Marked for Daniel Asante
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market24 May 2027
Only the photograph left for Daniel Partey
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Daniel Partey will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around WAFA the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad24 May 2027
Tempers go at WAFA
Yaw Mensah 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 May 2027
Words at WAFA training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Daniel Asante 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.
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Match3 May 2027
WAFA up to position 3
60 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad3 May 2027
Thomas Gyan is the real thing at 19
A season average of 7.05 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. WAFA know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
Squad3 May 2027
Yaw Mensah 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.
Squad3 May 2027
Daniel Asante 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.
Boardroom3 May 2027
$77.2K on the table at WAFA
The board have answered with money instead of encouragement, which is the only answer a manager ever wants. Spending it well is now entirely his problem.
Squad3 May 2027
The manager makes an example of Baba Mohammed
“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
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Market
The Baba Inusah talk will not go away
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Boardroom
The WAFA board choose calm
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Upbeat
Squad12 Apr 2027
Yaw Mensah 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.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Daniel Asante 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.
Loan watch12 Apr 2027
“I did not go to Inter Allies to sit and watch. I want to come back to WAFA and fight for my place.” 2 appearances in 13 matches say the rest.
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Match27 Mar 2027
WAFA make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now WAFA have 3 straight wins of it.
Market29 Mar 2027
Only the photograph left for Daniel Partey
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Daniel Partey will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around WAFA the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Player ratings29 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Abdul 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.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Yaw Mensah 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.
Match27 Mar 2027
Hearts of Oak made WAFA work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings29 Mar 2027
Marked 8.17 — 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.
Squad29 Mar 2027
A booking nobody needed, on a night the game was already won. WAFA lose a player for the most avoidable reason there is.
Squad29 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Kwadwo Asante
“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
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Player ratings
The pass was always on for Emmanuel Annan
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Boardroom
The WAFA dressing room answers
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
Two goals and a mark of 8.31 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match20 Mar 2027
8 unbeaten for WAFA
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 8 matches without defeat is a foundation WAFA did not have in the autumn.
Match20 Mar 2027
WAFA get the job done against Hasaacas
A 3‑2 win over Hasaacas, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad22 Mar 2027
12 goals and a season average of 7.27. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Words at WAFA training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Daniel Asante 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 ratings22 Mar 2027
Ninety minutes of Baba Inusah at his very best
Marked 8.52. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at WAFA.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Tempers go at WAFA
Harrison Ayew 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.
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match8 Mar 2027
WAFA refuse to drop out of the race
Position 3, 51 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Thomas Gyan is the real thing at 19
A season average of 7.05 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. WAFA know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Abeiku Sulemana and WAFA agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Tempers go at WAFA
Yaw Mensah 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.
Match6 Mar 2027
Whatever happens, WAFA do not lose
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Words at WAFA training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Daniel Asante 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 ratings8 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Boardroom8 Mar 2027
WAFA release $77.2K for the manager
The board have put money on the table rather than an encouraging word. What happens to it now is somebody else's problem, and somebody else's job.
Match6 Mar 2027
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.
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Upbeat
Player ratings1 Mar 2027
No sign of nerves from Harrison Ayew at 19 — 8.11
The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Harrison Ayew did not need any: 8.11, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Player ratings1 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market1 Mar 2027
“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.
Match27 Feb 2027
WAFA cannot stop winning
4 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Market1 Mar 2027
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.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Yaw Mensah 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.
Squad1 Mar 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Amos Kyereh and WAFA agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Daniel Asante 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.
Loan watch1 Mar 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at WAFA, and 0 appearances in 6 say he has earned the hearing.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.23, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Ernest Ofori: 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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Yaw Mensah 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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Daniel Asante 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.
Match13 Feb 2027
It finished 2‑1, and it was Kwadwo Partey’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to WAFA.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.10, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Loan watch15 Feb 2027
“I did not go to Inter Allies to sit and watch. I want to come back to WAFA and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
Squad15 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Isaac Kyereh
“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.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match8 Feb 2027
WAFA are in among the leaders
Position 3 and 41 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
No sign of nerves from Harrison Ayew at 19 — 8.24
The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Harrison Ayew did not need any: 8.24, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Thomas Gyan is the real thing at 19
A season average of 7.01 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. WAFA know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
Match6 Feb 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Abeiku Sulemana. 3‑1 against Asante Kotoko, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at WAFA training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Daniel Asante 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 terraces8 Feb 2027
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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Defences have started doubling up on Emmanuel Annan
11 goals and a season average of 7.24 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Marked 8.15 — 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
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Squad
Tempers go at WAFA
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Boardroom
WAFA release $77.2K for the manager
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Market
The Baba Inusah question follows WAFA around
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market25 Jan 2027
“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.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Tempers go at WAFA
Abdul 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Words at WAFA training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yaw Mensah 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.
