Marked for Samuel Kudus
From our football correspondent
Crisis
The terraces4 Jan 2027
The mood at Hasaacas has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Gonzalo Pérez breaks a bone — 46 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 46 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Boardroom4 Jan 2027
Daniel Gyan has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Hasaacas can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Boardroom4 Jan 2027
The scrutiny sharpens at Hasaacas
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Hasaacas is running low.
Match2 Jan 2027
No end in sight to Hasaacas's wait for a win
7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Hasaacas has to find a result from somewhere.
Market4 Jan 2027
“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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Mehdi Khallati 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.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Crisis
Squad21 Dec 2026
Gonzalo Pérez breaks a bone — 62 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 62 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match19 Dec 2026
5 matches without a win for Hasaacas
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Hasaacas are no longer polite ones.
Squad21 Dec 2026
“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.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad21 Dec 2026
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 Dec 2026
Soufiane Aznabet 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.
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Uneasy
Squad14 Dec 2026
A fracture rules Gonzalo Pérez out for 70 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Hasaacas will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match12 Dec 2026
The wait goes on for Hasaacas
4 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
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.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad14 Dec 2026
“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.
Match12 Dec 2026
It needed Samuel Kudus to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Medeama, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
In brief
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Squad
A Hasaacas teenager takes the young player award
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Player ratings
Off the bench and decisive: Samuel Kudus
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Uneasy
Squad16 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Gonzalo Pérez out for 100 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Hasaacas will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Afriyie Nuhu has a hand in both — 7.99
One scored and one made, which is a different afternoon from scoring twice and an easier one to overlook. Marked 7.99, and involved in 2 of his side's goals.
Squad16 Nov 2026
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.
Match14 Nov 2026
It finished 2‑0, and it was Afriyie Nuhu’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Hasaacas.
Match14 Nov 2026
2 goals inside twenty minutes with Afriyie Nuhu in the middle of it, and Heart of Lions unable to get near the ball long enough to change anything. Some matches are won before the first drink.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Samuel Kudus, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Market7 Sep 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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.61 for the rest of it.
Market7 Sep 2026
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Ernest Ofori reports back to Hasaacas with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Gonzalo Pérez 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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Graduation day at Hasaacas
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Market7 Sep 2026
Add another name to the list: New Edubiase United have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Samuel Kudus. The answer from Hasaacas has not changed — yet.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Mehdi Khallati 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Albert Acquah is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“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.
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Steady
Market31 Aug 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Hasaacas say no — this time
The offer from Inter Allies for Samuel Kudus 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
Mehdi Khallati 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
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Nana Appiah commits to Hasaacas for another 3 years.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Hasaacas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abdul Ayew 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.