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From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad14 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Abeiku Atiemo
22 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. WAFA lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Joseph Owusu beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 34. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Market14 Sep 2026
Abdul Adjei 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 WAFA can pretend not to have heard.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at WAFA
Afriyie Partey 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout14 Sep 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.
The dugout14 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 1‑3 Daniel Nuhu left the room before anybody could ask which.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Harrison Schlupp and WAFA agree another 3 years.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Chibueze Ezeifule trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Steady
Market31 Aug 2026
Abeiku Adjei 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 WAFA can pretend not to have heard.
Squad31 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 WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
WAFA offered $210.0K; Aduana Stars said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Looking ahead31 Aug 2026
WAFA take on the side everybody is chasing
Ashanti Gold arrive as leaders. A side at the top is beaten roughly once a month, and the club that does it gets a week it remembers for a year.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A row about effort at WAFA
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nana Baba 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 Jeffrey Atiemo
“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.
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Steady
Market10 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Medeama come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and WAFA did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Joseph Owusu commits to WAFA for another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at WAFA
Abeiku Adjei 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Hearts of Oak 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.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
Abeiku Adjei 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 WAFA, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad10 Aug 2026
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.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Kwame Nuhu, and the manager let it.
Market10 Aug 2026
Abeiku Addo is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at WAFA has been clear about where Abeiku Addo stands, which is more than many ever get.