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.
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Wa All Stars have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Asked to play a role that is not his, or taken off before the hour once too often — Nana Owusu has let it be known that he does not like the way Wa All Stars are using him. Managers hear this long before the press does.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Wa All Stars know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Wa All Stars, and both men came out saying it was fine.
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Wa All Stars have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Wa All Stars know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Wa All Stars spent the window trying to move Abdul Partey on and nobody came. He trains with a squad that has already told him he is not part of it, and both sides now wait for the next one.
In brief
The terracesThe press have found their man in Kwadwo Ofori
$95.0K is a serious amount of money and it does not play centre-forward. Everybody in the dressing room knows who used to be looked at when it went wrong.
The fee is $39.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Heart of Lions drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Wa All Stars know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Wa All Stars can pretend not to have heard.
A season average of 7.00 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Wa All Stars know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Wa All Stars can pretend not to have heard.
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Abeiku Annan reports back to Wa All Stars with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Liberty Professionals pay $52.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Praise Chimechetam is 20, and Wa All Stars have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
“The easiest signature of my career.” Praise Chimechetam and Wa All Stars agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Wa All Stars can pretend not to have heard.
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Wa All Stars have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Wa All Stars can pretend not to have heard.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Wa All Stars can pretend not to have heard.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Wa All Stars can pretend not to have heard.
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Wa All Stars, and 1 appearances in 11 say he has earned the hearing.
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Baba Schlupp: 2 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Wa All Stars can pretend not to have heard.
Every debut is a small story about the future: Kamaldeen Acquah, 16 years old, off the academy pitches and into the first team. The parents in the stand will keep the programme.
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Wa All Stars, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Asked to play a role that is not his, or taken off before the hour once too often — Samuel Sulemana has let it be known that he does not like the way Wa All Stars are using him. Managers hear this long before the press does.
The deal that would have taken Abeiku Annan to Berekum Chelsea has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Wa All Stars with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Wa All Stars can pretend not to have heard.
The deal that would have taken Jeffrey Annan to Great Olympics has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Wa All Stars with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
A 1-0 win over Berekum Chelsea, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Francis Addo is 16, and Wa All Stars have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
The name of Joseph Afful has come up in conversations Wa All Stars were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
The name of Andrew Boateng has come up in conversations Wa All Stars were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.