Andre Essien

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Marked for Andre Essien

180 Edition

The Liberty Professionals Chronicle

7 Jan 2030
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match5 Jan 2030

At last: Liberty Professionals win one

15 matches without a win, and then this, against Inter Allies. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.

Match7 Jan 2030

Every point is an argument now for Liberty Professionals

Position 14 and 8 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Boardroom7 Jan 2030

The scrutiny sharpens at Liberty Professionals

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Liberty Professionals is running low.

Market7 Jan 2030

Richard Dwamena puts it in writing

“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 The request is on a desk at Liberty Professionals, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets7 Jan 2030

Daniel Afful due for a Liberty Professionals medical

Everything agreed with Medeama, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Market7 Jan 2030

Osman Appiah attracts admirers

The name of Osman Appiah has come up in conversations Liberty Professionals were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad7 Jan 2030

Words exchanged at Liberty Professionals

Solomon Nsoh 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.

Transfer targets7 Jan 2030

Liberty Professionals rebuffed over Sheriff Alabani

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Heart of Lions have kept their man, and Liberty Professionals go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Match5 Jan 2030

Thomas Boakye the difference as Liberty Professionals beat Inter Allies

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Thomas Boakye. 1‑0 against Inter Allies, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

In brief

Back issues
133 Edition

The Liberty Professionals Chronicle

12 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market12 Feb 2029

So close: Bernard Sulemana’s move dies late

The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Inter Allies moved on, Bernard Sulemana reports back to Liberty Professionals, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.

Match10 Feb 2029

The wait goes on for Liberty Professionals

5 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.

Match10 Feb 2029

A bad afternoon for Liberty Professionals against Hearts of Oak

1‑3 to Hearts of Oak, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Transfer targets12 Feb 2029

Door shut on Kelvin Obeng

Liberty Professionals asked and Hearts of Oak said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad12 Feb 2029

Tempers go at Liberty Professionals

Gladson Annan 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 dugout12 Feb 2029

Samuel Owusu Ansah 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.

Transfer targets12 Feb 2029

The window shuts on the Amadu Abdulai deal

Liberty Professionals ran out of time with Bechem United. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.

The dugout12 Feb 2029

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 1‑3 Osman Asante left the room before anybody could ask which.

Squad12 Feb 2029

Andre Essien finally opens his account

He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Liberty Professionals have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.

In brief

124 Edition

The Liberty Professionals Chronicle

11 Dec 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match9 Dec 2028

No end in sight to Liberty Professionals's wait for a win

7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Liberty Professionals has to find a result from somewhere.

Match9 Dec 2028

6 matches without a goal for Liberty Professionals

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 6 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Market11 Dec 2028

Jonathan Adjei puts it in writing

“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 Liberty Professionals, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad11 Dec 2028

A falling-out at Liberty Professionals

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

Squad11 Dec 2028

Bernard Sulemana 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.

Squad11 Dec 2028

Jonathan Adjei signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jonathan Adjei commits to Liberty Professionals for another 3 years.

The dugout11 Dec 2028

A promise honoured for Francis Acquah

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Liberty Professionals told Francis Acquah something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

Player ratings11 Dec 2028

Nobody on the pitch touched Andre Essien

7.53, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Liberty Professionals had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

The dugout11 Dec 2028

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.” Osman Asante chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.

In brief