Michael Quarcoo

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Ashanti Gold
3 Jan 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Michael Quarcoo

18 Edition

The Ashanti Gold Sentinel

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Tashreeq Matthews beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 45. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout

Michael Quarcoo: 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.” Ashanti Gold have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Match

Ashanti Gold refuse to drop out of the race

Position 3, 26 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Ashanti Gold

The unbeaten run reaches 9. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad

Words exchanged at Ashanti Gold

Anderson Asiedu and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

Tashreeq Matthews 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.

Looking ahead

Ashanti Gold and Hearts of Oak meet at the summit

The fixture the rest of the division is looking forward to more than either of the sides in it. Both know a win changes the season and a defeat does not end it, which is what makes it hard to play.

Match

Ashanti Gold rescue it on 86 minutes

Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 86. Liberty Professionals had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.

Match

Ashanti Gold and Liberty Professionals take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

In brief

Back issues
17 Edition

The Ashanti Gold Sentinel

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Whatever happens, Ashanti Gold do not lose

8 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Squad

A falling-out at Ashanti Gold

Anderson Asiedu and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Suleiman Abdullahi

“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.

Squad

Nicholas Ablido 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.

The dugout

Kelvin Abrefa has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Ashanti Gold will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Afriyie Asamoah was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Ashanti Gold dressing room was either.

The dugout

Somebody else is better right now than Joseph Ablorh

The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.

Player ratings

Evans Mensah 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.

Match

Ashanti Gold draw a blank against Hasaacas

The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Hasaacas defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.

In brief

14 Edition

The Ashanti Gold Sentinel

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Evans Mensah

Successful dribbles: 32. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

Ashanti Gold refuse to drop out of the race

Position 3, 18 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Squad

A falling-out at Ashanti Gold

Justus Ohanu and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Words at Ashanti Gold training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nicholas Ablido 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 dugout

Michael Quarcoo 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.

Market

Talks stall between Ashanti Gold and Timothy Zechariah

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

Player ratings

Tashreeq Matthews takes the honours

Marked 7.64 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Ashanti Gold had the best player on the pitch.

The dugout

Afriyie Asamoah: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

Squad

Mustafa Yahaya suspended

One booking too many, and Mustafa Yahaya sits out. Ashanti Gold lose him for the sort of avoidable reason that makes a manager's week longer.

In brief

9 Edition

The Ashanti Gold Sentinel

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

24 days out for Andre Djiku after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Ashanti Gold will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Match

Ashanti Gold make it 3 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Ashanti Gold have 3 straight wins of it.

Squad

A falling-out at Ashanti Gold

Anderson Asiedu and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

A row about effort at Ashanti Gold

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Tashreeq Matthews was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

Tashreeq Matthews sends Ashanti Gold past Inter Allies

It finished 1‑0, and it was Tashreeq Matthews’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Ashanti Gold.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Tashreeq Matthews at his very best

Marked 8.33. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Ashanti Gold.

The dugout

Michael Quarcoo 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

Too much change too quickly at Ashanti Gold

25 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.

The dugout

Afriyie Asamoah has his say

“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Afriyie Asamoah on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.

In brief