Bernard Schlupp

Central Midfielder - Wa All Stars
10 Jul 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Bernard Schlupp

47 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

21 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Kamaldeen Mohammed damages knee ligaments — 131 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 131 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market

Wa All Stars sell their best player to Liberty Professionals

$45.0K is a serious amount of money and it does not play centre-forward. Everybody in the dressing room knows who used to be looked at when it went wrong.

Squad

José Vieira breaks a bone — 102 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 102 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

In brief

Back issues
44 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

31 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Ernest Paintsil

37 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.

Squad

José Vieira breaks a bone — 123 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 123 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Amos Wakaso 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.

In brief

42 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

17 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Bernard Schlupp damages knee ligaments — 14 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 14 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match

Wa All Stars up to position 2

65 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Squad

Osman Bukari in a row with a teammate

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.

In brief

41 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

10 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Bernard Schlupp

22 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.

Market

Yaw Bukari puts it in writing

“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 Wa All Stars, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Isaac Gyan in a row with a teammate

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.

In brief

40 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

3 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Bernard Schlupp damages knee ligaments — 30 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 30 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market

Amos Wakaso 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.

Squad

Albert Djiku says Wa All Stars went back on their word

“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.

In brief

39 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

26 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Bernard Schlupp damages knee ligaments — 37 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 37 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market

Daniel Kyereh 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.

Squad

Isaac Gyan in a row with a teammate

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.

In brief

38 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

19 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Bernard Schlupp

44 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.

Match

Wa All Stars are in among the leaders

Position 2 and 65 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Squad

Abdul Sulemana: 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.

In brief

37 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

12 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Bernard Schlupp

51 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.

Squad

Osman Bukari in a row with a teammate

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.

Squad

Words at Wa All Stars training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Isaac 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.

In brief

36 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

5 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Bernard Schlupp

58 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.

Market

IFK Goteborg come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Wa All Stars did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Yaw Bukari 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Wa All Stars

Osman Bukari 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.

Squad

Isaac 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.

Squad

Kwame Appiah 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.

In brief

35 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

29 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Bernard Schlupp

65 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.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Osman Bukari

There were 10 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad

Tempers go at Wa All Stars

Isaac Gyan 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.

Squad

Bernard Schlupp is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.25 with 11 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Match

New Edubiase United take the points off Wa All Stars

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Player ratings

Johnson Nsumoh runs at them all day

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.

In brief

34 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

22 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Bernard Schlupp

72 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.

Match

Wa All Stars refuse to drop out of the race

Position 2, 65 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Wa All Stars

Osman Bukari 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

Nobody wins at Wa All Stars

9 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

Squad

Isaac 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.

Squad

Getting past Osman Bukari has become the hardest job in the division

13 clean sheets and counting. Forwards used to back themselves here; now they shoot early, shoot wide, and look for somebody to blame.

Match

Wa All Stars see off Inter Allies

Three points for Wa All Stars, 1‑0 the final word against Inter Allies in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Albert Essien

Marked 8.21 — 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 ratings

Nana Partey runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 9. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

33 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

15 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Bernard Schlupp damages knee ligaments — 80 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 80 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Player ratings

Both of them Felix Paintsil's — 8.79

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.79, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Market

Amos Wakaso puts it in writing

“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 Wa All Stars, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Osman Bukari in a row with a teammate

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.

Squad

Words at Wa All Stars training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Isaac 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.

Match

Wa All Stars get the job done against Bechem United

A 2‑1 win over Bechem United, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

Felix Paintsil is carrying Wa All Stars

13 goals and a season average of 7.20. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Nana Partey

Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

Both jobs done by Nana Afful — 7.59

A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 10 actions, 7.59, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.

In brief

32 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

8 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Bernard Schlupp damages knee ligaments — 87 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 87 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market

Yaw Bukari 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.

Squad

Albert Djiku says Wa All Stars went back on their word

“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.

Squad

Osman Bukari stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Osman Bukari and Wa All Stars agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Isaac Gyan in a row with a teammate

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.

Match

Wa All Stars 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.

