Marked for Mohammed Atiemo
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Crisis
Match7 Oct 2026
The cup run ends for Hasaacas
4‑8 against Liberty Professionals, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Kwadwo Boateng could not have asked for more on his first appearance — 7.28
Debuts are survived rather than enjoyed. This one was enjoyed: 7.28, 1 goals, and a manager already being asked whether he starts again next week.
Market12 Oct 2026
“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.
Match10 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Hasaacas
7 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
The terraces12 Oct 2026
4-8, and long before the end the away end had switched from encouragement to something considerably more pointed. Nobody rings a phone-in about losing narrowly.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
No sign of nerves from Mohammed Atiemo at 18 — 7.90
The hardest thing about being 18 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Mohammed Atiemo did not need any: 7.90, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
A first appearance David Wakaso will want to forget — 5.72
Everybody's debut is one of two stories and this was the other one. 5.72, and the only consolation available is that nobody's career has ever been decided by ninety minutes in a shirt he had just been given.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Whether it was the goalkeeper or the ten in front of him is the argument that will fill every conversation in town this week. 2 saves does not settle it either way.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
A hand in 2 of them from Abraham Bukari — 7.92
Marked 7.92. There is a kind of forward whose value only shows up when you count what he was involved in rather than what he finished, and this is the day that argument makes itself.
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Uneasy
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market21 Sep 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 The request is on a desk at Hasaacas, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Samuel Wakaso is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Afriyie Addo 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 Hasaacas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Hasaacas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abeiku Adjei 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
Conceding is one thing; the response is what tells you about a dressing room. Abeiku Mohammed had Hasaacas level again within 4 minutes, and Wa All Stars never got to play with a lead at all.
Match19 Sep 2026
2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Emmanuel Ofori knocks on the manager's door
“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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
He was not in the side at half past three and he had settled it before five. Half an hour, and Hasaacas had a different afternoon.
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Steady
Market31 Aug 2026
Samuel 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Hasaacas say no — this time
The offer from Cotonsport Garoua for Afriyie Waris 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Afriyie Addo 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Jonathan Addo is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Abeiku Adjei 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Kwadwo Boateng and Hasaacas agree another 3 years.