The words a physio says slowly. 63 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
“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 The request is on a desk at Wa All Stars, and it is not being withdrawn.
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $16.1K — a club that wants Henry Kwaku Boateng enough to be asked twice.
Wa All Stars offered $26.0K; Aduana Stars said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
The phone has started ringing about Bernard Asamoah again, and this time the name on the line is BA All Stars. Wa All Stars are listening politely and promising nothing.
71 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Wa All Stars lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Asante Kotoko arrived with $930.0K and left with the best player in the building. The board will call it business; the queue at the ticket office will use other words.
Jonathan Adjei has gone, the accounts have $930.0K in them, and the supporters have the feeling of having been sold something themselves. Good business and a good decision are not always the same thing.
Wa All Stars have gone to Hearts of Oak with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Wa All Stars training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. a squad player 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.
Eyong Ofem 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.
78 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Wa All Stars lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $33.4K — a club that wants Paul Agyei enough to be asked twice.
$29.0K on the table at Heart of Lions. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
The offer went to Aduana Stars this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Jonathan Adjei 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.
Medeama wanted more than $26.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Wa All Stars training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. a squad player 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.
94 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Wa All Stars lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Jonathan Adjei 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.