The BA All Stars Gazette
Market2 Apr 2029
Hubert Gyau puts it in writing
“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 The request is on a desk at BA All Stars, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad2 Apr 2029
Abraham Mohammed signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Abraham Mohammed commits to BA All Stars for another 4 years.
Squad2 Apr 2029
Dennis Konney 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 BA All Stars this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad2 Apr 2029
Emmanuel Abban 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.
Squad2 Apr 2029
A step back for Abeiku Wakaso at BA All Stars
Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.
The dugout2 Apr 2029
Kwadwo Mensah knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Kwadwo Mensah trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market2 Apr 2029
BA All Stars and Junior Gqabashe are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Market2 Apr 2029
The Edmund Djiku story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Edmund Djiku signs something — a contract at BA All Stars or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout2 Apr 2029
The manager plants his flag on Amos Ayew
“Judge me on him.” Managers do not say that kind of thing by accident — it moves the pressure from Amos Ayew’s shoulders onto his own, and both of them know it.
In brief
- Match A season winding down at BA All Stars
- Boardroom The BA All Stars board choose calm