Marked for Thomas Schlupp
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
A debut Jonathan Amoah will not forget — 8.12
There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 2 on the scoresheet, 8.12 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
A brace, and Albert Ayew takes the afternoon — 8.42
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Albert Ayew provided it, and the 8.42 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market7 Sep 2026
Hasaacas say no — this time
The offer from Great Olympics for Abdul Acquah 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
“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.
Match5 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Albert Ayew. 5‑3 against BA All Stars, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Thomas Schlupp 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
8 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Hasaacas and BA All Stars in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Graduation day at Hasaacas
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.
The terraces7 Sep 2026
At 19 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.
Back issues
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Steady
Market31 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad31 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 Hasaacas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Aug 2026
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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Steady
Market24 Aug 2026
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.
Market24 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 Hasaacas, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Thomas Schlupp 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.
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Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
39 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
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 Hasaacas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Edmund Paintsil and Hasaacas agree another 3 years.
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Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
Kwadwo Kyereh 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 Hasaacas can pretend not to have heard.
Market10 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Kamaldeen Boateng and Hasaacas agree another 3 years.
Squad10 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 Hasaacas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Nana Amoah
“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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Hasaacas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Joseph Kudus 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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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
Thomas Schlupp 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Great Olympics have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Abdul Acquah. The answer from Hasaacas has not changed — yet.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Joseph Kudus 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.