Erick Dala

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The Great Olympics Gazette

12 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Yussif Moro Owusu 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 The request is on a desk at Great Olympics, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match

No end in sight to Great Olympics's wait for a win

6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Great Olympics has to find a result from somewhere.

Market

Matthew Agama is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Great Olympics is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Osafo Antwi says Great Olympics went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Kelvin Nkrumah

Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Kelvin Nkrumah 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 Great Olympics this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

The team sheet said everything about Kamel Belmiloud

Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Kamel Belmiloud.

Market

Great Olympics sign Erick Dala, one for the future

Erick Dala is 18, and Great Olympics have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

Squad

Erick Dala signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Erick Dala commits to Great Olympics for another 3 years.

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