Marked for Baba Atiemo
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad29 Mar 2027
32 goals and a season average of 7.74. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad29 Mar 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Mohammed Inusah
97 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Liberty Professionals lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match27 Mar 2027
3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Player ratings29 Mar 2027
A brace, and Andrew Asamoah takes the afternoon — 9.10
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Andrew Asamoah provided it, and the 9.10 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings29 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad29 Mar 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Liberty Professionals this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings29 Mar 2027
Ninety minutes of Mohammed Nuhu at his very best
Marked 8.47. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Liberty Professionals.
Player ratings29 Mar 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.41, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Baba Atiemo 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.
Back issues
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Upbeat
Squad22 Mar 2027
A season average of 7.71 with 30 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad22 Mar 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Mohammed Inusah
104 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Liberty Professionals lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Edmund Kudus: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Liberty Professionals have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Kwadwo Boateng 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.
Match20 Mar 2027
A 2‑1 win over Asante Kotoko, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The terraces22 Mar 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Francis Afful has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.52, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
A performance of 8.19 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 12. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Steady
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Mustafa Yahaya 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.
Squad22 Feb 2027
“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.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Words at Liberty Professionals training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Baba Atiemo 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.
Squad22 Feb 2027
A booking nobody needed, on a night the game was already won. Liberty Professionals lose a player for the most avoidable reason there is.
Match20 Feb 2027
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Aduana Stars defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
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Steady
Squad1 Feb 2027
Defences have started doubling up on Andrew Asamoah
24 goals and a season average of 7.64 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Market1 Feb 2027
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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Market1 Feb 2027
“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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Liberty Professionals this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match30 Jan 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Andrew Asamoah. 4‑3 against WAFA, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings1 Feb 2027
One of those days for Felix Gyan
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.01, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings1 Feb 2027
The cruellest goal, and it is Emmanuel Acquah's
A touch he did not want, a bounce he could not have read, and his name in the wrong column. There is no consoling a man after one of these, and Liberty Professionals will not try tonight.
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Triumph
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
A brace, and Andrew Asamoah takes the afternoon — 9.40
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Andrew Asamoah provided it, and the 9.40 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad28 Dec 2026
18 goals and a season average of 7.52. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Match26 Dec 2026
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Mustafa Yahaya 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 terraces28 Dec 2026
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.42, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words at Liberty Professionals training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ernest Gyan 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.
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Upbeat
Squad14 Dec 2026
Jonathan Asante damages knee ligaments — 21 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 21 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.
Match12 Dec 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 9 matches without defeat is a foundation Liberty Professionals did not have in the autumn.
Market14 Dec 2026
“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.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
1 for Kwadwo Boateng, marked 7.56, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Squad14 Dec 2026
13 goals and a season average of 7.37. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Kwadwo Boateng 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.
Match12 Dec 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Francis Afful. 3‑1 against Bechem United, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The terraces14 Dec 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Francis Afful has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Uneasy
Squad9 Nov 2026
Jonathan Asante damages knee ligaments — 58 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 58 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.
Market9 Nov 2026
Osman Essien 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 Liberty Professionals can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad9 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Liberty Professionals this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ernest Mwankurinah, and the manager let it.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Amos Ayew asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Steady
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 49. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Jonathan Asante damages knee ligaments — 72 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 72 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.
Market26 Oct 2026
“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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Liberty Professionals this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes of Mohammed Nuhu at his very best
Marked 8.00. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Liberty Professionals.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A season average of 7.23 with 8 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
The cruellest goal, and it is Jeffrey Nuhu's
A touch he did not want, a bounce he could not have read, and his name in the wrong column. There is no consoling a man after one of these, and Liberty Professionals will not try tonight.
Match24 Oct 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Ernest Gyan 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.
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Triumph
Squad28 Sep 2026
Jonathan Asante damages knee ligaments — 100 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 100 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Kwadwo Partey out for 31 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Liberty Professionals will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match26 Sep 2026
3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.85, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market28 Sep 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Match26 Sep 2026
4 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Market28 Sep 2026
Abdul Wakaso has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Liberty Professionals they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom28 Sep 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Abdul Wakaso has agreed terms with Heart of Lions for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Steady
Squad31 Aug 2026
Kwadwo Partey breaks a bone — 60 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 60 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Jonathan Asante damages knee ligaments — 128 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 128 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
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Steady
Market3 Aug 2026
Baba Atiemo 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 Liberty Professionals can pretend not to have heard.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Mustafa Yahaya 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Liberty Professionals know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Liberty Professionals training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jeffrey Nuhu 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Andrew Asamoah asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.