Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Wa All Stars will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings13 Dec 2027
A brace, and Kwadwo Essien takes the afternoon — 9.14
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Kwadwo Essien provided it, and the 9.14 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
“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.
Taoufik Safsafi 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.
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Kwadwo Essien. 3‑2 against New Edubiase United, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Marked 8.15 — 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.
In brief
Player ratingsThe pass was always on for Afriyie Ofori
The terracesThe press have found their man in Kwadwo Essien
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Gladson Paintsil and Wa All Stars agree another 3 years.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Wa All Stars this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Wa All Stars this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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.
5 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.
In brief
Player ratingsThe pass was always on for Afriyie Ofori
84 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Wa All Stars lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Erick Flores 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.
91 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Wa All Stars lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Wa All Stars this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The 2-goal deficit was real and so was the recovery. Daniel Boateng was at the centre of it, WAFA were at the end of it, and everybody who left early will hear about this one for years.
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.43, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
Belal Ateya, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 8.38
A mark of 8.38 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
“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.
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.10 at 36, and nobody on the pitch was better.
10 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
A brace, and Amos Djiku takes the afternoon — 8.44
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Amos Djiku provided it, and the 8.44 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
The hardest thing about being 18 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Belal Ateya did not need any: 7.82, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Erick Flores 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.
2 goals inside twenty minutes with Amos Djiku in the middle of it, and Inter Allies unable to get near the ball long enough to change anything. Some matches are won before the first drink.
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Wa All Stars told Jonathan something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at Wa All Stars training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. David Asante 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.
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.94 at 36, and nobody on the pitch was better.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Wa All Stars this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 9 goals between Wa All Stars and Liberty Professionals, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Gladson Boateng was on a different afternoon to everybody else
9.21. 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.
“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 Wa All Stars, and 3 appearances in 13 say he has earned the hearing.
In brief
SquadDavid Asante falls out with a teammate over standards
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Daniel Asamoah: 3 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Erick Flores 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Wa All Stars training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Patrick Amoah 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.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Daniel Boateng was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.49. 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.
Two goals and a mark of 8.34 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Carlinhos 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.
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 8 goals between Wa All Stars and WAFA, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Squad5 Oct 2026
David 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.
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Jonathan Addo is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Erick Flores 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.
“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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Wa All Stars training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. David Asante 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.
Chances created: 10. Not on the scoresheet and not remotely anonymous — a passing performance that pulled a defence apart without leaving a mark on the column that gets read.
“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 terraces24 Aug 2026
Supporters turn on the $310.0K sale of Felix Afful
He is going to Hearts of Oak, the club has $310.0K 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.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Wa All Stars this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Aug 2026
David 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.
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Wa All Stars will not keep him by pretending otherwise.