Ishmael Addo

Central Midfielder - Heart of Lions
6 Sep 2026
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The Heart of Lions Herald

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad31 Aug 2026

Dickson Sakabutu damages knee ligaments — 37 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 37 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.

Market31 Aug 2026

Ebenezer Abban 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 Heart of Lions can pretend not to have heard.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Ishmael Addo is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 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

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4 Edition

The Heart of Lions Herald

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad24 Aug 2026

The knee: Dickson Sakabutu out for 44 days

44 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Heart of Lions lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad24 Aug 2026

A row about effort at Heart of Lions

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

Squad24 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at Heart of Lions

Ishmael Addo 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.

In brief