The Liberty Professionals Chronicle
Boardroom3 Jul 2028
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Liberty Professionals
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Market3 Jul 2028
Baba Asante is a Liberty Professionals player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Squad3 Jul 2028
Yaw Amankwa 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 Liberty Professionals this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Jul 2028
Kwadwo Djiku stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Kwadwo Djiku and Liberty Professionals agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Jul 2028
Pinna Sagbamaowei 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.
Boardroom3 Jul 2028
Intake day at the Liberty Professionals academy
6 arrivals, an average age nobody would call a squad, and a set of parents being shown around a building their sons will spend more time in than at home. The scouting has already happened; today is only the paperwork.
Market3 Jul 2028
Yaw Annor is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Liberty Professionals has been clear about where Yaw Annor stands, which is more than many ever get.
Squad3 Jul 2028
The armband comes off Naledi Hlongwane
Liberty Professionals will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.
Boardroom3 Jul 2028
$4.0M taken back off the Liberty Professionals table
What was available in the summer has quietly gone. Upstairs nobody will call it a change of ambition; downstairs nobody will call it anything else.
In brief
- Market Gladson Adjei linked with a move away
- Market The shop window has Gladson Kudus in it