Thomas Bukari

Central Defender - Liberty Professionals
7 Nov 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Thomas Bukari

10 Edition

The Liberty Professionals Chronicle

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

The step up is real for Christian Amoah

At 21 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad

Cemran Dansin 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

Liberty Professionals get the job done against Heart of Lions

A 1‑0 win over Heart of Lions, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings

Bernard Adjei in the eights

A performance of 8.27 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad

Words exchanged at Liberty Professionals

Thomas 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.

Squad

Cemran Dansin named in the team of the month

A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Cemran Dansin is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.

The dugout

A satisfied Felix Baba

“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Felix Baba could afford to be generous.

Market

No place for Kwadwo Asamoah in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Kwadwo Asamoah has his answer from Liberty Professionals; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

Player ratings

David Nuhu keeps on missing

Shots: 6, 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

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The Liberty Professionals Chronicle

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Liberty Professionals tear Berekum Chelsea apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Berekum Chelsea, and it could have been more.

Player ratings

Both of them David Nuhu's — 8.98

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.98, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings

Daniel Asamoah runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 29. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

Cemran Dansin, 21, steals the show — 7.90

Marked 7.90 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Squad

Words at Liberty Professionals training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Cemran Dansin 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

A muscle injury and 14 days out for Emmanuel Paintsil

The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Liberty Professionals will quote 14 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.

Player ratings

Bernard Adjei was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.22. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Squad

100 appearances for Simon Obonde

100 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.

Squad

A falling-out at Liberty Professionals

Thomas Bukari and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

In brief

6 Edition

The Liberty Professionals Chronicle

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

David Nuhu puts it in writing

“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.

Boardroom

Window shuts: 7 in, 2 out at Liberty Professionals

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 7 arrived, 2 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Liberty Professionals

4 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Squad

Words at Liberty Professionals training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Cemran Dansin 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.

Market

Liberty Professionals promote Edmund Paintsil from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Edmund Paintsil has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

Abeiku Addo steps up from the Liberty Professionals academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Abeiku Addo has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

Felix Sulemana steps up from the Liberty Professionals academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Felix Sulemana has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Squad

Daniel Asamoah slips down the pecking order

The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Daniel Asamoah is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.

Boardroom

Liberty Professionals say no to the training-ground money

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.

In brief

3 Edition

The Liberty Professionals Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Cemran Dansin

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Liberty Professionals have done the hard part with Orlando Pirates, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Squad

Words at Liberty Professionals training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Daniel Asamoah 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

Tempers go at Liberty Professionals

Thomas Bukari 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 dugout

The manager makes an example of Albert Baba

“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.

Transfer targets

Liberty Professionals try to borrow Zalli Abdullahi

Rivers United 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.

Market

The shop window has Thomas Djiku in it

Liberty Professionals have let the market know Thomas Djiku can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

In brief

2 Edition

The Liberty Professionals Chronicle

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Berekum Chelsea come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Liberty Professionals did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Joseph Essien says no to Military Production

“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Joseph Essien had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.

Transfer targets

Gift Udoh turns down Liberty Professionals

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Ikorodu City keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad

Daniel Asamoah signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Daniel Asamoah and Liberty Professionals agree another 4 years.

Squad

A row about effort at Liberty Professionals

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Abraham Mensah was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

A falling-out at Liberty Professionals

Thomas Bukari and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

Kamaldeen Afful 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.

The dugout

Daniel Asamoah knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Daniel Asamoah trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market

The shop window has Christian Amoah in it

Liberty Professionals have let the market know Christian Amoah can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

In brief