“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 The request is on a desk at Hasaacas, and it is not being withdrawn.
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Yaw Wakaso will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Hasaacas the goodbyes have quietly begun.
15 goals in 30 games at Inter Allies — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Hasaacas updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
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.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Hasaacas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
“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 The request is on a desk at Hasaacas, and it is not being withdrawn.
Kwame Paintsil and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad3 May 2027
Words at Hasaacas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Israel Odedele 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.
Not a new contract, not a new number: a new place in the manager’s thinking, which is the only promotion in football that actually matters. a squad player has moved up it.
In brief
The dugoutDeruo Wisdom asks for a word with the manager
“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.
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Yaw Wakaso will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Hasaacas the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Israel Odedele 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.
15 goals in 29 games at Inter Allies — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Hasaacas updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
Level with 90 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon Hasaacas had all but put away. WAFA will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. a squad player knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Hasaacas have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Hasaacas is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
15 goals in 26 games at Inter Allies — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Hasaacas updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Words at Hasaacas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Israel Odedele 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 clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Hasaacas is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Isaac Adjei 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.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Words at Hasaacas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Israel Odedele 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.
14 goals in 22 games at Inter Allies — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Hasaacas updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
Successful dribbles: 15. 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.
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Christian Kyereh and Hasaacas agree another 3 years.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Kwadwo Mensah was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Hasaacas dressing room was either.
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
The phone has started ringing about Yaw Wakaso again, and this time the name on the line is Inter Allies. Hasaacas are listening politely and promising nothing.
Abeiku Mohammed and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Isaac Adjei 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.
Both clubs in the mire, one fixture between them, and a ground that will be louder and more frightened than at any point in the season. Hasaacas know what is at stake and so does everybody in the away end.
The offer from PWD Bamenda for Yaw Wakaso 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 deal that would have taken Edmund Bukari to Liberty Professionals has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Hasaacas with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
7.56, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Hasaacas asked and Medeama said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at Hasaacas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Israel Odedele 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 last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Hasaacas have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Jai Semenyo has just signed for Hasaacas, and for once the answer mattered.
Israel Odedele 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Isaac Adjei was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Liberty Professionals arrived with $120.0K and left with the best player in the building. The board will call it business; the queue at the ticket office will use other words.
“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.
Position 14 and 17 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.
Francis Owusu has gone, the accounts have $120.0K in them, and the supporters have the feeling of having been sold something themselves. Good business and a good decision are not always the same thing.
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Bechem United have kept their man, and Hasaacas go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Edmund Bukari wins it after the whistle should have gone
92 minutes played. Edmund Bukari found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Ashanti Gold went from a point to nothing inside one movement.
Two goals and a mark of 9.11 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
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.
At 22 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.
Successful dribbles: 14. 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.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Hasaacas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Wa All Stars in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
“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.
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $27.8K — a club that wants Ebenezer Ackahbi enough to be asked twice.
The offer went to Medeama this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
The offer went to Asante Kotoko this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Hasaacas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Hasaacas have gone to Hearts of Oak with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Hasaacas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Yaw Wakaso, and the manager let it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Hasaacas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. a squad player 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.
A new face in his position and a shirt he thought he owned suddenly up for discussion. Hasaacas have promised nothing, which is what clubs promise at this stage.
A season-long look at somebody else’s player: Kwame Paintsil arrives from Wa All Stars with something to prove and a return ticket in the drawer. Good loans make everybody richer; this one starts Saturday.
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Abeiku Mohammed has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.