Patrick Owusu

Striker - Free Agent
27 Apr 2028
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57 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

30 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Thomas Asante 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

Baba Wakaso has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Wa All Stars they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Cassius Mailula

Wa All Stars asked and Mamelodi Sundowns said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

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

Squad

Words at Wa All Stars training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jeffrey Inusah 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.

Transfer targets

Wa All Stars try to borrow Cassius Mailula

Mamelodi Sundowns 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 Thomas Asante question follows Wa All Stars around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Thomas Asante’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

The dugout

Amos Boakye knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Wa All Stars, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Squad

Andre Schlupp finally belongs at Wa All Stars

The language has come, the shrug has gone, and he argues in training like a man who expects to be here next year. None of it shows up on a fee and all of it shows up on the pitch.

In brief

Back issues
48 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

28 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Jonathan Djiku damages knee ligaments — 14 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 14 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.

Market

Thomas Asante 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.

Transfer targets

Kegan Johannes due for a Wa All Stars medical

Everything agreed with Mamelodi Sundowns, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Thabiso Sesane rejects the move

Wa All Stars had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Orlando Pirates, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad

Tempers go at Wa All Stars

Emmanuel 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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Gomolemo Kekana

Wa All Stars asked and Mamelodi Sundowns said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Words at Wa All Stars training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jeffrey Inusah 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.

Transfer targets

Wa All Stars ask about Siyabonga Mabena

A loan enquiry to Mamelodi Sundowns: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

The dugout

Amos Afful is still paying for one afternoon at Wa All Stars

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

In brief