The Liberty Professionals Chronicle
Squad7 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Kamaldeen Asante
117 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Liberty Professionals lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Amos Afful
Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market7 Sep 2026
Joseph Kyereh asks to leave Liberty Professionals
“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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Real improvement from Samuel Afful at Liberty Professionals
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Samuel Afful is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Graduation day at Liberty Professionals
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.
Match5 Sep 2026
Samuel Afful sends Liberty Professionals past Inter Allies
It finished 2‑1, and it was Samuel Afful’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Liberty Professionals.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Liberty Professionals
Abdul Mumini Salifu 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.
The terraces7 Sep 2026
The crowd has taken to Samuel Afful
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Market7 Sep 2026
One of our own: Abdul Nuhu joins the Liberty Professionals first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Abdul Nuhu is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Liberty Professionals promote Kwadwo Kyereh from within
- Market Jeffrey Paintsil steps up from the Liberty Professionals academy
- Squad Jeffrey Nuhu falls out with a teammate over standards