Yaw Baba

Goalkeeper - Wa All Stars
25 Dec 2026
Friday
Process

Marked for Yaw Baba

7 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

No mercy from Wa All Stars

Heart of Lions will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Wa All Stars were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

Player ratings

Osman Boakye scores twice — 8.21

Two goals and a mark of 8.21 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad

Abeiku Acquah 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.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Nana Baba

At 20 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.

Match

Osman Boakye at the heart of a fast Wa All Stars start

2 goals inside twenty minutes with Osman Boakye in the middle of it, and Heart of Lions unable to get near the ball long enough to change anything. Some matches are won before the first drink.

Player ratings

Amos Adjei in the eights

A performance of 8.31 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Diego Lima

Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Amos Adjei is off the mark for Wa All Stars

The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.

Squad

Achraf Hermach left out for tactical reasons at Wa All Stars

The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.

In brief

Back issues
4 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Yaw Baba 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 Wa All Stars can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Wa All Stars turn down Naxxar Lions for Nana Baba

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Osman Boakye 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 Wa All Stars this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Isaac Kyereh attracts admirers

The name of Isaac Kyereh has come up in conversations Wa All Stars were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad

No hiding place for Abeiku Sulemana

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

Squad

This league is too small for Messie Biatoumoussoka

He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Wa All Stars will not keep him by pretending otherwise.

In brief

1 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Wa All Stars say no — this time

The offer from Brentford for Abeiku Acquah 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.

Squad

Osman Boakye 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 Wa All Stars this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Wa All Stars training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abeiku Acquah 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.

Squad

David Paintsil signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” David Paintsil commits to Wa All Stars for another 1 years.

Squad

Osman 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.

Market

No place for Yaw Baba in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Yaw Baba has his answer from Wa All Stars; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

In brief