Marked for Mohammed Seidu
From our football correspondent
Crisis
The terraces16 Aug 2027
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.
Boardroom16 Aug 2027
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.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Augustine Agyapong is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad16 Aug 2027
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.
Squad16 Aug 2027
At 27 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.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Words at Berekum Chelsea training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Morrison Anokye 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.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad3 May 2027
Kofi Patric Ansu damages knee ligaments — 42 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 42 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.
Boardroom3 May 2027
The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. David Ofori has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.
Squad3 May 2027
A fracture rules Marvin Owusu out for 14 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Berekum Chelsea will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market3 May 2027
“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.
Squad3 May 2027
“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.
Squad3 May 2027
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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market14 Sep 2026
Thomas Baba 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad14 Sep 2026
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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Mohammed Seidu is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Berekum Chelsea training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Samuel Amofa 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.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
Wages eat 105% of everything Berekum Chelsea earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Defensive actions: 16. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 16 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.