Marked for Jonathan Partey
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad31 May 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 Hasaacas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 May 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Jeffrey Annan and Hasaacas agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad31 May 2027
Words at Hasaacas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jonathan Partey 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.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad10 May 2027
A season average of 7.11 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Hasaacas know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
Squad10 May 2027
Andre Mohammed 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.
Squad10 May 2027
The manager makes an example of Andre Djiku
“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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match19 Apr 2027
Hasaacas refuse to drop out of the race
Position 2, 72 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Andre Mohammed 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.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Jonathan Partey 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Player ratings29 Mar 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.
Squad29 Mar 2027
10 goals and a season average of 7.51. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
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 Hasaacas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings29 Mar 2027
Andre Mohammed was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.18. 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.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Words at Hasaacas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jonathan Partey 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.
Match27 Mar 2027
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Andre Mohammed has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Hasaacas will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Loan watch29 Mar 2027
25 appearances away from home and 5 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
Market29 Mar 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Gladson Boateng’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 31. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match13 Feb 2027
13 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
The terraces15 Feb 2027
Supporters turn on the $79.0K sale of Francis Wakaso
He is going to Ventforet Kofu, the club has $79.0K it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
Thomas Kudus, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.68
A mark of 7.68 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad15 Feb 2027
He is 20, he is averaging 7.13, and older professionals have started passing to him in the difficult minutes. That last part is the real scouting report.
Match13 Feb 2027
Hasaacas cannot stop winning
3 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.
Squad15 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 Hasaacas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Defences have started doubling up on Andre Mohammed
7 goals and a season average of 7.50 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Match30 Jan 2027
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 5‑0 against Bechem United, and it could have been more.
Squad1 Feb 2027
A season average of 7.46 with 26 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Market1 Feb 2027
The bid was some way short and Hasaacas did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Player ratings1 Feb 2027
No sign of nerves from Thomas Kudus at 20 — 8.37
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Thomas Kudus did not need any: 8.37, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Market1 Feb 2027
“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 ratings1 Feb 2027
Francis Wakaso, 35, rolls back the years — 7.93
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.93 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Match30 Jan 2027
Hasaacas make home a hard place to visit
12 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Market1 Feb 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Hasaacas is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
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 Hasaacas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 46. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market25 Jan 2027
Andre 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.
Match25 Jan 2027
Hasaacas are in among the leaders
Position 2 and 53 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Defences have started doubling up on Gladson Boateng
25 goals and a season average of 7.44 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Andre Mohammed 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.
Match23 Jan 2027
Asante Kotoko left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Match23 Jan 2027
Hasaacas are shipping goals every week
Two or more conceded in each of the last 4 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
Squad25 Jan 2027
The manager has not finished forgetting Andre Djiku's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Jonathan Partey 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.
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Squad14 Dec 2026
Defences have started doubling up on Abeiku Asante
36 goals and a season average of 7.83 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Squad14 Dec 2026
3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Match12 Dec 2026
Hasaacas make it 6 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Hasaacas have 6 straight wins of it.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Andre Mohammed 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
It finished 4‑3, and it was Abeiku Asante’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Hasaacas.
Match12 Dec 2026
7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Hasaacas and Medeama in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Marked 9.55 — 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.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match12 Dec 2026
Hasaacas make home a hard place to visit
8 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market2 Nov 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 Hasaacas, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match2 Nov 2026
Hasaacas are in among the leaders
Position 2 and 20 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Match31 Oct 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 8 matches without defeat is a foundation Hasaacas did not have in the autumn.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Edmund Kyereh 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.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.20, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad2 Nov 2026
The young player of the month award goes to a 20-year-old at Hasaacas who has looked like the finished article for four weekends running. The next four are the ones that decide whether he is.
Squad2 Nov 2026
The award is a small thing with a heavy meaning: for four weeks nobody in this division did his job better. Hasaacas have the trophy on a shelf and the player in the side.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Jonathan Partey 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.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Nobody's fault and entirely his: a goal that goes into the book with his name against it and nothing about it intended. Hasaacas deserved better, and so did he.
From our football correspondent
Steady
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.
Squad31 Aug 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Hasaacas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jonathan Partey 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.