Central Midfielder - WAFA
28 Jul 2027
Wednesday
Process

Marked for

52 Edition

The WAFA Post

26 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Aminu Okocha damages knee ligaments — 17 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 17 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market

Christian Addo 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.

The dugout

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Squad

Nana Inusah 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.

Squad

A falling-out at WAFA

a squad player and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Market

Amos Inusah placed on the list

WAFA have made Amos Inusah available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

In brief

Back issues
51 Edition

The WAFA Post

19 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces

Supporters organise against the WAFA board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Squad

Aminu Okocha damages knee ligaments — 25 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 25 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the WAFA boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Match

WAFA are in real trouble now

Position 15, 17 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Market

Nana Inusah 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.

The dugout

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Market

WAFA turn down BA All Stars for Mohammed Boateng

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Words exchanged at WAFA

a squad player 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.

Squad

Abraham Bukari signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Abraham Bukari commits to WAFA for another 3 years.

In brief

49 Edition

The WAFA Post

5 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

The knee: Aminu Okocha out for 40 days

40 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. WAFA lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Boardroom

Isaac Afful has until the next board meeting

What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at WAFA can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.

Boardroom

Crisis meeting at WAFA

The official line will be that it was routine. It was not routine, the timing says so, and every person in that room knows what the next bad result costs.

Market

a squad player 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 WAFA, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout

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Squad

Nana Inusah 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.

Squad

a squad player 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 WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

WAFA sign 6 boys into the academy

None of them will be seen by anybody outside the training ground for three years, most of them will never play a senior match, and one of them might change the club. That is the whole proposition, and it is why academies exist.

The dugout

WAFA keep their word to Amos Mohammed

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

In brief

48 Edition

The WAFA Post

28 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Aminu Okocha damages knee ligaments — 48 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 48 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market

Amos Mohammed 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.

Squad

Abeiku Partey stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Abeiku Partey and WAFA agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout

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Squad

a squad player 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.

Squad

Tempers go at WAFA

Edmund Owusu 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.

In brief

46 Edition

The WAFA Post

14 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Aminu Okocha damages knee ligaments — 63 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 63 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market

Aminu Okocha 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 WAFA, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Nana Inusah 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.

Squad

Tempers go at WAFA

a squad player 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.

The dugout

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Market

Gladson Gyan 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 Gladson Gyan stands, which is more than many ever get.

Market

The a squad player talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. WAFA know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Squad

Aminu Okocha can feel the drop

The table is being checked before the results are in, which is always the tell. Nobody at WAFA says the word and every senior player in the building is thinking it.

Market

WAFA put Kamaldeen Waris up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Kamaldeen Waris may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

In brief

45 Edition

The WAFA Post

7 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Aminu Okocha damages knee ligaments — 72 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 72 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Boardroom

Isaac Afful has until the next board meeting

What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at WAFA can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.

Market

Albert Asante asks to leave WAFA

“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.

The dugout

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Squad

a squad player 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.

Market

No place for Amos Mohammed in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Amos Mohammed has his answer from WAFA; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

Squad

Words exchanged at WAFA

Edmund Owusu 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 dugout

Abdul Mensah has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at WAFA will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Boardroom

Open for business: WAFA enter the window

The registration window is open and the phone has started. Between now and the deadline this club will be linked with forty players and sign three, which is the usual ratio.

In brief

42 Edition

The WAFA Post

17 May 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Aminu Okocha damages knee ligaments — 94 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 94 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market

a squad player asks to leave WAFA

“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.

The dugout

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Squad

a squad player 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.

Squad

A falling-out at WAFA

Edmund Owusu and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Albert Inusah signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Albert Inusah and WAFA agree another 3 years.

Market

The a squad player talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. WAFA know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

The dugout

Daniel Bukari 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.

Market

The shop window has Edmund Owusu in it

WAFA have let the market know Edmund Owusu can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

In brief

41 Edition

The WAFA Post

10 May 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

The dugout

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Squad

Words at WAFA training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nana Inusah 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.

