Marked for Andrew Wakaso
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Steady
Squad23 Nov 2026
4 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Squad23 Nov 2026
25 goals and a season average of 7.59. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Match21 Nov 2026
It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. Great Olympics kept coming because nothing stopped them, and Liberty Professionals will be asked about the last half hour all week.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Eric Oteng 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.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Patrick Mohammed was on a different afternoon to everybody else
9.86. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Match21 Nov 2026
A 4‑4 draw with Great Olympics leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
3 assists and not a goal for Baba Mensah
He laid on 3 and scored none, and would have been mildly offended to be asked why. The scorers get the headlines; the man who made them gets the respect of everybody who understood the match.
The dugout23 Nov 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.” Samuel Baba chose the glass-half-full version of 4‑4; the supporters left with the other one.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Andrew Wakaso 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.
Back issues
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Upbeat
Squad26 Oct 2026
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Defences have started doubling up on Patrick Mohammed
16 goals and a season average of 7.36 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Eric Oteng 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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Eric Oteng runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Marked 7.96 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Liberty Professionals had the best player on the pitch.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Andrew Wakaso and Liberty Professionals agree another 3 years.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Samuel Baba could afford to be generous.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
A defender's afternoon for Abdul Ayew
Defensive actions: 15. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
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Upbeat
Match7 Oct 2026
A 2‑1 win over Hasaacas, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
A debut Andrew Wakaso will not forget — 7.39
There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 1 on the scoresheet, 7.39 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 28. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
At 34 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.42, and nobody on the pitch better.
Market12 Oct 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Eric Oteng 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 Liberty Professionals this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match10 Oct 2026
1‑3 to Hearts of Oak, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The terraces12 Oct 2026
He is 19 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.
The dugout12 Oct 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 1‑3 Samuel Baba left the room before anybody could ask which.
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Triumph
Squad28 Sep 2026
3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Match26 Sep 2026
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Liberty Professionals have 3 straight wins of it.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Eric Oteng 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Yaw Partey is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Match26 Sep 2026
A 3‑2 win over Heart of Lions, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Patrick Mohammed was on a different afternoon to everybody else
9.45. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Samuel Baba on a 3‑2 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Umar Sadiq was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Steady
Market31 Aug 2026
Thomas Appiah hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Liberty Professionals can pretend not to have heard.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Patrick Mohammed and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and a squad player was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Kwame Owusu
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Looking ahead31 Aug 2026
A side in position 13 visits next. The result will not make anybody’s season and it could quietly break the shape of one, which is why the manager has been watching the video since Sunday.
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Steady
Market17 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Liberty Professionals have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market17 Aug 2026
Ernest Partey hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Liberty Professionals can pretend not to have heard.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Patrick Mohammed 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Umar Sadiq 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 dugout17 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Patrick Djiku, and the manager let it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Baba Kudus and Liberty Professionals agree another 3 years.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Afriyie Adjei has seen what the next man earns
Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room and never have. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and at Liberty Professionals that is a harder question to answer.
Market17 Aug 2026
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Bernard Owusu may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.