Great Olympics left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Afriyie Gyan 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.
Everybody at Liberty Professionals saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 35 the decline is real and measurable — 3 points — and the only question left is how the club handles somebody it owes a great deal to.
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Isaac Wakaso after 1‑3, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
“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 The request is on a desk at Liberty Professionals, and it is not being withdrawn.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 Liberty Professionals people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
$940.0K settles it between the clubs for Edmund Bukari
Hasaacas have accepted the money. What Liberty Professionals do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
The offer from Zeleznicar Pancevo for Osman Addo 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.
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 5 arrived, 1 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
“I did not go to New Edubiase United to sit and watch. I want to come back to Liberty Professionals and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 25 matches say the rest.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yaw Dankwah 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 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.
“I watch every Liberty Professionals game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at New Edubiase United runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Liberty Professionals, another week without a signature from Ibrahim Sodiq.
Successful dribbles: 15. 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.
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Felix Gyan is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Bernard Inusah is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Sebastian Osigwe 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 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jonathan Amoah 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.
Level with 86 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon Liberty Professionals had all but put away. Medeama will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Liberty Professionals, and 0 appearances in 13 say he has earned the hearing.
Felix Ayew 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.
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 2‑2 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
Every signing waits for it and every press conference asks about it until it comes. It has come, Liberty Professionals have their man off the mark, and the second one is always easier.
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.
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Liberty Professionals, and 0 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
2 goals in 4 games at New Edubiase United — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Liberty Professionals updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Nqobani Biyela is living that version at Liberty Professionals, and it tends to show in the first month.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Carl Davordzie was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Bechem United have kept their man, and Liberty Professionals go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Jonathan Amoah has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Jonathan Amoah. 1‑0 against Inter Allies, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
“I watch every Liberty Professionals game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at New Edubiase United runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Liberty Professionals will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
20 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Liberty Professionals lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Liberty Professionals 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Afriyie Gyan 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.
Liberty Professionals 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.
“The easiest signature of my career.” Sebastian Osigwe and New Edubiase United agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Michael Yeboah 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 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.
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation New Edubiase United are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at New Edubiase United, another week without a signature from Olufemi Kayode.
Liberty Professionals have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.