Marked for Harrison Asante
From our football correspondent
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Player ratings19 Oct 2026
No sign of nerves from Kamaldeen Appiah at 20 — 7.63
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Kamaldeen Appiah did not need any: 7.63, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Market19 Oct 2026
Thomas Addo has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Wa All Stars they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Berna 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Daniel Nuhu is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Cleitinho 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Kwame Nuhu has improved at 27, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Back issues
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Player ratings21 Sep 2026
At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.97 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Market21 Sep 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Wa All Stars is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Boardroom21 Sep 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Thomas Addo has agreed terms with Great Olympics for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Berna 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Harrison Asante is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Match19 Sep 2026
A 3‑2 win over Hasaacas, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Cleitinho 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.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Naledi Hlongwane has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad21 Sep 2026
No hiding place for Cleitinho
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Cleitinho, and the manager let it.
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Market10 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.
Market10 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Edmund Owusu and Wa All Stars agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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 Wa All Stars this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Edmund Owusu 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.