In brief

31 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

1 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Bernard Schlupp damages knee ligaments — 94 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 94 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Osman Bukari

There were 10 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Match

Chastening afternoon for Wa All Stars

A 0‑3 beating by Liberty Professionals was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Squad

Tempers go at Wa All Stars

Isaac Gyan 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Osman Bukari

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Osman Bukari, and the manager let it.

Boardroom

Inquest at Wa All Stars

The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.

In brief

30 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

22 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Bernard Schlupp damages knee ligaments — 101 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 101 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match

Wa All Stars up to position 2

58 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Wa All Stars

The unbeaten run reaches 8. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad

Tempers go at Wa All Stars

Osman Bukari 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.

Squad

Isaac 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.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Bernard Schlupp

11 goals and a season average of 7.25 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Match

Wa All Stars find a way past Great Olympics

Great Olympics made Wa All Stars work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

Felix Paintsil in the eights

A performance of 8.09 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings

The pass was always on for Nana Afful

Chances created: 12. Somebody has to open a door before anybody can walk through it, and he spent the afternoon opening doors.

In brief

  • Player ratings Nobody could get near Nana Partey
  • Player ratings Isaac Gyan spends the afternoon fouling
29 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Bernard Schlupp damages knee ligaments — 108 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 108 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market

Amos Wakaso puts it in writing

“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 Wa All Stars, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match

Whatever happens, Wa All Stars do not lose

7 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Squad

Tempers go at Wa All Stars

Isaac Gyan 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 find a way past Ashanti Gold

Ashanti Gold made Wa All Stars work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

Albert Essien was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.13. 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.

Squad

Words at Wa All Stars training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Francis 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.

Squad

Getting past Osman Bukari has become the hardest job in the division

11 clean sheets and counting. Forwards used to back themselves here; now they shoot early, shoot wide, and look for somebody to blame.

Market

The Nana Afful question follows Wa All Stars around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Nana Afful’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief

28 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Bernard Schlupp damages knee ligaments — 115 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 115 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

Tempers go at Wa All Stars

Osman Bukari 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

Whatever happens, Wa All Stars do not lose

6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Squad

Isaac 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.

Boardroom

Wa All Stars release $106.2K for the manager

The board have put money on the table rather than an encouraging word. What happens to it now is somebody else's problem, and somebody else's job.

Squad

A place in the month's best eleven for Felix Paintsil

Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Felix Paintsil has come out of that comparison in the side, and Wa All Stars have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.

Match

Wa All Stars and Aduana Stars cancel each other out

Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Aduana Stars came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.

Player ratings

Nana Partey runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 9. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

The pass was always on for Nana Afful

Chances created: 5. Somebody has to open a door before anybody can walk through it, and he spent the afternoon opening doors.

In brief

  • Player ratings The referee tires of Isaac Gyan
  • Market The window shut and Amos Addo is still in the building
27 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Bernard Schlupp

123 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.

Player ratings

Felix Paintsil scores twice — 8.91

Two goals and a mark of 8.91 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market

Yaw Bukari puts it in writing

“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 Wa All Stars, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Osman Bukari in a row with a teammate

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.

Squad

Words at Wa All Stars training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Isaac 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.

Match

Wa All Stars find a way past BA All Stars

BA All Stars made Wa All Stars work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Match

Felix Paintsil answers BA All Stars immediately

Conceding is one thing; the response is what tells you about a dressing room. Felix Paintsil had Wa All Stars level again within 3 minutes, and BA All Stars never got to play with a lead at all.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Albert Essien

Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Loan watch

Bernard Wakaso keeps scoring at Hasaacas

22 appearances away from home and 9 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.

In brief

26 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Bernard Schlupp damages knee ligaments — 131 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 131 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match

Wa All Stars refuse to drop out of the race

Position 2, 48 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.

Squad

Isaac Gyan in a row with a teammate

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.

Squad

Bernard Schlupp is carrying Wa All Stars

11 goals and a season average of 7.25. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Squad

Words at Wa All Stars training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Felix Paintsil 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.

Match

Honours even between Wa All Stars and Medeama

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Loan watch

Bernard Wakaso keeps scoring at Hasaacas

21 appearances away from home and 8 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.

Player ratings

Kwadwo Appiah changes it off the bench

He was not in the side at half past three and he had settled it before five. Half an hour, and Wa All Stars had a different afternoon.

