Marked for Baba Addo
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad23 Nov 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Isa Aji 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.
The terraces23 Nov 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Albert Addo has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match21 Nov 2026
A 1‑0 win over Ashanti Gold, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Marked 8.04 — 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.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
A performance of 8.00 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Henry Ndedi, and the manager let it.
Loan watch23 Nov 2026
“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 dugout23 Nov 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.” Mohammed Mensah kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
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Steady
Squad26 Oct 2026
Kegan Johannes and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The terraces26 Oct 2026
He is 18 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Samuel Baba. 1‑0 against Medeama, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Wa All Stars training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yaw Mohammed 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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.99 on the card, and the Wa All Stars support went home talking about one name.
Loan watch26 Oct 2026
“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 9 say he has earned the hearing.
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.” Mohammed Mensah kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
When it matters, Baba Addo plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
12 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
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Crisis
Squad5 Oct 2026
Anderson Asiedu 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.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“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.
Match3 Oct 2026
0‑1 to Hearts of Oak, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Yaw Mohammed was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Baba Addo and Wa All Stars agree another 1 years.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Both jobs done by Ramon Azeez — 6.77
A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 9 actions, 6.77, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at Wa All Stars
7 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Chances created: 7. The column nobody reads carried the whole story of the match, and his name was at the top of it.
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Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
Albert Addo 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Wa All Stars training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Isa Aji 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Mohammed Mensah chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.
Market21 Sep 2026
Wa All Stars have made Abraham Nuhu available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
Looking ahead21 Sep 2026
A test against the best for Wa All Stars
The team at the top of the table next, and the honest measure of where this side actually is. Anybody can beat the club below them; the question is what happens against Hasaacas.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Nana Ayew knocks on the manager's door
“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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Baba Addo beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 11. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.