Adu Emmanuel

Goalkeeper - Berekum Chelsea
28 Aug 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Adu Emmanuel

55 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

16 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Berekum Chelsea sell their best player to Hearts of Oak

$670.0K is a serious amount of money and it does not play centre-forward. Everybody in the dressing room knows who used to be looked at when it went wrong.

Market

Terms done: Marvin Owusu is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Medeama waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Berekum Chelsea is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

The terraces

Supporters turn on the $670.0K sale of Johnson Amuzu

He is going to Hearts of Oak, the club has $670.0K it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.

Squad

The step up is real for Edwin Asamoah

At 21 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Berekum Chelsea

Seidu Abubakar 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.

Squad

Late improvement for Michael Mensah Awuah

At 27 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 3 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.

Transfer targets

San Diego Football Club tell Berekum Chelsea: Emmanuel Boateng is not for sale

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.

Squad

Isaac Mintah 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 targets

A loan move for Hubert Gyau is in the works

Berekum Chelsea have made the call to Asante Kotoko. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

In brief

Back issues
45 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

7 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Ashanti Gold come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Berekum Chelsea did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the Berekum Chelsea boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Market

Emmanuel Sarpong puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Berekum Chelsea, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout

Adu Emmanuel keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Berekum Chelsea may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Transfer targets

Samuel Ezekiel due for a Berekum Chelsea medical

Everything agreed with Ikorodu City, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad

Tempers go at Berekum Chelsea

Thomas Agyepong 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.

Squad

Words at Berekum Chelsea training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Edwin Asamoah 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.

Squad

Vincent Klu Adjeu signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Vincent Klu Adjeu and Berekum Chelsea agree another 4 years.

Transfer targets

Berekum Chelsea ask about Abdul Awudu

A loan enquiry to Vizela: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

In brief

43 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

24 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Johnson Amuzu puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Berekum Chelsea, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

A falling-out at Berekum Chelsea

Thomas Agyepong 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 Berekum Chelsea training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Edwin Asamoah 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.

In brief

39 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

26 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Johnson Amuzu 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.

Squad

A falling-out at Berekum Chelsea

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

Squad

Edwin Asamoah 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.

In brief

37 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

12 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout

Adu Emmanuel says Berekum Chelsea went back on their word

“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.

Squad

Words exchanged at Berekum Chelsea

Thomas Agyepong 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

Words at Berekum Chelsea training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Edwin Asamoah 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.

Squad

Fataho Nerie signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Fataho Nerie and Berekum Chelsea agree another 4 years.

The dugout

No hiding place for Fataho Nerie

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Fataho Nerie, and the manager let it.

The dugout

Rahman Abdul gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Rahman Abdul is on it.

In brief

36 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

5 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout

Prince Anane: 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.” Berekum Chelsea have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Tempers go at Berekum Chelsea

Thomas Agyepong 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.

Squad

Edwin Asamoah 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

Adu Emmanuel 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 dugout

Morrison Anokye gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Morrison Anokye is on it.

Market

The shop window has Johnson Amuzu in it

Berekum Chelsea have let the market know Johnson Amuzu can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

In brief

29 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

No end in sight to Berekum Chelsea's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Berekum Chelsea has to find a result from somewhere.

Player ratings

Thomas Agyepong was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 23. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad

Words exchanged at Berekum Chelsea

Thomas Agyepong 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

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 terraces

The crowd has taken to Edwin Asamoah

At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Player ratings

Edwin Asamoah stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.20 on the card, and the Berekum Chelsea support went home talking about one name.

The dugout

Kwadwo Djiku on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Kwadwo Djiku after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Adu Emmanuel

“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.

The dugout

The form table has caught Charles Agyemang

Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.

In brief

17 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

No end in sight to Berekum Chelsea's wait for a win

7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Berekum Chelsea has to find a result from somewhere.

The dugout

Adu Emmanuel says Berekum Chelsea went back on their word

“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.

Squad

Words exchanged at Berekum Chelsea

Thomas Agyepong 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.

Match

Berekum Chelsea come up short against WAFA

WAFA left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

A row about effort at Berekum Chelsea

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

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑2 defeat, delivered by Kwadwo Djiku to a room that had heard them before.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Emmanuel Sarpong

Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The dugout

Marvin Owusu 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 dugout

Berekum Chelsea keep their word to Charles Agyemang

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

In brief

15 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

No end in sight to Berekum Chelsea's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Berekum Chelsea has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Thomas Agyepong 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.

Match

Berekum Chelsea cannot find the net

3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

Match

A bad afternoon for Berekum Chelsea against Hasaacas

0‑2 to Hasaacas, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout

Kwadwo Djiku faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Kwadwo Djiku after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

Squad

Words at Berekum Chelsea training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Seidu Abubakar 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.

Player ratings

Thomas Agyepong beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

Mark Ugboh wants out of the dugout

“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Berekum Chelsea will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Kofi Patric Ansu

“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.

In brief

13 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Eric Ofori-Antwi stands alone

8 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Squad

Words exchanged at Berekum Chelsea

Thomas Agyepong 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

A row about effort at Berekum Chelsea

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

Match

A bad afternoon for Berekum Chelsea against Ashanti Gold

0‑1 to Ashanti Gold, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Kwadwo Djiku to a room that had heard them before.

The dugout

Adu Emmanuel 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 dugout

Morrison Anokye has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Berekum Chelsea 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Thomas Agyepong

Successful dribbles: 10. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The dugout

Marvin Owusu does not fit this one

Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.

In brief