Marked for David Paintsil
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market31 Aug 2026
The unthinkable, invoiced: Mohammed Kyereh sold
Asante Kotoko arrived with $150.0K and left with the best player in the building. The board will call it business; the queue at the ticket office will use other words.
Market31 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Wa All Stars, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad31 Aug 2026
31 days out for David Paintsil after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Wa All Stars will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
Mohammed Kyereh has gone, the accounts have $150.0K in them, and the supporters have the feeling of having been sold something themselves. Good business and a good decision are not always the same thing.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Wa All Stars have done the hard part with Mamelodi Sundowns, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Anderson Asiedu and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market24 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A fracture rules David Paintsil out for 38 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Wa All Stars 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Wa All Stars have done the hard part with Mamelodi Sundowns, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad24 Aug 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 Wa All Stars this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Rivers United have kept their man, and Wa All Stars go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Wa All Stars training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Albert Paintsil 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
No place for Henry Ndedi in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Wa All Stars are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
A loan move for Kegan Johannes is in the works
Wa All Stars have made the call to Mamelodi Sundowns. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market3 Aug 2026
The offer from Stabaek for Jeffrey Adjei 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Albert Addo 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 Wa All Stars this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Wa All Stars training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Albert Paintsil 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
The formation has left Ramon Azeez behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Wa All Stars will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Medeama 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan move for Sharif Shuaib is in the works
Wa All Stars have made the call to Hearts of Oak. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
Samuel Baba asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Market3 Aug 2026
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” David Paintsil has his answer from Wa All Stars; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Market3 Aug 2026
At 33, he has seen every situation this season can produce, twice. The legs will be managed; the head is the purchase.