The Wa All Stars Courier
Squad5 Jul 2027
Daniel Addo 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.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Amos Afful is named among the best
There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Wa All Stars will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Wa All Stars count the cost of losing Dumisani Zuma
29 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Tempers go at Wa All Stars
Ebenezer Assifuah 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.
The terraces5 Jul 2027
$72.0K for Mohammed Bamba, and Wa All Stars supporters approve
Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Mohammed Bamba from Aduana Stars for $72.0K, and a ticket office having a very good morning.
Market5 Jul 2027
Eyes on Kamaldeen Owusu again
The phone has started ringing about Kamaldeen Owusu again, and this time the name on the line is New Edubiase United. Wa All Stars are listening politely and promising nothing.
Market5 Jul 2027
Wa All Stars and Ebenezer Assifuah are talking past each other
“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.
Boardroom5 Jul 2027
Wa All Stars release $106.6K 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.
Market5 Jul 2027
Wa All Stars sign Mohammed Bamba, one for the future
Mohammed Bamba is 20, and Wa All Stars have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
In brief
- Boardroom Wa All Stars sign 6 boys into the academy
- Market Wa All Stars borrow Hazem Gamal
- Boardroom The Wa All Stars board choose calm