From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match30 Oct 2027
The unbeaten run reaches 10. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad1 Nov 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.
Squad1 Nov 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Osafo Antwi and Great Olympics agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match18 Sep 2027
No end in sight to Great Olympics's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Great Olympics has to find a result from somewhere.
Market20 Sep 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Great Olympics is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad20 Sep 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match11 Sep 2027
No end in sight to Great Olympics's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Great Olympics has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad13 Sep 2027
38 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad13 Sep 2027
“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.
Squad13 Sep 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Jeffrey Adjei and Great Olympics agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Match11 Sep 2027
1-1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad13 Sep 2027
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad26 Jul 2027
The manager makes an example of Patrick Ayew
“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.
Squad26 Jul 2027
“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.
Squad26 Jul 2027
The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Seidu Ismaila plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market19 Jul 2027
No footballer has ever cost this club more, and the number will be read out every time he misplaces a pass for the next two years.
Market19 Jul 2027
The name of Phiwokuhle Mjolo has come up in conversations Great Olympics were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad7 Jun 2027
“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.
Market7 Jun 2027
Two seats in the directors' box were spoken for, and the name in the notebook was Mamudo Moro. Nothing has been offered yet.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad31 May 2027
“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.
Squad31 May 2027
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Mohammed Fatau has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
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Crisis
Market25 Jan 2027
No footballer has ever cost this club more, and the number will be read out every time he misplaces a pass for the next two years.
Match23 Jan 2027
0-4 to WAFA, 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market25 Jan 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.
Squad25 Jan 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.
Market25 Jan 2027
The paperwork is done: David Adjei joins from Hasaacas in a deal worth $17.0K. Now comes the harder part.