Marked for Abeiku Baba
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Uneasy
Market26 Apr 2027
“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.
Squad26 Apr 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Daniel Asante 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.
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Uneasy
Squad19 Apr 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.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Amos 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.
Loan watch19 Apr 2027
“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 4 appearances in 33 say he has earned the hearing.
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Upbeat
Squad15 Feb 2027
Christian Adjei 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 ratings15 Feb 2027
Ninety minutes of Gladson Boateng at his very best
Marked 8.04. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Hasaacas.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Words at Hasaacas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bernard Wakaso 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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Abeiku Baba 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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Hasaacas, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Crisis
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 34. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market18 Jan 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.
Market18 Jan 2027
Isaac Wakaso 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Daniel Asante 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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Steady
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
No sign of nerves from Bernard Wakaso at 21 — 7.90
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Bernard Wakaso did not need any: 7.90, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match19 Dec 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Bernard Wakaso. 3‑1 against BA All Stars, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
A performance of 8.22 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words at Hasaacas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Amos 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.
Squad21 Dec 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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Uneasy
Match14 Dec 2026
Hasaacas sink to position 15
11 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market14 Dec 2026
Andrew Afful 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.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Daniel Asante 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Amos 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Abeiku Baba
“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.
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Crisis
Match14 Nov 2026
11 matches without a win for Hasaacas
The run now stands at 11, and the questions being asked around Hasaacas are no longer polite ones.
Match16 Nov 2026
Hasaacas sink to position 15
6 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market16 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.
Squad16 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 Hasaacas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match14 Nov 2026
Heart of Lions left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Uneasy
Match17 Oct 2026
7 matches without a win for Hasaacas
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Hasaacas are no longer polite ones.
Market19 Oct 2026
Jeffrey Amoah 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Daniel Asante 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 Oct 2026
Amos 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Abeiku Baba
“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.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.62 on the card, and the Hasaacas support went home talking about one name.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match17 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Hasaacas have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.