Bernard Baba

Central Midfielder - Liberty Professionals
21 Sep 2026
Monday
Process

Marked for Bernard Baba

4 Edition

The Liberty Professionals Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Daniel Ofori damages knee ligaments — 133 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 133 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.

Market

Liberty Professionals say no — this time

The offer from Victoria United for Abraham Appiah 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.

Market

Bernard Baba hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Liberty Professionals can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Andrew Kudus attracts admirers

The name of Andrew Kudus has come up in conversations Liberty Professionals were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad

Tempers go at Liberty Professionals

Eric Oteng 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.

Squad

Afriyie Essien 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.

Transfer targets

Liberty Professionals rebuffed over Miracle Ukadike

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Warri Wolves have kept their man, and Liberty Professionals go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market

Hasaacas are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Liberty Professionals will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Abdul Annan

“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.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Liberty Professionals Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Daniel Ofori out for 140 days

140 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Liberty Professionals lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market

Liberty Professionals turn down Renaissance for Abraham Boakye

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market

Abraham Appiah attracts admirers

The name of Abraham Appiah has come up in conversations Liberty Professionals were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Market

Liberty Professionals sell Emmanuel Sulemana for $880.0K

Emmanuel Sulemana has left for Hearts of Oak in a $880.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Squad

Tempers go at Liberty Professionals

Afriyie Essien 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.

Squad

Christian Partey 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.

Transfer targets

Bendel Insurance tell Liberty Professionals: Anthony Cletus is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

The dugout

Samuel Acquah gets it from the manager

“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.

Transfer targets

Liberty Professionals try to borrow Daouda Koné

Real Bamako have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

In brief

1 Edition

The Liberty Professionals Chronicle

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A move Eric Oteng 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. Eric Oteng is living that version at Liberty Professionals, and it tends to show in the first month.

Market

Cotonsport Garoua come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Liberty Professionals did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Daniel Ofori hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Liberty Professionals can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

A falling-out at Liberty Professionals

Eric Oteng and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Afriyie Essien 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.

Transfer targets

Shooting Stars tell Liberty Professionals: Abdullahi Lawal is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Market

Eyes on Daniel Asamoah again

The phone has started ringing about Daniel Asamoah again, and this time the name on the line is Great Olympics. Liberty Professionals are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad

Mustafa Yahaya is a square peg at Liberty Professionals

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

Transfer targets

Liberty Professionals ask about Abubakar Adams

A loan enquiry to Aduana Stars: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

In brief