Marked for Baba Mohammed
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
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
Back issues
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Upbeat
Market26 Apr 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.
Squad26 Apr 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.
Squad26 Apr 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.
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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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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.