Match23 Jan 2027
Great Olympics left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad25 Jan 2027
A booking nobody needed, on a night the game was already won. WAFA lose a player for the most avoidable reason there is.
Squad25 Jan 2027
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. WAFA told Harrison Ayew something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
Market25 Jan 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Kwadwo Partey’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Chances created: 4. Not on the scoresheet and not remotely anonymous — a passing performance that pulled a defence apart without leaving a mark on the column that gets read.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 42. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match16 Jan 2027
Chastening afternoon for WAFA
A 1‑4 beating by Wa All Stars was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
No sign of nerves from Thomas Gyan at 19 — 7.88
The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Thomas Gyan did not need any: 7.88, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Market18 Jan 2027
Abeiku Essien 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 WAFA can pretend not to have heard.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Yaw Mensah 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Abdul 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Daniel Asante
“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.
Boardroom18 Jan 2027
Inquest at WAFA
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
Market18 Jan 2027
The Daniel Partey conversation is coming
Everyone has stopped pretending: Hasaacas will make the call about Daniel Partey this week. WAFA have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Squad21 Dec 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 10 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match19 Dec 2026
Some goals win a match and some take one off somebody else. Baba Inusah scored in the 89th minute, Ashanti Gold had already begun thinking about the journey home, and WAFA took the lot.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 28 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match19 Dec 2026
Nobody wants to play WAFA right now
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Abdul 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Yaw Mensah 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 terraces21 Dec 2026
WAFA supporters have found a favourite in Harrison Ayew
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 19-year-old it feels ownership of. Harrison Ayew 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.
Match19 Dec 2026
A 1‑0 win over Ashanti Gold, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.01, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 42 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Christian Ofori, 35, rolls back the years — 8.86
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.86 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad7 Dec 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Abdul 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.
Match5 Dec 2026
Hasaacas made WAFA work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 42. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match21 Nov 2026
3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.19, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Jeffrey Waris out for 22 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Yaw Mensah 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Daniel Asante 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 43. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Jeffrey Waris breaks a bone — 39 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 39 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Abdul 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Yaw Mensah 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Isaac Amoah, and the manager let it.
Match7 Nov 2026
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Inter Allies came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad2 Nov 2026
Jeffrey Waris breaks a bone — 46 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 46 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
No sign of nerves from Thomas Gyan at 19 — 7.71
The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Thomas Gyan did not need any: 7.71, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Tempers go at WAFA
Abdul 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.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at WAFA training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Daniel Asante 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 terraces2 Nov 2026
WAFA supporters have found a favourite in Thomas Gyan
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 19-year-old it feels ownership of. Thomas Gyan 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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 40. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Jeffrey Waris out for 54 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.
Squad26 Oct 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.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 53. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Jeffrey Waris breaks a bone — 62 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 62 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
No sign of nerves from Thomas Gyan at 19 — 8.25
The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Thomas Gyan did not need any: 8.25, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Amos Kyereh is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Tempers go at WAFA
Abdul 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about WAFA and Liberty Professionals in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Match17 Oct 2026
A 4‑2 win over Liberty Professionals, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at WAFA training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Daniel Asante 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
WAFA are shipping goals every week
Two or more conceded in each of the last 4 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad28 Sep 2026
Jeffrey Waris breaks a bone — 83 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 83 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
No sign of nerves from Harrison Ayew at 19 — 8.45
The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Harrison Ayew did not need any: 8.45, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Yaw Mensah 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Daniel Asante 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
A 2‑1 win over Aduana Stars, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The terraces28 Sep 2026
WAFA supporters have found a favourite in Harrison Ayew
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 19-year-old it feels ownership of. Harrison Ayew 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 ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Marked 8.16 — 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Ernest Ofori 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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad14 Sep 2026
Jeffrey Waris breaks a bone — 97 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 97 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market14 Sep 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.
Squad14 Sep 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Yaw Mensah 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
WAFA come up short against Medeama
Medeama left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Isaac Kyereh dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad7 Sep 2026
Jeffrey Waris breaks a bone — 106 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 106 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
A debut Thomas Gyan will not forget — 7.64
There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 0 on the scoresheet, 7.64 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.
Market7 Sep 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market7 Sep 2026
Ernest Ofori 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 WAFA can pretend not to have heard.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Amos Mensah is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at WAFA
Abdul 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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Graduation day at WAFA
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at WAFA training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Daniel Asante 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Gladson Djiku 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
Andre Mohammed damages knee ligaments — 15 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 15 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
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
Yaw Mensah 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Daniel Asante 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Albert Bukari commits to WAFA for another 3 years.
Market17 Aug 2026
Baba Partey is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at WAFA has been clear about where Baba Partey stands, which is more than many ever get.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Andre Mohammed
22 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.
Market10 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. WAFA have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.