Ernest Baba

Central Midfielder - Liberty Professionals
6 Jun 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Ernest Baba

12 Edition

The Liberty Professionals Chronicle

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Liberty Professionals throw away a 2-goal lead

2 in front and in complete control, and it finished with WAFA the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that Liberty Professionals will enjoy reviewing.

Player ratings

Both of them Nana Inusah's — 9.08

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.08, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings

Kehinde Lawal was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 26. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad

Real improvement from Edmund Adjei at Liberty Professionals

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Edmund Adjei is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

A row about effort at Liberty Professionals

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Yakub Hameed was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

Tempers go at Liberty Professionals

Odunsi Sunday 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

Albert Waris is carrying Liberty Professionals

11 goals and a season average of 7.21. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Player ratings

Both jobs done by Ernest Baba — 7.30

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. 9 actions, 7.30, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.

Match

Honours even between Liberty Professionals and WAFA

3‑3, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

In brief

Back issues
9 Edition

The Liberty Professionals Chronicle

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Liberty Professionals 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

Albert Waris 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 Liberty Professionals this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Liberty Professionals get the job done against Heart of Lions

A 3‑1 win over Heart of Lions, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

Words at Liberty Professionals training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yakub Hameed 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

Nana Inusah 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.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Albert Waris at his very best

Marked 8.02. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Liberty Professionals.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Edmund Adjei

“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.

The dugout

Amos Gyan: “That is the standard”

“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 3‑1, already talking about the next one.

Squad

Albert Waris named player of the week

One weekend, judged against everybody else's. Albert Waris has come out on top of it, and for most footballers a weekly award is the only silverware a career ever produces.

In brief