Marked for Bernard Nuhu
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad7 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Thomas Agyepong
126 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Great Olympics lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 35. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The medical room confirms 14 days on the sidelines for Osas Okoro, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
4 academy players handed senior numbers at Great Olympics
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.
Match5 Sep 2026
Beaten 2‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Market7 Sep 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Abeiku Ofori has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market7 Sep 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. David Kyereh has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market7 Sep 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Harrison Acquah 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Patrick Bukari has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
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Steady
Squad31 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Thomas Agyepong
133 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Great Olympics lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad31 Aug 2026
20 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Godfred Asiamah 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
Squad24 Aug 2026
Thomas Agyepong 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Mxolisi Mthiya 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Anthony Okachi keeps the shirt for now, at Great Olympics's convenience rather than his own.
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Steady
Market24 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what WAFA can pretend not to have heard.
Market24 Aug 2026
The bid was some way short and WAFA did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at WAFA
Brahim Sabaouni 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad17 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“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.
Market17 Aug 2026
The name of Bernard Nuhu has come up in conversations WAFA were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Isaac Annan commits to WAFA for another 3 years.
Market17 Aug 2026
Everyone has stopped pretending: Berekum Chelsea will make the call about Abraham Inusah this week. WAFA have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.