Player ratings

The pass was always on for Nana Afful

Chances created: 6. Somebody has to open a door before anybody can walk through it, and he spent the afternoon opening doors.

In brief

25 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Wa All Stars make Seidu Saana the dearest name in their history

$110.0K. Fees like that buy a footballer and rent a debate: every touch will be measured against the number for a season at least.

Market

Amos 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 Wa All Stars can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Osman Bukari in a row with a teammate

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 terraces

Wa All Stars spend $110.0K on the signing the town wanted

It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $110.0K for Richard Afriyie, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.

Squad

Words at Wa All Stars training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Isaac 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Bernard Schlupp

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

Wa All Stars see off WAFA

Three points for Wa All Stars, 2‑1 the final word against WAFA in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Felix Paintsil

Marked 8.21 — 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.

Squad

Osman Bukari has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Wa All Stars 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.

In brief

24 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Johnson Nsumoh gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Johnson Nsumoh has just signed for Wa All Stars, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad

Isaac Gyan in a row with a teammate

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.

Squad

Words at Wa All Stars training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bernard Schlupp 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 ratings

Nobody could get near Bernard Schlupp

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

No hiding place for Osman Bukari

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Osman Bukari, and the manager let it.

Player ratings

Nana Afful takes the honours

Marked 7.66 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Wa All Stars had the best player on the pitch.

Match

Nana Afful rescues a point for Wa All Stars

It needed Nana Afful to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Hearts of Oak, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

Loan watch

7 goals on loan for Bernard Wakaso

19 appearances at Hasaacas and the goals keep coming. Wa All Stars are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.

Market

Wa All Stars pick up Johnson Nsumoh for nothing

The best deals are the ones the accountants never notice. Johnson Nsumoh arrives at Wa All Stars with his wages the only cost and something to prove the only clause.

In brief

23 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Felix Paintsil leads the rout of Hasaacas

5‑1, and Felix Paintsil took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Wa All Stars tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Match

Wa All Stars bow out of the cup

Ashanti Gold go through and Wa All Stars go home, 1‑3 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Player ratings

Both of them Felix Paintsil's — 8.80

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.80, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings

Albert Essien scores twice — 8.20

Two goals and a mark of 8.20 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Osman Bukari

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad

Abdul Sulemana: 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.

Squad

Isaac Gyan is named among the best

There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Wa All Stars will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.

Market

Yaw Bukari puts it in writing

“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 Wa All Stars, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Osman Bukari in a row with a teammate

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.

In brief

22 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Wa All Stars tear Heart of Lions apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Heart of Lions, and it could have been more.

Match

Wa All Stars up to position 2

40 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Squad

Kamaldeen Mohammed says Wa All Stars went back on their word

“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.

Match

Nobody wants to play Wa All Stars right now

3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Player ratings

Nana Partey runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Isaac Gyan in a row with a teammate

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.

Squad

Words at Wa All Stars training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bernard Schlupp 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 ratings

Ninety minutes of Felix Paintsil at his very best

Marked 8.65. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Wa All Stars.

Squad

Bernard Schlupp is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.24 with 11 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

In brief

21 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Amos 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 Wa All Stars can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Tempers go at Wa All Stars

Isaac Gyan 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.

Squad

Bernard Schlupp 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 ratings

Bernard Schlupp runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Wa All Stars get the job done against Berekum Chelsea

A 1‑0 win over Berekum Chelsea, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Felix Paintsil

A mark of 7.97, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

Squad

Kwadwo Appiah 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.

Squad

Wa All Stars pick somebody else ahead of Afriyie Essien

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

Loan watch

Bernard Wakaso keeps scoring at Hasaacas

16 appearances away from home and 6 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.

In brief

20 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Bernard Schlupp

Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Isaac Gyan in a row with a teammate

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.

Match

Kwadwo Appiah sends Wa All Stars past New Edubiase United

It finished 1‑0, and it was Kwadwo Appiah’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Wa All Stars.

Squad

Francis Wakaso 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 ratings

Samuel Wakaso takes the honours

Marked 7.77 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Wa All Stars had the best player on the pitch.

