Daniel Acquah

Left Wingback - BA All Stars
13 Nov 2026
Friday
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Marked for Daniel Acquah

12 Edition

The BA All Stars Gazette

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Harrison Adjei out for 50 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.

Player ratings

A brace, and Edmund Mohammed takes the afternoon — 8.08

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Edmund Mohammed provided it, and the 8.08 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad

Joseph Asante 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

Tempers go at BA All Stars

Nana Paintsil 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

BA All Stars find a way past Wa All Stars

Wa All Stars made BA All Stars work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑2 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Isaac Addo

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

No hiding place for Tholithemba Nyawose

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

Player ratings

A masterclass from Nana Paintsil

Marked 8.13 — 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.

Loan watch

Kwadwo Afful counts the days

“I watch every BA All Stars game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Inter Allies runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

In brief

Back issues
7 Edition

The BA All Stars Gazette

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Edmund Mohammed

Successful dribbles: 44. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Harrison Adjei breaks a bone — 86 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 86 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Samuel Ayew is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 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

Joseph Asamoah 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 BA All Stars this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Nana Paintsil 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

Hearts of Oak take the points off BA All Stars

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

In brief

6 Edition

The BA All Stars Gazette

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

A fracture rules Harrison Adjei out for 94 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.

Player ratings

Both of them Nana Paintsil's — 8.89

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.89, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Market

Daniel Acquah asks to leave BA 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 BA All Stars

Nana Paintsil 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.

Boardroom

4 academy players handed senior numbers at BA 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.

Match

Nana Paintsil the difference as BA All Stars beat Hasaacas

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Nana Paintsil. 2‑1 against Hasaacas, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Market

Kwame Bukari steps up from the BA All Stars academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Kwame Bukari 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

Ernest Wakaso steps up from the BA All Stars academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ernest Wakaso 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: Baba Djiku joins the BA All Stars first team

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

In brief

1 Edition

The BA All Stars Gazette

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Jonathan Boateng 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 BA All Stars, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Kwame Amoah 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 BA All Stars this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Eyes on Kwadwo Afful again

The phone has started ringing about Kwadwo Afful again, and this time the name on the line is Inter Allies. BA All Stars are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad

Words at BA All Stars training over how hard people work

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

Squad

Jonathan Boateng signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Jonathan Boateng and BA All Stars agree another 2 years.

Squad

Nana Paintsil knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Nana Paintsil trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief