Marked for Adu Emmanuel
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad7 Dec 2026
Enock Otoo 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.
Match5 Dec 2026
Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at Berekum Chelsea training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Morgan Dala 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 dugout7 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Edwin Asamoah, and the manager let it.
Squad7 Dec 2026
The medical room confirms 56 days on the sidelines for Adu Emmanuel, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Seidu Abubakar commits to Berekum Chelsea for another 3 years.
Boardroom7 Dec 2026
The board have answered with money instead of encouragement, which is the only answer a manager ever wants. Spending it well is now entirely his problem.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Market7 Dec 2026
Adu Emmanuel is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Berekum Chelsea has been clear about where Adu Emmanuel stands, which is more than many ever get.
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Upbeat
Squad16 Nov 2026
Enock Otoo in a row with a teammate
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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at Berekum Chelsea training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Eric Ofori-Antwi 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 dugout16 Nov 2026
Something was said to Kofi Patric Ansu and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
Market16 Nov 2026
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Berekum Chelsea has been clear about where Emmanuel Sarpong stands, which is more than many ever get.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Yaw Dankwah 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.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Nana Kwame knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Berekum Chelsea, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Triumph
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
A brace, and Rahman Abdul takes the afternoon — 9.09
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Rahman Abdul provided it, and the 9.09 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
No sign of nerves from Vincent Klu Adjeu at 18 — 7.74
The hardest thing about being 18 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Vincent Klu Adjeu did not need any: 7.74, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Match17 Oct 2026
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Berekum Chelsea have 4 straight wins of it.
Squad19 Oct 2026
At 20 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Enock Otoo in a row with a teammate
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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Eric Ofori-Antwi 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 terraces19 Oct 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Nana Kwame has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.