Marked for Bernard Gyan
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Steady
Match26 Dec 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 Dec 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.95, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Kwadwo Asamoah 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
He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
A performance of 8.30 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
A masterclass from Baba Ayew
Marked 8.07 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of David Ofori
“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.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Bernard Owusu, on a 3‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
Back issues
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Crisis
Squad21 Dec 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 Hasaacas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
This is not rotation. Isaac Boateng has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Hasaacas is pretending otherwise.
Match19 Dec 2026
Hearts of Oak left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Sharif Shuaib
“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.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Hasaacas told Sharif Shuaib something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
Squad21 Dec 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ahmed Adams commits to Hasaacas for another 1 years.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Shots: 12, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
Squad21 Dec 2026
No place for Ahmed Adams in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Hasaacas are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
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Steady
Market7 Dec 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.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Hasaacas
Kwadwo Asamoah 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Osman Schlupp and Hasaacas agree another 1 years.
Loan watch7 Dec 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Hasaacas, and 0 appearances in 17 say he has earned the hearing.
Match5 Dec 2026
Level with 91 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon Hasaacas had all but put away. Heart of Lions will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.93 on the card, and the Hasaacas support went home talking about one name.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Jeffrey Djiku makes the team of the month
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Match5 Dec 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Heart of Lions leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Upbeat
Squad2 Nov 2026
32 days out for Albert Mohammed 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.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
A brace, and Bernard Gyan takes the afternoon — 8.46
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Bernard Gyan provided it, and the 8.46 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad2 Nov 2026
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.
Match31 Oct 2026
Bechem United made Hasaacas work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The terraces2 Nov 2026
He is 19 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Match31 Oct 2026
Another one collected away from home
3 on the bounce on the road for Hasaacas. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sharif Shuaib, and the manager let it.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Baba Ayew was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.54. 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Baba Djiku is no longer first choice
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Baba Djiku has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
In brief
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Player ratings
Kwadwo Asamoah runs at them all day
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Squad
Baba Ayew makes the team of the month
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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Upbeat
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Nobody could get near Baba Ayew
Successful dribbles: 36. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match17 Oct 2026
Cup progress for Hasaacas
A 2‑1 win over Liberty Professionals, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Squad19 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Albert Mohammed out for 46 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.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
A brace, and Kwadwo Asamoah takes the afternoon — 8.95
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Kwadwo Asamoah provided it, and the 8.95 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
No sign of nerves from Francis Afful at 16 — 7.97
The hardest thing about being 16 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Francis Afful did not need any: 7.97, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad19 Oct 2026
At 23 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Hasaacas
Kwadwo Asamoah and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The terraces19 Oct 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Kwadwo Asamoah 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 ratings19 Oct 2026
A performance of 8.03 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
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Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
60 days out for Albert Mohammed 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Kwadwo Asamoah 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
38 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Osman Schlupp and Hasaacas agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Loan watch5 Oct 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Hasaacas, and 0 appearances in 8 say he has earned the hearing.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match3 Oct 2026
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“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.
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Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Albert Mohammed out for 74 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Hasaacas
Kwadwo Asamoah and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match19 Sep 2026
Aduana Stars left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Market21 Sep 2026
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Baba Djiku may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Kamaldeen Adjei dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Market21 Sep 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Kwame Baba’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Triumph
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 47. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Albert Mohammed out for 81 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.
Market14 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Hasaacas
Eric Oguocha 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 terraces14 Sep 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Kwadwo Asamoah 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Bernard Gyan’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Hasaacas.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Marked 8.00 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Osman Inusah commits to Hasaacas for another 3 years.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
“I did not go to Great Olympics to sit and watch. I want to come back to Hasaacas and fight for my place.” 1 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
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Steady
Squad7 Sep 2026
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.
Market7 Sep 2026
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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
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 targets7 Sep 2026
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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The medical room confirms 66 days on the sidelines for Kwadwo Atiemo, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad7 Sep 2026
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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
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.
Market7 Sep 2026
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.
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Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
A fracture rules Gladson Kyereh out for 52 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Market17 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Hasaacas
Kwadwo Asamoah 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
A loan move for Sharif Shuaib is in the works
Hasaacas have made the call to Hearts of Oak. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Bernard Mohammed and Hasaacas agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Albert Mohammed, and the manager let it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Hasaacas
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Harrison Kudus was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.