Marked for Abdul Sulemana
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Uneasy
Match24 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Hasaacas
9 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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
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.
Squad26 Oct 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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 20 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Soufiane Aznabet, and the manager let it.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Hasaacas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Samuel Inusah 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 ratings26 Oct 2026
7.51, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Hasaacas had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at Hasaacas
6 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Defensive actions: 15. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
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Crisis
Match7 Oct 2026
The cup run ends for Hasaacas
0‑1 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.
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.
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.
Squad12 Oct 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Abdul Sulemana 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.
Match10 Oct 2026
0‑1 to Asante Kotoko, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
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Uneasy
Market14 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad14 Sep 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Abdul Sulemana 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Hasaacas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Samuel Inusah 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 ratings14 Sep 2026
Isaac Partey did the work nobody counts — 6.43
10 combined actions and 6.43. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.57 on the card, and the Hasaacas support went home talking about one name.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Too much change too quickly at Hasaacas
6 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.