“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 The request is on a desk at Asante Kotoko, and it is not being withdrawn.
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Asante Kotoko people have started saying his name in the past tense.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Asante Kotoko this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Abraham Bukari was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
6 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Asante Kotoko have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Prince Badu will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Asante Kotoko the goodbyes have quietly begun.
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.
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Mohamed Camara trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Everyone has stopped pretending: Berekum Chelsea will make the call about Solomon Nsoh this week. Asante Kotoko have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
“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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Deadline passes with 20 signed and 2 gone
That is the business done at Asante Kotoko until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
The offer from Wa All Stars for Shayibu Abubakari was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Abraham Bukari 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.
The deal that would have taken Solomon Nsoh to New Edubiase United has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Asante Kotoko with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Asante Kotoko have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Asante Kotoko training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Emmanuel 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 plan went upstairs and came back down. Nothing about that will make a headline anywhere else, and everybody who works at the training ground will remember it for years.
Nothing is announced when this happens and everybody knows. He is a bigger part of the plan at Asante Kotoko than he was a month ago, and the training ground worked that out before the team sheet said so.
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Keciorengucu keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Asante Kotoko can pretend not to have heard.
The offer from US Bougouni for Solomon Nsoh was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Kwame Opoku 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 terraces24 Aug 2026
Asante Kotoko spend $1.5M on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $1.5M for Abraham Bukari, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Rashid Abubakar was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Add another name to the list: Wa All Stars have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Shayibu Abubakari. The answer from Asante Kotoko has not changed — yet.
$1.1M settles it between the clubs for Ernest Essien
Hasaacas have accepted the money. What Asante Kotoko do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
$820.0K was the most the club would pay and Metropolitanos were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Asante Kotoko this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Asante Kotoko training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Peter Amidu Acquah 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.
Add another name to the list: US Bougouni have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Solomon Nsoh. The answer from Asante Kotoko has not changed — yet.
He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
Squad17 Aug 2026
5 new faces, and Asante Kotoko are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Asante Kotoko know it, and so does everybody who watches him.