Squad

When it matters, Osman Bukari plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

In brief

19 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Osman Bukari

There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Player ratings

Bernard Schlupp runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 29. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Yaw Bukari puts it in writing

“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 Wa All Stars, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Tempers go at Wa All Stars

Isaac Gyan 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.

Squad

Bernard Schlupp 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.

Squad

Bernard Schlupp is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.21 with 10 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Player ratings

The game went through Felix Paintsil — 7.06

Marked 7.06 on 9 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.

Match

Honours even between Wa All Stars and Inter Allies

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Loan watch

Bernard Wakaso keeps scoring at Hasaacas

14 appearances away from home and 5 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.

In brief

18 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

No mercy from Wa All Stars

Bechem United will want this one forgotten quickly: 5‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Wa All Stars were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

Player ratings

Both of them Felix Paintsil's — 9.72

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.72, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad

A day Bernard Schlupp will not forget

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.

Match

Wa All Stars refuse to drop out of the race

Position 3, 30 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.

Squad

Isaac Gyan in a row with a teammate

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.

Squad

Words at Wa All Stars training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bernard Schlupp 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 ratings

Ninety minutes of Bernard Schlupp at his very best

Marked 8.40. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Wa All Stars.

Squad

No hiding place for Felix Paintsil

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Felix Paintsil, and the manager let it.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Nana Partey

Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

17 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Bernard Schlupp runs at them all day

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.

Squad

Tempers go at Wa All Stars

Isaac Gyan 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.

Squad

Words at Wa All Stars training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Francis 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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Afriyie Essien

“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.

Match

Point won or two lost for Wa All Stars?

Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Asante Kotoko? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.

Market

The Nana Afful question follows Wa All Stars around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Nana Afful’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief

16 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Bernard Schlupp runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 42. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Osman Bukari

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Market

Amos Wakaso puts it in writing

“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 Wa All Stars, and it is not being withdrawn.

In brief

15 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Bernard Schlupp runs at them all day

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.

Match

Whatever happens, Wa All Stars do not lose

11 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Squad

Osman Bukari keeps Wa All Stars in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Market

Yaw Bukari 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Wa All Stars

Isaac Gyan 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.

Squad

Bernard Schlupp 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.

In brief

14 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Wa All Stars are in among the leaders

Position 2 and 25 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Match

Wa All Stars cannot stop winning

4 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.

Squad

Isaac Gyan in a row with a teammate

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.

Match

Wa All Stars get the job done against Ashanti Gold

A 1‑0 win over Ashanti Gold, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Bernard Schlupp

Marked 8.10 — 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.

Squad

Francis Wakaso 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.

Squad

A place in the month's best eleven for Bernard Schlupp

Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Bernard Schlupp has come out of that comparison in the side, and Wa All Stars have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.

Squad

When it matters, Osman Bukari plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Nana Partey

Successful dribbles: 9. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

13 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

Bernard Schlupp runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Tempers go at Wa All Stars

Isaac Gyan 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.

Squad

Bernard Schlupp 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.

Match

Wa All Stars see off Aduana Stars

Three points for Wa All Stars, 1‑0 the final word against Aduana Stars in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

Wa All Stars count the cost of losing Ernest Paintsil

29 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Player ratings

Albert Essien was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.04. 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.

In brief

12 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

No mercy from Wa All Stars

BA All Stars will want this one forgotten quickly: 4‑1, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Wa All Stars were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

Player ratings

Bernard Schlupp scores twice — 8.45

Two goals and a mark of 8.45 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Nana Partey

Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

Whatever happens, Wa All Stars do not lose

8 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Squad

Kwame Baba is a better footballer than he was

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.

Squad

Isaac Gyan in a row with a teammate

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.

Squad

Words at Wa All Stars training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bernard Schlupp 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 ratings

Ninety minutes of Nana Afful at his very best

Marked 8.80. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Wa All Stars.

Squad

Kwadwo Appiah 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.

In brief

10 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Wa All Stars strike at the death to beat WAFA

There were 88 minutes on the clock and WAFA had all but banked the point. Football rarely reads the room, and Wa All Stars did not stop to explain themselves.

Match

Wa All Stars make it 3 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Wa All Stars have 3 straight wins of it.

Squad

Isaac Gyan in a row with a teammate

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.

