Patrick Djiku

Striker - Victoria United
13 Oct 2026
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Patrick Djiku

10 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Andre Gyan 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Wa All Stars

Kamaldeen Atiemo 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Nana Ofori

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

No hiding place for Andrew Partey

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

Squad

This league is too small for José Cantillana

He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Wa All Stars will not keep him by pretending otherwise.

Player ratings

The one thing Andre Owusu could not do

Shots: 5, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.

In brief

Back issues
9 Edition

The Victoria United Sentinel

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Brayann Nana is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 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.

Squad

Mohamed Niaré 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 Victoria United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Victoria United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Osas Okoro 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.

Squad

Joan Gaona 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.

Player ratings

Pierre Akono runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

Patrick Djiku keeps on missing

Shots: 9, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.

In brief

7 Edition

The Victoria United Sentinel

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

Real improvement from Patrick Fergani at Victoria United

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Patrick Fergani is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Tempers go at Victoria United

Dérrick Anye Fru 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.

Squad

A late step up for Bryan Nokoue

At 24 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

Squad

Facundo Moreira 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.

Match

Victoria United see off Aigle Royal de la Menoua

Three points for Victoria United, 2‑1 the final word against Aigle Royal de la Menoua in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Patrick Djiku

7.96, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Victoria United had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

In brief

4 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Abeiku Ofori hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Wa All Stars can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Wa All Stars turn down Inter Allies for Nana Bukari

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Álvaro Brun 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.

Market

The Andre Owusu conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: Vegalta Sendai will make the call about Andre Owusu this week. Wa All Stars have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

Market

Victoria United watching Patrick Djiku

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

Squad

This league is too small for Álvaro Brun

He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Wa All Stars will not keep him by pretending otherwise.

In brief