Gladson Partey

Left Back - Heart of Lions
18 Sep 2028
Monday
Process

Marked for Gladson Partey

77 Edition

The Heart of Lions Herald

17 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Heart of Lions make Oluwaseun Oladimeji the dearest name in their history

$390.0K. Fees like that buy a footballer and rent a debate: every touch will be measured against the number for a season at least.

Squad

Ibrahim Samed breaks a bone — 56 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 56 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings

Both of them Ishmael Addo's — 8.88

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.88, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Market

Hensen Anponsa 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 Heart of Lions can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Ishmael Addo stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Ishmael Addo and Heart of Lions agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Tempers go at Heart of Lions

Damián González Hernández 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

A move Gladson Partey would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Gladson Partey is living that version at Heart of Lions, and it tends to show in the first month.

The terraces

Heart of Lions spend $390.0K on the signing the town wanted

It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $390.0K for Oluwaseun Oladimeji, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.

Match

Heart of Lions see off Asante Kotoko

Three points for Heart of Lions, 2‑1 the final word against Asante Kotoko in a contest settled by the finer margins.

In brief

Back issues
26 Edition

The Hasaacas Gazette

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Joseph Boakye keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Hasaacas may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market

Kwadwo Ofori asks to leave Hasaacas

“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.

Squad

Tempers go at Hasaacas

Ernest Appiah 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

Nobody could stop scoring

6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Hasaacas and Asante Kotoko in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

Squad

Abdul Boakye 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.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Nana Nuhu at his very best

Marked 8.16. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Hasaacas.

Squad

Albert 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

Honours even between Hasaacas and Asante Kotoko

3‑3, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Player ratings

An afternoon Joseph Boakye will want back

Marked 5.63. Nothing he attempted worked and by the hour mark he had stopped attempting much, which is the part a manager notices rather than the mistakes.

In brief