Ashanti Gold and Asante Kotoko have settled on $510.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.
“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 The request is on a desk at Ashanti Gold, and it is not being withdrawn.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Elvis Manu was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Djoliba have kept their man, and Ashanti Gold go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Mamudo Moro 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.
He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and Ashanti Gold know which stage they are at.
Every supporter in the ground could have named the hole in this team, and most of them did, loudly, for months. Duke Osimaga has been signed to close it.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Abdul Atiemo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Liberty Professionals, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Eric Oteng 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Ashanti Gold training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Elvis Manu 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.
Ashanti Gold asked and Ikorodu City said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Ashanti Gold are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
In brief
Transfer targetsAshanti Gold ask about a squad player
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Liberty Professionals can pretend not to have heard.
The name of a squad player has come up in conversations Liberty Professionals were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Abdul Atiemo 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.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Liberty Professionals this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Mohammed Boakye and Liberty Professionals agree another 3 years.
Amos Waris 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.
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Abdul Acquah and Liberty Professionals agree another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Abdul Atiemo 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.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Liberty Professionals, and both men came out saying it was fine.