The Liberty Professionals Chronicle
Squad24 Aug 2026
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.
Market24 Aug 2026
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.
Market24 Aug 2026
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.
Market24 Aug 2026
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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
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 targets24 Aug 2026
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.
Market24 Aug 2026
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 dugout24 Aug 2026
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
- Squad Isaac Djiku signs a new deal
- The dugout Isaac Djiku knocks on the manager's door
- The dugout Christian Partey keeps his manager's vote