Marked for Francis Asante
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Squad19 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Mohammed Fatau
114 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Liberty Professionals lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
A brace, and Afriyie Kudus takes the afternoon — 8.44
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Afriyie Kudus provided it, and the 8.44 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad19 Oct 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 Liberty Professionals this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Liberty Professionals training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Edwin Gyimah 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.
Loan watch19 Oct 2026
“I watch every Liberty Professionals game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at BA All Stars runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 11. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market19 Oct 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Andre Mohammed’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Steady
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Mustafa Yahaya 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 terraces21 Sep 2026
At 18 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Afriyie Kudus was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.10. 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
7 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Loan watch21 Sep 2026
“I did not go to BA All Stars to sit and watch. I want to come back to Liberty Professionals and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
Squad21 Sep 2026
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Liberty Professionals have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
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Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
A fracture rules Harrison Adjei out for 115 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason BA All Stars will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market17 Aug 2026
The offer from Asante Kotoko for Kwame Amoah was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad17 Aug 2026
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Tholithemba Nyawose is living that version at BA All Stars, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad17 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 BA All Stars this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Tholithemba Nyawose and BA All Stars agree another 3 years.
Market17 Aug 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Ernest Asamoah has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at BA All Stars.
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Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Liberty Professionals can pretend not to have heard.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Mehdi Khallati 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 Aug 2026
Patrick 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Liberty Professionals know it, and so does everybody who watches him.