Albert Schlupp

Central Defender - WAFA
10 Jul 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Albert Schlupp

47 Edition

The WAFA Post

21 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Baba Partey out for 35 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason WAFA will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

WAFA turn down Aduana Stars for Baba Partey

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market

Mohammed Inusah is a WAFA player

The fee is $430.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Hasaacas drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.

In brief

Back issues
46 Edition

The WAFA Post

14 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Baba Partey out for 42 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason WAFA will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

WAFA turn down Great Olympics for Andre Acquah

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 WAFA

Shachar Rosen 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.

In brief

44 Edition

The WAFA Post

31 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Baba Partey out for 56 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason WAFA will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

Tempers go at WAFA

Shachar Rosen 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 WAFA training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Albert Schlupp 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

43 Edition

The WAFA Post

24 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Shachar Rosen 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 WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Albert Schlupp 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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Francis Adjei

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief

41 Edition

The WAFA Post

10 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Baba Partey has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around WAFA they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Shachar Rosen 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 WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Albert Schlupp 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

40 Edition

The WAFA Post

3 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Tempers go at WAFA

Shachar Rosen 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 WAFA training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Albert Schlupp 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.

Squad

Albert Schlupp knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at WAFA, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

38 Edition

The WAFA Post

19 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Francis Gyan: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” WAFA have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Shachar Rosen 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 WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Albert Schlupp 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

37 Edition

The WAFA Post

12 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Baba Partey has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around WAFA they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Tempers go at WAFA

Shachar Rosen 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 WAFA training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Albert Schlupp 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

35 Edition

The WAFA Post

29 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Tempers go at WAFA

Shachar Rosen 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 WAFA training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Albert Schlupp 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.

Match

WAFA come up short against Hearts of Oak

Hearts of Oak left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

In brief

34 Edition

The WAFA Post

22 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Andre Acquah settles it late for WAFA

The 89th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and Andre Acquah decided nobody was going anywhere. Hasaacas had no time left to answer.

Player ratings

Kwame Atiemo runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Shachar Rosen 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 WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Albert Schlupp 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.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Andre Acquah

At 17 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.

Match

WAFA find a way past Hasaacas

Hasaacas made WAFA work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

In brief

33 Edition

The WAFA Post

15 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Kwame Atiemo runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 28. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Isaac Nuhu

20 goals and a season average of 7.36 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Mohamed Raafat at 20 — 7.73

The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Mohamed Raafat did not need any: 7.73, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Market

Kwadwo Boateng 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 WAFA, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match

4 matches without a win for WAFA

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around WAFA are no longer polite ones.

Market

Baba Partey is on his way

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

Squad

Tempers go at WAFA

Francis 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.

Squad

Words at WAFA training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Shachar Rosen 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 terraces

The crowd has taken to Thomas Sulemana

At 23 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.

In brief

32 Edition

The WAFA Post

8 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Thomas Sulemana runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 45. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Andre Mensah sold, and an era ends

$3.1M from Inter Miami CF for Andre Mensah. Money is money, but the dressing room has lost the man it looked to.

Market

Daniel Haces 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 WAFA, and it is not being withdrawn.

The terraces

WAFA sell a favourite for $3.1M

The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Andre Mensah was one of the reasons people came, and $3.1M does not replace that by itself.

Squad

Francis Annan stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Francis Annan and WAFA agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Shachar Rosen 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 WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Albert Schlupp 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.

Squad

No place for Francis Adjei on the big day

He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at WAFA pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.

Match

Point won or two lost for WAFA?

Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Berekum Chelsea? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.

In brief

31 Edition

The WAFA Post

1 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Thomas Sulemana

Successful dribbles: 43. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Isaac Nuhu is carrying WAFA

19 goals and a season average of 7.35. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Squad

Tempers go at WAFA

Shachar Rosen 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 WAFA training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Albert Schlupp 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.

