Attacking Midfielder (C) - BA All Stars
26 Nov 2026
Thursday
Process

Marked for

17 Edition

The BA All Stars Gazette

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The wait goes on for BA All Stars

6 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.

The dugout

Abeiku Afful keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” BA All Stars may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

A falling-out at BA All Stars

Muhammed Alao and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Christian Djiku falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Match

A bad afternoon for BA All Stars against Liberty Professionals

1‑2 to Liberty Professionals, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout

No hiding place for Muhammed Alao

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Muhammed Alao, and the manager let it.

The dugout

Osman Kudus answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

The dugout

a squad player 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 a squad player is on it.

Looking ahead

Bernard Somuah goes back to face Asante Kotoko

Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Bernard Somuah’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and BA All Stars needing him to play as if none of it matters.

In brief

Back issues
13 Edition

The BA All Stars Gazette

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A falling-out at BA All Stars

Muhammed Alao and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

A row about effort at BA All Stars

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

Match

BA All Stars share the spoils with Aduana Stars

A 1‑1 draw with Aduana Stars leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

The dugout

Half-satisfied: Osman Kudus on the draw

“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 1‑1, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.

The dugout

Abdul Schlupp 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.

The dugout

Somebody else is better right now than Felix Annan

The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.

The dugout

a squad player 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 a squad player is on it.

Squad

The shirt belongs to Muhammed Alao now

At 30 he has made the position his own, and the man he took it from has to find something to say about it. BA All Stars have a decision that made itself.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Muhammed Alao

Successful dribbles: 9. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

12 Edition

The BA All Stars Gazette

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

The cup run ends for BA All Stars

0‑0 against Asante Kotoko, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Squad

Thomas Sulemana decides it from twelve yards

1 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.

The dugout

Andre Bukari keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” BA All Stars may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

The step up is real for Andre Amoah

At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad

A falling-out at BA All Stars

Daniel Mohammed and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

A bad afternoon for BA All Stars against Ashanti Gold

0‑1 to Ashanti Gold, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout

No hiding place for Sa'ad Tijjani

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sa'ad Tijjani, and the manager let it.

Player ratings

The kick that got away from Abeiku Mensah

Twelve yards, a goalkeeper guessing, and it still did not go in. He will take the next one, and every soul in the ground will hold their breath.

Squad

Andre Amoah stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Andre Amoah and BA All Stars agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

In brief