Thomas Waris

Central Defender - Wa All Stars
3 Oct 2026
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Marked for Thomas Waris

9 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Thomas Waris damages knee ligaments — 77 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 77 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Albert Essien

Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

Mohammed Nuhu, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.75

A mark of 7.75 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Match

No end in sight to Wa All Stars's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Wa All Stars has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Joseph Afful 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

Mohammed Nuhu 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.

In brief

Back issues
8 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Thomas Waris damages knee ligaments — 86 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 86 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

Tempers go at Wa All Stars

Joseph Afful 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.

Match

Wa All Stars come up short against Hasaacas

Hasaacas left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Amos Asante 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.

Squad

6 new faces, and Wa All Stars are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

Player ratings

Yaw Nuhu runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

7 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Albert Essien

Successful dribbles: 58. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Thomas Waris damages knee ligaments — 93 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 93 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

Wa All Stars lose Joseph Afful

37 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad

Mohammed Nuhu 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.

Match

Heart of Lions take the points off Wa All Stars

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Mohammed Wakaso 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.

In brief

  • Player ratings Off the bench and decisive: Yaw Annor
  • Market The window shut and Yaw Annor is still in the building
6 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Albert Essien

Successful dribbles: 52. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Thomas Waris damages knee ligaments — 100 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 100 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market

Jonathan Sulemana asks to leave Wa All Stars

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market

So close: Isaac Baba’s move dies late

The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Asante Kotoko moved on, Isaac Baba reports back to Wa All Stars, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.

Squad

Tempers go at Wa All Stars

Joseph Afful 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.

Squad

Real improvement from Kwame Schlupp at Wa All Stars

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Kwame Schlupp is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Boardroom

4 academy players handed senior numbers at Wa All Stars

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Squad

Words at Wa All Stars training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mohammed Nuhu 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.

Market

Wa All Stars promote Albert Adjei from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Albert Adjei has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

In brief

5 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Thomas Waris damages knee ligaments — 107 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 107 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market

Wa All Stars sell their best player to Medeama

$810.0K is a serious amount of money and it does not play centre-forward. Everybody in the dressing room knows who used to be looked at when it went wrong.

Market

Wa All Stars say no — this time

The offer from Great Olympics for Amos Asante 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.

The terraces

Supporters turn on the $810.0K sale of Christian Atiemo

He is going to Medeama, the club has $810.0K it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.

Market

Isaac Wakaso 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.

Squad

Joseph Afful 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.

In brief

4 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Thomas Waris

115 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Wa All Stars lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market

Wa All Stars make Yaw Annor the dearest name in their history

$44.0K. Fees like that buy a footballer and rent a debate: every touch will be measured against the number for a season at least.

Market

Yaw Annor 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 Asante Kotoko for Isaac 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

Tempers go at Wa All Stars

Joseph Afful 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 terraces

Wa All Stars spend $44.0K on the signing the town wanted

It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $44.0K for Yaw Annor, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.

In brief

  • Squad Words at Wa All Stars training over how hard people work
  • Squad 6 new faces, and Wa All Stars are still learning each other
3 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Thomas Waris damages knee ligaments — 123 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 123 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market

Wa All Stars make Godfred Yawson the dearest name in their history

$150.0K. Fees like that buy a footballer and rent a debate: every touch will be measured against the number for a season at least.

Market

Hearts of Oak come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Wa All Stars did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Wa All Stars count the cost of losing Joseph Afful

66 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad

Joseph Afful 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.

The terraces

$150.0K for Godfred Yawson, and Wa All Stars supporters approve

Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Godfred Yawson from Bechem United for $150.0K, and a ticket office having a very good morning.

In brief

1 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Thomas Waris stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Thomas Waris and Wa All Stars agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Tempers go at Wa All Stars

Joseph Afful 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.

Squad

Words at Wa All Stars training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yaw Nuhu 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.

In brief