“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Wa All Stars have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Kegan Johannes and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
“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.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Nana Baba 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.
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Wa All Stars told Michael Ephson something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
Nobody at Wa All Stars will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
“Nobody outside is coming to save us.” It was short, it was not comfortable, and by all accounts the Wa All Stars squad were quieter afterwards than they had been all season.
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Nana Ayew will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Wa All Stars the goodbyes have quietly begun.
“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 chase for Amadu Abdulai ended with $180.0K changing hands and Bechem United out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Kegan Johannes and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Amadu Abdulai was the name on every phone-in, and the club has gone and signed him for $180.0K. For one week the board can do no wrong, which is a week most boards never get.
Wa All Stars asked and WAFA said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Isa Aji was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Asante Kotoko have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Kegan Johannes 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Isa Aji was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Wa All Stars, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Isa Aji was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
“I watch every Wa All Stars game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at HIFK runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Mohammed Mensah left the room before anybody could ask which.
“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Wa All Stars will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.