Marked for Mohammed Sulemana
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
$430.0K. Fees like that buy a footballer and rent a debate: every touch will be measured against the number for a season at least.
Market17 Aug 2026
Medeama say no — this time
The offer from Inter Allies for Kelvin Nkrumah 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.
Squad17 Aug 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 Medeama this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
Medeama spend $430.0K on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $430.0K for Mohammed Sulemana, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Medeama training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fatawu Sulemana 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A season on the outside for Mahmoud Ezzat
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Medeama has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
$430.0K from Medeama for Mohammed Sulemana. Money is money, but the dressing room has lost the man it looked to.
Market17 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
Wa All Stars sell a favourite for $430.0K
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Mohammed Sulemana was one of the reasons people came, and $430.0K does not replace that by itself.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Nana Inusah 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Yaw 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Christian Djiku, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market3 Aug 2026
The bid was some way short and Wa All Stars did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market3 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 Wa All Stars, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market3 Aug 2026
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Wa All Stars heard it as anything else.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Nana Inusah 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 Wa All Stars this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market3 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Ashanti Gold have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Gladson Ayew. The answer from Wa All Stars has not changed — yet.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Wa All Stars training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yaw 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.