Jayson Nettey

Goalkeeper - Heart of Lions
26 Sep 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Jayson Nettey

54 Edition

The Heart of Lions Herald

9 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Atta Kusi out for 130 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Heart of Lions will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

The step up is real for Ishmael Addo

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.

Squad

A move Jayson Nettey would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Jayson Nettey is living that version at Heart of Lions, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad

At 21, Michael Noumon is already the best thing here

An average of 7.09 in a first team he is several years too young for. Heart of Lions have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.

Market

As if he never left: Jayson Nettey returns

Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Jayson Nettey is a Heart of Lions player again, and the town has its story of the summer.

Transfer targets

Heart of Lions rebuffed over Sule John

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Ashanti Gold have kept their man, and Heart of Lions go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

The dugout

No hiding place for George Osei

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

Market

No place for Danso Wiredu in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Danso Wiredu has his answer from Heart of Lions; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

Market

Heart of Lions and Jayson Nettey are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

In brief

Back issues
4 Edition

The Heart of Lions Herald

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Kwadwo Obeng Junior out for 74 days

74 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.

Squad

A fracture rules Fawzi Ali out for 123 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Heart of Lions will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Jayson Nettey asks to leave Heart of Lions

“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.

Transfer targets

Heart of Lions rebuffed over Mustapha Jah

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Floriana have kept their man, and Heart of Lions go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

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.

Squad

Kofi Asante 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 Heart of Lions this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

3 Edition

The Heart of Lions Herald

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Kwadwo Obeng Junior out for 82 days

82 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.

Squad

A falling-out at Heart of Lions

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

Transfer targets

Door shut on Kwame Waris

Heart of Lions asked and Liberty Professionals said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Ebenezer Abban 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.

Squad

Martin Karikari is a square peg at Heart of Lions

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

Market

Martin Karikari arrives on loan

Heart of Lions have taken Martin Karikari on loan from Hearts of Oak — cover where cover was needed.

In brief

1 Edition

The Heart of Lions Herald

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Kwadwo Obeng Junior damages knee ligaments — 97 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 97 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.

Squad

Ebenezer Abban stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Ebenezer Abban and Heart of Lions agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Lawrence Osei 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 Heart of Lions this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Heart of Lions training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ebenezer Abban 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.

Market

New Edubiase United watching Sheriff Alabani

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Heart of Lions have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Market

Still no ink between Heart of Lions and Lawrence Osei

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Heart of Lions, another week without a signature from Lawrence Osei.

In brief