Andre Asante

Defensive Midfielder - BA All Stars
22 Feb 2027
Monday
Process

Marked for Andre Asante

19 Edition

The BA All Stars Gazette

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

No end in sight to BA All Stars's wait for a win

12 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at BA All Stars has to find a result from somewhere.

The terraces

Anger at BA All Stars spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Market

Jeffrey Paintsil puts it in writing

“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 The request is on a desk at BA All Stars, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match

4 matches without a goal for BA All Stars

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Squad

Words exchanged at BA All Stars

Baba Djiku 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.

Player ratings

Jeffrey Acquah was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 19. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad

A row about effort at BA All Stars

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

Player ratings

Nobody on the pitch touched Andre Asante

7.12, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. BA All Stars had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Kamaldeen Essien was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the BA All Stars dressing room was either.

In brief

Back issues
17 Edition

The BA All Stars Gazette

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

10 matches without a win for BA All Stars

The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around BA All Stars are no longer polite ones.

Match

BA All Stars sink to position 16

1 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Match

BA All Stars leaking at the back

8 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.

Match

BA All Stars come up short against Liberty Professionals

Liberty Professionals left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Baba Djiku in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at BA All Stars this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Loan watch

Andre Annan counts the days

“I watch every BA All Stars game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at IFK Mariehamn runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

The dugout

Kamaldeen Essien: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Andre Asante

“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.

Squad

Majeed Oseni is a square peg at BA All Stars

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

In brief