Patrick Ayew

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2 Jan 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Patrick Ayew

22 Edition

The Hasaacas Gazette

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Seth Paintsil

84 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Hasaacas lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Player ratings

Ernest Sulemana beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 22. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

Seth Paintsil 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 Hasaacas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

WAFA take the points off Hasaacas

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

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 0‑1 Jeffrey Adjei left the room before anybody could ask which.

Squad

Words at Hasaacas training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abeiku Baba 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.

Looking ahead

Manuel Mantey faces his old club

Medeama next, and one man in the Hasaacas dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

The dugout

Patrick Mensah 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 Patrick Mensah is on it.

Squad

Mohammed Appiah suspended

One booking too many, and Mohammed Appiah sits out. Hasaacas lose him for the sort of avoidable reason that makes a manager's week longer.

In brief

Back issues
16 Edition

The Hasaacas Gazette

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Seth Paintsil

127 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Hasaacas lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

Words exchanged at Hasaacas

Seth Paintsil 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.

Squad

Words at Hasaacas training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abeiku Baba 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.

Market

No place for Patrick Ayew in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Patrick Ayew has his answer from Hasaacas; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

The dugout

Patrick Ayew 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 Patrick Ayew trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Looking ahead

An away day at New Edubiase United next for Hasaacas

They sit in position 15 and they will be waiting. Away form is where a season shows its true character, and this side has a point to make about its own.

In brief

9 Edition

The Hasaacas Gazette

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Hasaacas come up short against Wa All Stars

Wa All Stars left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Tempers go at Hasaacas

Seth Paintsil 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 dugout

Ikenna Nkwazema 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Hasaacas

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

The dugout

Jeffrey Adjei faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Jeffrey Adjei after 1‑3, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Ernest Sulemana

Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

A first senior shirt for Patrick Mensah

Every debut is a small story about the future: Patrick Mensah, 20 years old, off the academy pitches and into the first team. The parents in the stand will keep the programme.

The dugout

The plan did not have a place for Seth Paintsil

Nobody at Hasaacas is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.

Squad

The first one for a squad player

Every signing waits for it and every press conference asks about it until it comes. It has come, Hasaacas have their man off the mark, and the second one is always easier.

In brief

7 Edition

The Hasaacas Gazette

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Market

Patrick Ayew hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Hasaacas can pretend not to have heard.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Manuel Mantey

At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match

Hasaacas see off BA All Stars

Three points for Hasaacas, 1‑0 the final word against BA All Stars in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

Words at Hasaacas training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Seth Paintsil 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.

Player ratings

David Essien takes the honours

Marked 7.74 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Hasaacas had the best player on the pitch.

Squad

Words exchanged at Hasaacas

Mohammed Appiah 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.

The dugout

A satisfied Jeffrey Adjei

“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Jeffrey Adjei could afford to be generous.

Player ratings

Ernest Sulemana runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 12. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Kwame Kyereh, 19, gets his chance

Off the academy pitches and onto a senior team sheet at 19. The debut is the easy part; the second appearance is the one every young player has to earn.

In brief