Abdul Baba

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Marked for Abdul Baba

52 Edition

The Liberty Professionals Chronicle

26 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad26 Jul 2027

The knee: Abdul Schlupp out for 57 days

57 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.

Market26 Jul 2027

Harrison Wakaso is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Liberty Professionals is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad26 Jul 2027

A falling-out at Liberty Professionals

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

Squad26 Jul 2027

Words at Liberty Professionals training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Souleymane Tamboura 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.

The dugout26 Jul 2027

The manager makes an example of Modibo Coulibaly

“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.

The dugout26 Jul 2027

When it matters, Ernest Ofori plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Match26 Jul 2027

Liberty Professionals have something to play for

Position 5 on 58 points, and the places that carry a European ticket are close enough to count. Seasons like this are decided by two results in April, and the club knows which two.

The dugout26 Jul 2027

Harrison Wakaso asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Squad26 Jul 2027

The transfer that hurt Abdul Baba most

Somebody else's move, somebody else's headline. What it left at Liberty Professionals is an empty peg and a footballer who keeps glancing at it.

In brief

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47 Edition

The Liberty Professionals Chronicle

21 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad21 Jun 2027

Abdul Schlupp damages knee ligaments — 95 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 95 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.

Market21 Jun 2027

Harrison Wakaso agrees terms with Medeama

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Liberty Professionals people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Transfer targets21 Jun 2027

No thanks: Michael Ephson rejects the move

Liberty Professionals had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Heart of Lions, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Transfer targets21 Jun 2027

Liberty Professionals rebuffed over Vladislav Kravtsov

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

Squad21 Jun 2027

A row about effort at Liberty Professionals

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mustafa Yahaya was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad21 Jun 2027

Tempers go at Liberty Professionals

Ernest Ofori 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.

The dugout21 Jun 2027

Mustafa Yahaya knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Mustafa Yahaya trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout21 Jun 2027

Afriyie Boakye gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Afriyie Boakye is on it.

Squad21 Jun 2027

Questions about Mohammed Asamoah on the training pitch

The standards have slipped, and in a building where everybody watches everybody it has not gone unremarked. This is how a player loses a place before he loses one.

In brief