Albert Ayew

10 Edition

5 Oct 2026

From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

A first appearance Joseph Afful will want to forget — 5.71

Everybody's debut is one of two stories and this was the other one. 5.71, and the only consolation available is that nobody's career has ever been decided by ninety minutes in a shirt he had just been given.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Albert Ayew is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 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.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Holomo Mpeli 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

Squad A late step up for Holomo Mpeli
Squad Words at Heart of Lions training over how hard people work
Player ratings Kwesi Pong runs at them all day
Match Heart of Lions draw a blank against Asante Kotoko

9 Edition

28 Sep 2026

From our football correspondent Steady

Squad28 Sep 2026

Real improvement from Yussif Moro Owusu at Wa All Stars

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Yussif Moro Owusu is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

A chastening introduction for Andrew Addo — 5.68

It is a hard way to meet a crowd. Marked 5.68 on the day he was handed the shirt, and the important thing now is what the next one looks like.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Words at Wa All Stars training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. José Cantillana 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.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Abraham Atiemo 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 Wa All Stars this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match26 Sep 2026

Wa All Stars come up short against Hearts of Oak

Hearts of Oak left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Edmund Sulemana 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.

Loan watch28 Sep 2026

Albert Ayew has seen enough of Heart of Lions

“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 Wa All Stars, and 1 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.

Market28 Sep 2026

Wa All Stars bring in an old head

José Cantillana is 33 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Andre Owusu never got going

5.42 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.

In brief

Player ratings Nana Ofori runs at them all day
Player ratings An afternoon Claudinho will want back
Market Andre Gyan placed on the list

7 Edition

14 Sep 2026

From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad14 Sep 2026

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.

Match12 Sep 2026

Wa All Stars take the points off Heart of Lions

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Abednego Tetteh 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.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Albert Ayew 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.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Michael Ephson dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Nobody could get near Nana Kofi Babil

Successful dribbles: 11. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

Player ratings A day to forget for Michael Noumon
Player ratings Off the pace: Macaulley Kuma
Market Atta Kusi placed on the list
Market The market said no: Chauncy Freeman stays put

The Heart of Lions Herald

A first appearance Joseph Afful will want to forget — 5.71

Albert Ayew is a better footballer than he was

Holomo Mpeli in a row with a teammate

In brief

The Wa All Stars Courier

Real improvement from Yussif Moro Owusu at Wa All Stars

A chastening introduction for Andrew Addo — 5.68

Words at Wa All Stars training over how hard people work

Abraham Atiemo in a row with a teammate

Wa All Stars come up short against Hearts of Oak

Edmund Sulemana gets it from the manager

Albert Ayew has seen enough of Heart of Lions

Wa All Stars bring in an old head

Andre Owusu never got going

In brief

The Heart of Lions Herald

Ebenezer Abban falls out with a teammate over standards

Wa All Stars take the points off Heart of Lions

Abednego Tetteh gets it from the manager

Albert Ayew in a row with a teammate

Michael Ephson dropped after a run of poor form

Nobody could get near Nana Kofi Babil

In brief