Marked for Stephen Appiah Asare
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market31 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Wasiu Jimoh 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Edwin Gyimah 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.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
New Edubiase United have made the call to Aduana Stars. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
New Edubiase United have made the call to Bechem United. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A new face in his position, and Michael Yeboah suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. New Edubiase United have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
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From our football correspondent
Steady
Market24 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Edmund Adjei 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A move Sa'ad Tijjani would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Sa'ad Tijjani is living that version at Hearts of Oak, and it tends to show in the first month.
Market24 Aug 2026
Berekum Chelsea paid $200.0K and Hearts of Oak took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Hearts of Oak asked and Mamelodi Sundowns said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market24 Aug 2026
The name of Stephen Appiah Asare has come up in conversations Hearts of Oak were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad24 Aug 2026
This league is too small for Edmund Adjei
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Hearts of Oak will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
A loan move for Kegan Johannes is in the works
Hearts of Oak have made the call to Mamelodi Sundowns. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to Bendel Insurance: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad24 Aug 2026
Wasiu Jimoh 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at New Edubiase United training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Newton Adebayo 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. New Edubiase United will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
Squad24 Aug 2026
19 new faces, and New Edubiase United are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Hearts of Oak have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.