Marked for Patrick Schlupp
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad17 May 2027
Words exchanged at Hasaacas
Abraham Nuhu 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.
Squad17 May 2027
A row about effort at Hasaacas
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Tshepang Makara was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad17 May 2027
A few words of the language, a friend at the next peg, and a training ground that has stopped feeling foreign. Nothing measurable, and everything visible on Saturdays.
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Triumph
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 33. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad5 Oct 2026
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Abeiku Owusu out for 20 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Hasaacas will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match3 Oct 2026
Hasaacas make it 5 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Hasaacas have 5 straight wins of it.
Market5 Oct 2026
David Mensah 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 Hasaacas can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Marked 9.92 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Hasaacas
Mohammed Boateng 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
It finished 3‑2, and it was Afriyie Inusah’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Hasaacas.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Afriyie Inusah 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.
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Steady
Market31 Aug 2026
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Hasaacas people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Squad31 Aug 2026
55 days out for Abeiku Owusu after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Hasaacas will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market31 Aug 2026
The bid was some way short and Hasaacas did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market31 Aug 2026
“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 Hasaacas, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Hasaacas
Mohammed Boateng and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Hasaacas offered $140.0K; Aduana Stars said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Afriyie Inusah 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.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. WAFA have kept their man, and Hasaacas go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Questions about Afriyie Inusah on the training pitch
The standards have slipped, and in a building where everybody watches everybody it has not gone unremarked. This is how a player loses a place before he loses one.
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Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” MFK Skalica had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Hasaacas and BA All Stars have settled on $75.0K. 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Mohammed Boateng 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Aduana Stars wanted more than $110.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Joseph Kyereh
“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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Albert Essien commits to Hasaacas for another 3 years.
Market17 Aug 2026
Hasaacas have made Andrew Paintsil available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Patrick Schlupp trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Market10 Aug 2026
David Mensah 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 Hasaacas can pretend not to have heard.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Afriyie Inusah and Hasaacas agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Hasaacas
Isaac Paintsil and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Hasaacas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Afriyie Inusah 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.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
Felix Acquah 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.