Andre Baba

Defensive Midfielder - Wa All Stars
22 Feb 2027
Monday
Process

Marked for Andre Baba

29 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Eyong Ofem 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.

The dugout

Eyong Ofem: 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.” Wa All Stars have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Player ratings

Solomon Nsoh, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.65

A mark of 7.65 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Player ratings

A defender's goal wins it for Wa All Stars — 7.49

1 for Salim Uzair Baafada, marked 7.49, 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Wa All Stars

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and a squad player was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

Tempers go at Wa All Stars

Oarabile Booysen 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.

Match

Wa All Stars refuse to lose to Medeama

A point taken on 92 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.

Squad

Nana Djiku signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Nana Djiku and Wa All Stars agree another 3 years.

Match

Solomon Nsoh rescues a point for Wa All Stars

It needed Solomon Nsoh to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Medeama, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

In brief

Back issues
28 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Wa All Stars are in real trouble now

Position 15, 19 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Match

Wa All Stars end the wait against WAFA

It had gone 13 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.

Market

a squad player says no to OFK Beograd

“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. a squad player had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.

Market

Abeiku Amoah asks to leave Wa All Stars

“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 ratings

No sign of nerves from Oarabile Booysen at 19 — 7.83

The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Oarabile Booysen did not need any: 7.83, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

The dugout

Andre Baba keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Wa All Stars may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Words at Wa All Stars training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. a squad player 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.

Squad

Words exchanged at Wa All Stars

Oarabile Booysen 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 terraces

Wa All Stars supporters have found a favourite in Oarabile Booysen

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 19-year-old it feels ownership of. Oarabile Booysen 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.

In brief