The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Wa All Stars people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
A brace, and Jeffrey Adjei takes the afternoon — 9.03
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Jeffrey Adjei provided it, and the 9.03 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Kwame Inusah will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Wa All Stars the goodbyes have quietly begun.
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Wa All Stars have done the hard part with Abia Warriors, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Eric Oteng 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.
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Siyabonga Ngcobo has, at Wa All Stars, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Two goals and a mark of 9.28 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
He is 21, he is averaging 7.48, and older professionals have started passing to him in the difficult minutes. That last part is the real scouting report.
18 goals and a season average of 7.79. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
A brace, and Baba Schlupp takes the afternoon — 8.47
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Baba Schlupp provided it, and the 8.47 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.85 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Felix Addo will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Wa All Stars the goodbyes have quietly begun.
3 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.
The phone has started ringing about Patrick Mensah again, and this time the name on the line is Oriental. Wa All Stars are listening politely and promising nothing.
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Patrick Mensah provided it, and the 10.00 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Wa All Stars they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Wa All Stars this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
5 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.
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Wa All Stars is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
A season average of 7.09 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Wa All Stars know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words at Wa All Stars training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Eric Oteng 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.
He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
3 straight away victories. Sides that win away are usually sides that can defend and can counter, and the table has begun to reflect what those journeys have earned.
Marked 8.54 — 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
Player ratingsHarrison Bukari was on a different afternoon to everybody else
Two goals and a mark of 8.51 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
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.
Three points for Wa All Stars, 2‑1 the final word against Aduana Stars in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Segun Owoade 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.
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Ernest Amoah kept it short after the 2‑1 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
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.
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Wa All Stars have 5 straight wins of it.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Jeffrey Adjei, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.92
A mark of 7.92 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
“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 Wa All Stars, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Marked 8.44 — 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.
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Jeffrey Adjei did not need any: 8.97, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Wa All Stars can pretend not to have heard.
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Wa All Stars is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Wa All Stars and Heart of Lions, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.