Marked for Christian Ofori
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market1 Nov 2027
Kwadwo Asante 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.
Squad1 Nov 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.
Match30 Oct 2027
Bechem United left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings1 Nov 2027
Baba Inusah was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.17. 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.
Player ratings1 Nov 2027
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad1 Nov 2027
Yaw Mensah knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Yaw Mensah trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad1 Nov 2027
When it matters, Amos Kyereh plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Squad1 Nov 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.
Market1 Nov 2027
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at WAFA, another week without a signature from Christian Ofori.
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Steady
Player ratings11 Oct 2027
Successful dribbles: 38. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match6 Oct 2027
WAFA bow out of the cup
Liberty Professionals go through and WAFA go home, 1‑3 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Player ratings11 Oct 2027
No sign of nerves from Thomas Gyan at 20 — 7.96
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Thomas Gyan did not need any: 7.96, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Market11 Oct 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.
Squad11 Oct 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.
Squad11 Oct 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.
Match9 Oct 2027
Great Olympics made WAFA work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings11 Oct 2027
The afternoon belonged to Baba Inusah
7.76, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. WAFA had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Loan watch11 Oct 2027
“I watch every WAFA game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Inter Allies runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
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Upbeat
Player ratings4 Oct 2027
Successful dribbles: 58. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match2 Oct 2027
Still nobody has beaten WAFA
The unbeaten run reaches 14. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad4 Oct 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” WAFA may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad4 Oct 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Gladson Asamoah commits to WAFA for another 2 years.
Squad4 Oct 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.
Squad4 Oct 2027
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.
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Upbeat
Squad9 Aug 2027
Yaw Mensah breaks a bone — 50 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 50 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad9 Aug 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.
Squad9 Aug 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.
Market9 Aug 2027
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Squad9 Aug 2027
When it matters, Thomas Gyan plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market9 Aug 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. WAFA know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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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.
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Upbeat
Squad25 Jan 2027
Solomon Agbesi damages knee ligaments — 14 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 14 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.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Two goals and a mark of 8.50 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Match25 Jan 2027
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.
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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Hearts of Oak this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Aly Abeid 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 terraces25 Jan 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Siyanda Ndlovu 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.
Match23 Jan 2027
It finished 2‑0, and it was Siyanda Ndlovu’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Hearts of Oak.
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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.
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Triumph
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 35. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match11 Jan 2027
WAFA refuse to drop out of the race
Position 2, 37 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.
Market11 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
The name of Christian Ofori has come up in conversations WAFA were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad11 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.
Match9 Jan 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.
Match9 Jan 2027
Nobody wins at WAFA
9 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Squad11 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Defences have started doubling up on Emmanuel Annan
11 goals and a season average of 7.26 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
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Upbeat
Match2 Jan 2027
WAFA win it in stoppage time
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 91th minute. BA All Stars will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market4 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 14 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Harrison Ayew, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 7.63
A mark of 7.63 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad4 Jan 2027
An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and WAFA have had the benefit of it.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad4 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.
Match2 Jan 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Emmanuel Annan. 3‑2 against BA All Stars, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
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Upbeat
Squad14 Dec 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 35 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Christian Ofori, 35, rolls back the years — 7.97
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.97 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad14 Dec 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
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.
Match12 Dec 2026
Hearts of Oak made WAFA work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
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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.
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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.
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Upbeat
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Two goals and a mark of 9.17 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Jeffrey Waris breaks a bone — 30 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 30 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A one-man rearguard from Abdul Adjei
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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
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.
Match14 Nov 2026
A 3‑2 win over New Edubiase United, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at WAFA training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abdul 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.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Marked 8.19 — 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.
Market16 Nov 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Baba Inusah’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 11. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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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.
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Crisis
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 44. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match7 Oct 2026
The small margins put WAFA out
Out, 2‑3 to Medeama, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Jeffrey Waris breaks a bone — 69 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 69 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
No sign of nerves from Thomas Gyan at 19 — 8.00
The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Thomas Gyan did not need any: 8.00, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad12 Oct 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Abeiku Essien is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
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Steady
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 33. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Jeffrey Waris breaks a bone — 76 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 76 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A one-man rearguard from Abdul Adjei
There were 8 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.
Squad5 Oct 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
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.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
A performance of 8.08 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
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Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
Jeffrey Waris breaks a bone — 90 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 90 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
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.
Squad21 Sep 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.
Squad21 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
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.
Match19 Sep 2026
Three points for WAFA, 2‑0 the final word against BA All Stars in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.30 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Market21 Sep 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Baba Inusah’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
The substitution nobody applauded turned out to be the whole story. WAFA were going nowhere until he came on.
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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.
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Steady
Squad31 Aug 2026
Jeffrey Waris breaks a bone — 113 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 113 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market31 Aug 2026
WAFA say no — this time
The offer from Ashanti Gold for Yaw Mensah 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
“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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Great Olympics have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Christian Ofori. The answer from WAFA has not changed — yet.
Squad31 Aug 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.
Squad31 Aug 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad24 Aug 2026
A fracture rules Jeffrey Waris out for 121 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
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 Aug 2026
Words at WAFA training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Isaac Kyereh 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Jonathan Nuhu and WAFA agree another 3 years.
Market24 Aug 2026
Baba Mohammed 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 Mohammed stands, which is more than many ever get.
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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.