Marked for Jonathan Waris
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Uneasy
Squad8 Nov 2027
Francis Inusah damages knee ligaments — 93 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 93 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad8 Nov 2027
A fracture rules Thomas Schlupp out for 77 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.
Squad8 Nov 2027
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Player ratings8 Nov 2027
Osman Sulemana, 34, rolls back the years — 8.08
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.08 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Market8 Nov 2027
Jonathan Waris has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Hasaacas they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Barou Sanogo 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.
Back issues
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Crisis
Squad1 Nov 2027
A fracture rules Thomas Schlupp out for 84 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 ratings1 Nov 2027
Successful dribbles: 33. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match1 Nov 2027
Every point is an argument now for Hasaacas
Position 15 and 6 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Squad1 Nov 2027
Barou Sanogo 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.
Match30 Oct 2027
New Edubiase United left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad1 Nov 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Abdul Acquah, and the manager let it.
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Crisis
Match9 Oct 2027
No end in sight to Hasaacas's wait for a win
13 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Hasaacas has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad11 Oct 2027
A fracture rules Thomas Schlupp out for 105 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.
Match6 Oct 2027
Berekum Chelsea ended it 0‑2. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Player ratings11 Oct 2027
Successful dribbles: 32. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad11 Oct 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Hasaacas may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market11 Oct 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Hasaacas is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
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Crisis
Squad4 Oct 2027
A fracture rules Thomas Schlupp out for 112 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.
Match2 Oct 2027
11 matches without a win for Hasaacas
The run now stands at 11, and the questions being asked around Hasaacas are no longer polite ones.
Squad4 Oct 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Barou Sanogo and Hasaacas agree another 2 years.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Barou Sanogo 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.
Squad4 Oct 2027
“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.
Player ratings4 Oct 2027
Ninety minutes of Abraham Amoah at his very best
Marked 8.14. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Hasaacas.
Market4 Oct 2027
Jonathan Waris is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Hasaacas has been clear about where Jonathan Waris stands, which is more than many ever get.
Player ratings4 Oct 2027
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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Crisis
Squad13 Sep 2027
A fracture rules Thomas Schlupp out for 133 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.
Match11 Sep 2027
The wait goes on for Hasaacas
8 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.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Abdul Acquah: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Hasaacas have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market13 Sep 2027
Jonathan Waris has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Hasaacas they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Barou Sanogo 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.
Squad13 Sep 2027
At 24 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 4 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Match11 Sep 2027
Aduana Stars left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Crisis
Market16 Aug 2027
The bid was some way short and Hasaacas did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market16 Aug 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Hasaacas is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad16 Aug 2027
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Hasaacas are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Barou Sanogo 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.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Mário Junior has improved at 24, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Boardroom16 Aug 2027
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
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Crisis
Squad9 Aug 2027
A move Emmanuel Kotei would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Emmanuel Kotei is living that version at Hasaacas, and it tends to show in the first month.
Boardroom9 Aug 2027
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Barou Sanogo 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.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Nana Wakaso is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Market9 Aug 2027
Bechem United pay $54.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Albert Ayew 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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Crisis
Boardroom2 Aug 2027
The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Kwame Gyan has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.
Boardroom2 Aug 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.
Market2 Aug 2027
Hasaacas say no — this time
The offer from Bechem United for Jonathan 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.
Market2 Aug 2027
Only the photograph left for Amos Ofori
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Amos Ofori will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Hasaacas the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Barou Sanogo 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.
Market2 Aug 2027
Business is business: Jeffrey Annan goes
Bechem United paid $84.0K and Hasaacas took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Words at Hasaacas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Albert 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.
Squad2 Aug 2027
The manager's exit leaves Barou Sanogo exposed
Every squad has men who were signed by a particular manager and men who were merely inherited. Barou Sanogo is in the first group, and the man who wanted him here is no longer in the building.
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Uneasy
Squad26 Jul 2027
Barou Sanogo 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.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Jonathan Waris 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.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Kwame Partey asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Market26 Jul 2027
The name of Andre Wakaso keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Hasaacas say nothing, which says plenty.
Market26 Jul 2027
The clock does Andrew Bukari’s negotiating for him
1 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Hasaacas could ask drops and the wages Andrew Bukari can ask rise.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Boardroom5 Jul 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.
Market5 Jul 2027
Add another name to the list: Mattersburg have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Kwame Partey. The answer from Hasaacas has not changed — yet.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Barou Sanogo 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.
Boardroom5 Jul 2027
Intake day at the Hasaacas academy
5 arrivals, an average age nobody would call a squad, and a set of parents being shown around a building their sons will spend more time in than at home. The scouting has already happened; today is only the paperwork.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Mário Junior asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Words at Hasaacas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jonathan Waris 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.
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Squad
Nana Adjei gets it from the manager
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Boardroom
Hasaacas pull $162.0K back off the table
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Uneasy
Market19 Apr 2027
Andrew Bukari has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Hasaacas they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Amos Ofori: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Hasaacas have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Barou Sanogo 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 43. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Francis Inusah damages knee ligaments — 95 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 95 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Two goals and a mark of 8.30 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad11 Jan 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Hasaacas may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Mustafa Yahaya 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Barou Sanogo 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.
Match9 Jan 2027
It finished 2‑0, and it was Osman Sulemana’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Hasaacas.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
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.
Market11 Jan 2027
Andrew Bukari’s agent stirs the pot again
“Ambitious players need ambitious projects. Draw your own conclusions.” Andrew Bukari’s representative said it with a smile, and made sure everyone wrote it down.