Marked for Jonathan Wakaso
From our football correspondent
Steady
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
A brace, and Jonathan Wakaso takes the afternoon — 8.79
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Jonathan Wakaso provided it, and the 8.79 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Carlos Ohene 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.
Loan watch7 Dec 2026
“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 Liberty Professionals, and 0 appearances in 16 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Steven Nufour 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 terraces7 Dec 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Jonathan Mensah has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match5 Dec 2026
A 2‑0 win over Wa All Stars, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Yaw Sulemana named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Yaw Sulemana is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 2‑0, already talking about the next one.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Back issues
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Crisis
Squad23 Nov 2026
7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Match21 Nov 2026
The first defeat in 9 matches. The manager will say it had to come; the dressing room will say it did not have to come against BA All Stars; the supporters will say both, in that order, all week.
Match21 Nov 2026
1‑3 to BA All Stars, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Steven Nufour and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Divine Chidera, and the manager let it.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words at Liberty Professionals training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Samuel Schlupp 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 ahead23 Nov 2026
The team at the top of the table next, and the honest measure of where this side actually is. Anybody can beat the club below them; the question is what happens against Aduana Stars.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Deruo Wisdom beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 12. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
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Uneasy
Match7 Nov 2026
9 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Carlos Ohene 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Deruo Wisdom 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 Liberty Professionals this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad9 Nov 2026
7 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Thomas Boakye chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Joseph Bukari is 18, and for one weekend he was the best of everybody his age in the division. Nobody should build a career on it and everybody quietly does.
Match7 Nov 2026
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Medeama? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
The dugout9 Nov 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.
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Uneasy
Squad26 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Isaac Boateng out for 20 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Liberty Professionals will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match24 Oct 2026
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Liberty Professionals are no longer polite ones.
Match24 Oct 2026
The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Liberty Professionals training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Carlos Ohene 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Deruo Wisdom 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 dugout26 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Divine Chidera, and the manager let it.
Squad26 Oct 2026
26 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Match24 Oct 2026
The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Hearts of Oak scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.
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Upbeat
Squad21 Sep 2026
Isaac Boateng breaks a bone — 61 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 61 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
No sign of nerves from Joseph Bukari at 18 — 8.15
The hardest thing about being 18 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Joseph Bukari did not need any: 8.15, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Deruo Wisdom 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 terraces21 Sep 2026
At 21 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Joseph Bukari. 2‑0 against New Edubiase United, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Jonathan Wakaso was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.35. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Thomas Boakye kept it short after the 2‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Abdul Baba 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
At 17 years old, Emmanuel Adjei became the latest name off the academy production line to be handed a senior shirt.
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Steady
Squad24 Aug 2026
Isaac Boateng breaks a bone — 91 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 91 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market24 Aug 2026
Yaw Sulemana 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 Liberty Professionals can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Real Bamako is saying, and nobody at Liberty Professionals is enjoying the guessing.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Kamaldeen Owusu was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad24 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 Liberty Professionals this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Jonathan Wakaso
“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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Signings arrive with a picture of the club in their head, and this one’s picture was bigger than the building. He will play well and he will be gone, in that order, and everybody knows it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Liberty Professionals will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.