Player ratings

Isaac Nuhu was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.33. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Match

Honours even between WAFA and New Edubiase United

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

In brief

29 Edition

The WAFA Post

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Thomas Sulemana runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 38. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Isaac Nuhu

18 goals and a season average of 7.33 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Market

Only the photograph left for Baba Partey

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Baba Partey will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around WAFA the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Tempers go at WAFA

Shachar Rosen 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

WAFA get the job done against Bechem United

A 3‑1 win over Bechem United, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

Words at WAFA training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Albert Schlupp 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 terraces

The crowd has taken to Andre Afful

At 19 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.

Player ratings

Andre Mensah in the eights

A performance of 8.52 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Isaac Nuhu

Marked 8.23 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

In brief

28 Edition

The WAFA Post

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Thomas Sulemana

Successful dribbles: 38. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Shachar Rosen 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 WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Albert Schlupp 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.

Player ratings

Isaac Nuhu takes the honours

Marked 7.41 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, WAFA had the best player on the pitch.

Squad

Francis Annan named in the team of the month

A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Francis Annan is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.

Squad

David Djiku 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.

In brief

26 Edition

The WAFA Post

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

WAFA run riot against Great Olympics

4‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Squad

A fracture rules Andrew Boakye out for 25 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason WAFA will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Player ratings

A brace, and Andre Mensah takes the afternoon — 9.16

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Andre Mensah provided it, and the 9.16 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Market

Daniel Djiku 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 WAFA, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

New Edubiase United come back empty-handed

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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Shachar Rosen

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Isaac Nuhu is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.26 with 15 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Squad

Shachar Rosen 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 WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Albert Schlupp 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

25 Edition

The WAFA Post

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Thomas Sulemana

Successful dribbles: 47. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

WAFA say no — this time

The offer from Hearts of Oak for Thomas Sulemana 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.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Francis Annan

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad

Tempers go at WAFA

Shachar Rosen 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 WAFA training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Albert Schlupp 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.

Match

WAFA come up short against Wa All Stars

Wa All Stars left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Francis Mohammed 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

Albert Schlupp gives it away

There was no pressure on him and nowhere he had to be. WAFA lost a goal to a decision that took half a second and will be discussed all week.

Player ratings

The pass was always on for Mohammed Baba

Chances created: 7. Somebody has to open a door before anybody can walk through it, and he spent the afternoon opening doors.

In brief

  • Market WAFA shop where it costs nothing
  • Market Daniel Djiku placed on the list
22 Edition

The WAFA Post

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Isaac Nuhu scores twice — 8.33

Two goals and a mark of 8.33 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Match

WAFA get the job done against Medeama

A 3‑1 win over Medeama, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

Albert Schlupp 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.

Squad

Francis Adjei 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 WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

One of those days for Thomas Sulemana

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.32, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad

Isaac Nuhu is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.20 with 11 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

In brief

21 Edition

The WAFA Post

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Thomas Sulemana

Successful dribbles: 50. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

WAFA lose Felix Kyereh

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

Match

WAFA come up short against Ashanti Gold

Ashanti Gold left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Albert Schlupp

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad

Andre Acquah 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 WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Mohammed Baba is off the mark for WAFA

The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.

In brief

20 Edition

The WAFA Post

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

WAFA find a way past Hearts of Oak

Hearts of Oak made WAFA work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

Albert Schlupp 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

Hearts of Oak blown away early

There is a particular helplessness in conceding 2 times before the twentieth minute. Hearts of Oak tried to reorganise, WAFA did not allow it, and the result was written long before it was confirmed.

Player ratings

Thomas Sulemana in the eights

A performance of 8.47 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Andre Mensah at his very best

Marked 8.13. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at WAFA.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Isaac Nuhu

Marked 8.05 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Squad

David Djiku 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 WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Edmund Wakaso 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

Andre Mensah named player of the week

One weekend, judged against everybody else's. Andre Mensah has come out on top of it, and for most footballers a weekly award is the only silverware a career ever produces.

