Baba Djiku

Central Defender - Hasaacas
12 Sep 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Baba Djiku

6 Edition

The Hasaacas Gazette

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Albert Mohammed out for 88 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Hasaacas will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Bernard Gyan 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 Hasaacas can pretend not to have heard.

Boardroom

Window shuts: 4 in, 2 out at Hasaacas

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 4 arrived, 2 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Dari Haruna rejects the move

Hasaacas had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Asante Kotoko, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad

Kwadwo Atiemo out for 66 days

The medical room confirms 66 days on the sidelines for Kwadwo Atiemo, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad

Tempers go at Hasaacas

Eric Oguocha 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

Kwame Baba pulls a muscle — 18 days out

The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 18 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Hasaacas

2 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.

Market

Hasaacas promote Thomas Boateng from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Thomas Boateng 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.

In brief

Back issues
5 Edition

The Hasaacas Gazette

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

37 days out for Gladson Kyereh after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Hasaacas will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market

Baba Djiku 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 Hasaacas can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Hasaacas turn down Aswan for Kwame Baba

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

Squad

Kwadwo Asamoah 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 Hasaacas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

BA All Stars tell Hasaacas: a squad player is not for sale

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.

Squad

A late step up for Kamaldeen Essien

At 26 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.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Dari Haruna is in the works

Hasaacas have made the call to Asante Kotoko. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

The dugout

Samuel Ayew 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.

Squad

Gladson Paintsil has company in his position

The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Gladson Paintsil keeps the shirt for now, at Hasaacas's convenience rather than his own.

In brief