Marked for Baba Asante
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad15 Nov 2027
Ibrahim Hassan: 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.” Wa All Stars have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match13 Nov 2027
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.
Squad15 Nov 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 Wa All Stars this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match13 Nov 2027
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Wa All Stars and Liberty Professionals, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Match13 Nov 2027
Liberty Professionals left with the points after a 2‑4 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad15 Nov 2027
Words at Wa All Stars training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Isaac Inusah 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.
Squad15 Nov 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Kwadwo Annan, and the manager let it.
Loan watch15 Nov 2027
“I did not go to Inter Allies to sit and watch. I want to come back to Wa All Stars and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 18 matches say the rest.
Player ratings15 Nov 2027
Successful dribbles: 7. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Uneasy
Squad18 Oct 2027
Albert Amoah 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.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Words at Wa All Stars training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Isaac Inusah 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.
The terraces18 Oct 2027
At 23 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.
Match16 Oct 2027
It finished 1‑0, and it was Christian Kyereh’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Wa All Stars.
Squad18 Oct 2027
The manager makes an example of Salim Adams
“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.
Squad18 Oct 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; Wa All Stars are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
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Crisis
Squad20 Sep 2027
Kamaldeen Atiemo is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad20 Sep 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 Wa All Stars this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Edmund Atiemo has improved at 28, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Words at Wa All Stars training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Isaac Inusah 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.
Match18 Sep 2027
1‑2 to Hasaacas, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings20 Sep 2027
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Loan watch20 Sep 2027
“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 0 appearances in 10 say he has earned the hearing.
Market20 Sep 2027
Faustin Ambassa 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.
Player ratings20 Sep 2027
Andre Waris changes it off the bench
He was not in the side at half past three and he had settled it before five. Half an hour, and Wa All Stars had a different afternoon.
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Crisis
Squad23 Aug 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Kamaldeen Atiemo is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Albert Amoah 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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Edmund Atiemo has improved at 28, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Squad23 Aug 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Salim Adams and Wa All Stars agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Loan watch23 Aug 2027
“I did not go to Inter Allies to sit and watch. I want to come back to Wa All Stars and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 6 matches say the rest.
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Uneasy
Squad12 Jul 2027
Tiaguinho keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Inter Allies may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Joseph Nathaniel 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.
Market12 Jul 2027
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
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Crisis
Market12 Jul 2027
The offer from Paradou for Albert Amoah was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market12 Jul 2027
Kwame Nuhu has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Wa All Stars they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad12 Jul 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 Wa All Stars this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Words at Wa All Stars training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Isaac Inusah 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.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Iker Banda 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.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Kwadwo Boakye knocks on the manager's door
“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.