In brief

19 Edition

The WAFA Post

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Andre Mensah takes the match ball home

4 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

Match

WAFA refuse to lose, and Andre Mensah leads them

The 2-goal deficit was real and so was the recovery. Andre Mensah was at the centre of it, Hasaacas were at the end of it, and everybody who left early will hear about this one for years.

Market

Kwadwo Boateng 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 WAFA, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match

Andre Mensah the difference as WAFA beat Hasaacas

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Andre Mensah. 6‑5 against Hasaacas, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings

Andre Mensah was on a different afternoon to everybody else

9.93. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Squad

Words at WAFA training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Albert Schlupp 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 terraces

WAFA supporters have found a favourite in Thomas Sulemana

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Thomas Sulemana has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Player ratings

One of those days for Kwame Atiemo

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.25, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Thomas Sulemana at his very best

Marked 8.22. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at WAFA.

In brief

17 Edition

The WAFA Post

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Isaac Nuhu

Successful dribbles: 32. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Words at WAFA training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Albert Schlupp 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.

Squad

Tempers go at WAFA

David Djiku 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.

In brief

16 Edition

The WAFA Post

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

WAFA come up short against New Edubiase United

New Edubiase United left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Albert Schlupp 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.

Squad

Francis Adjei 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 WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

No hiding place for Francis Adjei

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Francis Adjei, and the manager let it.

Squad

WAFA pick somebody else ahead of Edmund Wakaso

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

Market

Andre Mensah linked with a move away

The name of Andre Mensah keeps appearing in other people's back pages. WAFA say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

14 Edition

The WAFA Post

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Thomas Sulemana

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

Squad

A fracture rules Andre Afful out for 17 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason WAFA will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match

The wait goes on for WAFA

7 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Player ratings

Francis Mohammed runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 28. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Albert Schlupp 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.

Player ratings

Andre Mensah takes the honours

Marked 7.95 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, WAFA had the best player on the pitch.

In brief

11 Edition

The WAFA Post

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Daniel Djiku decides it from twelve yards

2 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.

Match

Cup progress for WAFA

A 1‑1 win over Medeama, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Market

Edmund Addo 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 WAFA, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match

4 matches without a win for WAFA

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around WAFA are no longer polite ones.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Thomas Sulemana

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

Isaac Nuhu in the eights

A performance of 8.27 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad

No hiding place for Mohammed Baba

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mohammed Baba, and the manager let it.

Player ratings

Albert Schlupp misses from twelve yards

It was his to settle and he did not settle it. A long walk back to the halfway line, and a considerably longer week.

Squad

Words at WAFA training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Francis Adjei 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

10 Edition

The WAFA Post

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Thomas Sulemana runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 50. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

A bad afternoon for WAFA against Wa All Stars

0‑1 to Wa All Stars, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

David Djiku 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 WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

8 Edition

The WAFA Post

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Isaac Nuhu leads the rout of BA All Stars

3‑0, and Isaac Nuhu took the headlines on an afternoon when everything WAFA tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Player ratings

A brace, and Isaac Nuhu takes the afternoon — 8.40

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Isaac Nuhu provided it, and the 8.40 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Baba Partey at 17 — 7.66

The hardest thing about being 17 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Baba Partey did not need any: 7.66, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Squad

Francis Adjei 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 WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Andre Afful

At 18 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.

Player ratings

One of those days for Thomas Sulemana

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.08, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad

Francis 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Albert Schlupp

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Albert Schlupp, and the manager let it.

Squad

A WAFA teenager takes the young player award

Baba Partey is 17, and for one weekend he was the best of everybody his age in the division. Nobody should build a career on it and everybody quietly does.

In brief

4 Edition

The WAFA Post

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

WAFA turn down Ashanti Gold for Kwame Atiemo

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market

Francis Adjei asks to leave WAFA

“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

Andre Mensah 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.

In brief