John Ihenacho

Central Defender - Wa All Stars
31 Jan 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for John Ihenacho

25 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

105 days out for Andrew Appiah after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Wa All Stars will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Squad

The knee: Emmanuel Baba out for 21 days

21 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Wa All Stars lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market

Cotonsport Garoua come back empty-handed

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.

Match

5 matches without a win for Wa All Stars

The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Wa All Stars are no longer polite ones.

Market

Business is business: Gladson Essien goes

Inter Allies paid $150.0K and Wa All Stars took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Squad

Tempers go at Wa All Stars

Jeffrey Asamoah 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.

Player ratings

Bernard Sulemana stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.93 on the card, and the Wa All Stars support went home talking about one name.

Squad

John Ihenacho stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” John Ihenacho and Wa All Stars agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Match

Wa All Stars and WAFA take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

In brief

Back issues
22 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Andrew Appiah breaks a bone — 126 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 126 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

Nowhere to hide for Wa All Stars

0‑3 against Heart of Lions, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Match

Wa All Stars are in real trouble now

Position 15, 7 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Squad

Words exchanged at Wa All Stars

a squad player and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Looking ahead

A six-pointer for Wa All Stars

Hasaacas next, and both sides can do the sum. Win and the table looks different; lose and it looks the way everybody has been fearing.

Boardroom

Nobody left the Wa All Stars dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑3 Ernest Nuhu left the room before anybody could ask which.

Squad

Kamaldeen 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.

The dugout

Somebody else is better right now than Yaw Boateng

The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.

In brief