 7.16 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Aduana Stars know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Aduana Stars can pretend not to have heard.
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Aduana Stars they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Aduana Stars pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.
A season average of 7.13 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Aduana Stars know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Bright Adjei will call it something else in private.
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Gregory Sekyere knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.