Marked for Thompson Jasmine
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market10 May 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Medeama they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad10 May 2027
Stephen Appiah Asare 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.
Squad10 May 2027
Words at Medeama training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Thompson Jasmine 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 dugout10 May 2027
Denis Nya 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 Denis Nya is on it.
The dugout10 May 2027
The manager makes an example of Joshua Agyemang
“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.
Market10 May 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Felix Kyei’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Uneasy
Market26 Apr 2027
“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.
Match26 Apr 2027
Full time on the season at Medeama
Position 14 on 30 points. Every season is a story and this is the last line of it, and now the club has three months to decide what the next one is about.
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
A brace, and Kelvin Obeng takes the afternoon — 8.69
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Kelvin Obeng provided it, and the 8.69 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
The dugout26 Apr 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.
Match24 Apr 2027
The drought breaks for Medeama
11 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Hasaacas were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.
Match24 Apr 2027
A 3‑2 win over Hasaacas, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The terraces26 Apr 2027
He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
The dugout26 Apr 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Felix Kyei, and the manager let it.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Fatawu Sulemana 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.
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Uneasy
Market29 Mar 2027
Kelvin Obeng 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 Medeama can pretend not to have heard.
Squad29 Mar 2027
A falling-out at Medeama
Akpos Godbless and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad29 Mar 2027
26 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Godknows Dzakpasu 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 dugout29 Mar 2027
Fuzy Taylor 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 dugout29 Mar 2027
Rich Sackey asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
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 Ibrahim Nurudeen is on it.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Medeama. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Market29 Mar 2027
Medeama have made Rich Sackey available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
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Uneasy
Market15 Feb 2027
“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.
Market15 Feb 2027
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Adams Abdul Jabal will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Medeama the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad15 Feb 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 Medeama this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets15 Feb 2027
Medeama asked and Asante Kotoko said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Loan watch15 Feb 2027
“I watch every Medeama game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Ashanti Gold runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
“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 dugout15 Feb 2027
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 Joke Efevwerha is on it.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
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Crisis
Market28 Dec 2026
“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 Medeama, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Felix Kyei is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 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.
Market28 Dec 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Medeama is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Yussif Mubarik 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.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
“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.
Match26 Dec 2026
0‑1 to Heart of Lions, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad28 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Medeama
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Fatawu Sulemana was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Isaac Kyereh after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Looking ahead28 Dec 2026
A test against the best for Medeama
The team at the top of the table next, and the honest measure of where this side actually is. Anybody can beat the club below them; the question is what happens against Hasaacas.
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Crisis
Match28 Nov 2026
0‑3 to Bechem United, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Market30 Nov 2026
“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 Medeama, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match28 Nov 2026
6 matches without a win for Medeama
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Medeama are no longer polite ones.
Market30 Nov 2026
Only the photograph left for Kofi Asmah
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Kofi Asmah will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Medeama the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match28 Nov 2026
Medeama 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.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Joke Efevwerha, and the manager let it.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Medeama
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Fatawu Sulemana was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
Doors closed at Medeama
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.