Marked for Baba Mohammed
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad16 Aug 2027
Newton Adebayo 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.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Joke Efevwerha 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.
Squad16 Aug 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Baba Mohammed, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Market9 Aug 2027
“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.
Market9 Aug 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad9 Aug 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at New Edubiase United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Uneasy
Market28 Jun 2027
“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 The request is on a desk at New Edubiase United, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market28 Jun 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at New Edubiase United is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad28 Jun 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at New Edubiase United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Joke Efevwerha 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 Joke Efevwerha trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad28 Jun 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Baba Mohammed, and the manager let it.
Market28 Jun 2027
New Edubiase United have let the market know Mahmoud Labib can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
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Uneasy
Squad10 May 2027
Mohamed Atwa: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” New Edubiase United have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad10 May 2027
Justice Apaingolo 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.
Market10 May 2027
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at New Edubiase United, another week without a signature from Joke Efevwerha.
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Uneasy
Market25 Jan 2027
“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.
Match23 Jan 2027
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around New Edubiase United are no longer polite ones.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Justice Apaingolo 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 ratings25 Jan 2027
A performance of 8.80 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad25 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Lefa Hlongwane
“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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
6 goals and a season average of 7.27. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad25 Jan 2027
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; New Edubiase United are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Market25 Jan 2027
Baba Mohammed is 19, and New Edubiase United 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.
Match23 Jan 2027
A 1‑1 draw with Ashanti Gold leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Steady
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad25 Jan 2027
A season average of 7.61 with 7 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Tempers go at WAFA
Bernard Schlupp 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 ratings25 Jan 2027
A performance of 9.35 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Market25 Jan 2027
Inter Allies pay $31.0K, 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.
Match23 Jan 2027
Great Olympics made WAFA work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.75, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad25 Jan 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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Crisis
Market18 Jan 2027
The bid was some way short and WAFA did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match16 Jan 2027
The wait goes on for WAFA
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad18 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match16 Jan 2027
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Andre Boakye gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market18 Jan 2027
A conversation is coming this week. WAFA will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Market18 Jan 2027
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at WAFA has been clear about where Kamaldeen Mensah stands, which is more than many ever get.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Getting past Edmund Partey has become the hardest job in the division
5 clean sheets and counting. Forwards used to back themselves here; now they shoot early, shoot wide, and look for somebody to blame.
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Crisis
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Tempers go at WAFA
Christian Boateng 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
0‑2 to Aduana Stars, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Edmund Partey lets one through his hands
A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.
Squad28 Sep 2026
At 16 years old, Baba Atiemo became the latest name off the academy production line to be handed a senior shirt.
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Uneasy
Squad14 Sep 2026
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.
Market14 Sep 2026
So close: Baba Mohammed’s move dies late
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. New Edubiase United moved on, Baba Mohammed reports back to WAFA, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Marked 8.68 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad14 Sep 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 WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match12 Sep 2026
Honours even between WAFA and Medeama
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Albert Nuhu finally opens his account
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. WAFA have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Jeffrey Baba gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
5.80 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.
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Steady
Market31 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.
Squad31 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 WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Albert Boakye and WAFA agree another 3 years.