Squad

Words at Wa All Stars training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bernard Schlupp 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.

The terraces

Wa All Stars supporters have found a favourite in Kwame Baba

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Kwame Baba 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.

Match

Wa All Stars get the job done against WAFA

A 1‑0 win over WAFA, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

A month that belonged to Albert Djiku

The young player of the month award goes to a 15-year-old at Wa All Stars who has looked like the finished article for four weekends running. The next four are the ones that decide whether he is.

Squad

The month belongs to Bernard Schlupp

The award is a small thing with a heavy meaning: for four weeks nobody in this division did his job better. Wa All Stars have the trophy on a shelf and the player in the side.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Bernard Schlupp

7.50, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Wa All Stars had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

In brief

  • Player ratings Kwame Baba changes it off the bench
  • Player ratings A defender's afternoon for Isaac Gyan
  • Player ratings Nobody could get near Yaw Bukari
9 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Wa All Stars leave it late against Hearts of Oak

Ninety minutes of very little, and then everything at once. The winner arrived in the 86th, and Hearts of Oak spent what remained of the match appealing to the referee rather than chasing the ball.

Squad

Tempers go at Wa All Stars

Isaac Gyan 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.

Squad

Amos Addo is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 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.

Squad

Bernard Schlupp 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.

Match

Wa All Stars find a way past Hearts of Oak

Hearts of Oak made Wa All Stars work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Bernard Schlupp

Marked 8.00 — 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.

Squad

Afriyie Essien 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.

Market

The Nana Afful question follows Wa All Stars around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Nana Afful’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Player ratings

Afriyie Adjei runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 11. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

8 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Nana Partey runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 28. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Kwame Baba is a better footballer than he was

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.

Squad

Isaac Gyan in a row with a teammate

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.

Match

Wa All Stars find a way past Hasaacas

Hasaacas made Wa All Stars work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Bernard Schlupp

Marked 8.27 — 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.

Squad

Francis Wakaso 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.

In brief

7 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Osman Bukari damages knee ligaments — 16 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 16 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Bernard Schlupp

Successful dribbles: 32. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Yaw Bukari 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Wa All Stars

Isaac Gyan 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.

Squad

Bernard Schlupp 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.

Squad

Wa All Stars pick somebody else ahead of Afriyie Essien

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

In brief

6 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

Osman Bukari damages knee ligaments — 23 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 23 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match

Bernard Schlupp settles it late for Wa All Stars

The 89th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and Bernard Schlupp decided nobody was going anywhere. Berekum Chelsea had no time left to answer.

Market

Daniel Kyereh 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Nana Partey

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Isaac Gyan in a row with a teammate

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.

Boardroom

2 academy players handed senior numbers at Wa All Stars

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Squad

Words at Wa All Stars training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bernard Schlupp 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.

Market

Isaac Schlupp steps up from the Wa All Stars academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Isaac Schlupp has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

One of our own: Isaac Adjei joins the Wa All Stars first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Isaac Adjei is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief

4 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Osman Bukari

40 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.

Market

Wa All Stars turn down Berekum Chelsea for Osman Bukari

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market

Jonathan Asante puts it in writing

“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 Wa All Stars, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Berekum Chelsea watching Samuel Wakaso

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Wa All Stars have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad

Isaac Gyan in a row with a teammate

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.

Squad

Words at Wa All Stars training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bernard Schlupp 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.

In brief

3 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Wa All Stars say no — this time

The offer from Aduana Stars for Isaac Gyan 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Wa All Stars

Isaac Gyan 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.

Market

Eyes on Kwame Baba again

The phone has started ringing about Kwame Baba again, and this time the name on the line is New Edubiase United. Wa All Stars are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad

Bernard Schlupp 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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Bernard Schlupp

“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.

Squad

Albert Djiku signs on for more

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

In brief

1 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Wa All Stars turn down Great Olympics for Kwame Baba

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market

Yaw Bukari 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.

Squad

Isaac Gyan in a row with a teammate

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.

Squad

Afriyie Essien stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Afriyie Essien and Wa All Stars agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Words at Wa All Stars training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bernard Schlupp 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.

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Jonathan Asante is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Wa All Stars has been clear about where Jonathan Asante stands, which is more than many ever get.

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