Squad

Christian 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 WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

When it matters, Abdul Mensah 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.

The dugout

Kamaldeen Bukari 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.

Market

WAFA put Nana Inusah up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Nana Inusah may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

In brief

40 Edition

The WAFA Post

3 May 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

WAFA spell it out for Isaac Afful

The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Isaac Afful has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.

Market

Daniel Bukari 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 WAFA, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout

Kwadwo Kudus says WAFA went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

The dugout

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Squad

Nana Inusah 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.

Squad

A falling-out at WAFA

a squad player and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Felix Boateng

“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.

The dugout

a squad player loses the manager who believed in him

A change in the dugout is not one story, it is twenty-five of them. This is a squad player's: he was somebody's player, and now he has to be somebody else's, starting from nothing.

Loan watch

Ashanti Gold cannot leave Amos Inusah out

25 starts and an average of 6.71. He went there to play and he is playing, which is the only thing a loan was ever for.

In brief

39 Edition

The WAFA Post

26 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces

Supporters organise against the WAFA board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Boardroom

The scrutiny sharpens at WAFA

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at WAFA is running low.

Match

Every point is an argument now for WAFA

Position 15 and 17 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Market

Kamaldeen Waris asks to leave WAFA

“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.

The dugout

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Squad

Words at WAFA training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. a squad player 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.

In brief

38 Edition

The WAFA Post

19 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

a squad player 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.

The dugout

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Squad

Words at WAFA training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nana Inusah 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.

Squad

Words exchanged at WAFA

a squad player 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.

Market

The a squad player question follows WAFA around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with a squad player’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

The dugout

Amos Appiah 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.

In brief

37 Edition

The WAFA Post

12 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Edmund Owusu 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.

The dugout

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Squad

A falling-out at WAFA

a squad player and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Words at WAFA training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nana Inusah 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.

The dugout

Nana Inusah 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.

Market

Mohammed Schlupp told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Mohammed Schlupp has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at WAFA.

In brief

36 Edition

The WAFA Post

5 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

WAFA spell it out for Isaac Afful

The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Isaac Afful has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.

Market

Nana Inusah 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 WAFA, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout

Emmanuel Baba: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” WAFA have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

a squad player 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 WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

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Squad

A row about effort at WAFA

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.

Squad

Felix Boateng slips down the pecking order

The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Felix Boateng is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.

The dugout

Nana Inusah 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 Nana Inusah trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Squad

Gladson Gyan moves up the pecking order

Nothing is announced when this happens and everybody knows. He is a bigger part of the plan at WAFA than he was a month ago, and the training ground worked that out before the team sheet said so.

In brief

34 Edition

The WAFA Post

22 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

10 saves: Abeiku Partey was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 10 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Market

a squad player 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.

The dugout

Baba Sulemana says WAFA went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Player ratings

Jonathan Paintsil was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 23. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Match

Jonathan Paintsil’s goal not enough for WAFA

Jonathan Paintsil scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑3 to Hasaacas, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Squad

Words at WAFA training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nana Inusah 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.

Squad

Words exchanged at WAFA

a squad player 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 dugout

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The manager makes an example of Nana Inusah

“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.

In brief

  • The dugout Isaac Afful faces the questions
  • Looking ahead WAFA take on the side everybody is chasing
  • Market The a squad player question follows WAFA around
33 Edition

The WAFA Post

15 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Kamaldeen Waris asks to leave WAFA

“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.

Player ratings

Vintage Amos Mohammed — 8.09

At 35 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.09, and nobody on the pitch better.

The dugout

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Jonathan Paintsil beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 22. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

Words at WAFA training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. a squad player 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.

Match

WAFA hit back inside 1 minutes

Heart of Lions held the lead for 1 minutes, which is not long enough to enjoy it. WAFA answered before the celebration had properly finished, and the shape of the afternoon changed with it.

The dugout

Kamaldeen Bukari gets it from the manager

“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.

Squad

Tempers go at WAFA

Edmund Owusu 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.

Match

Amos Mohammed rescues a point for WAFA

It needed Amos Mohammed to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Heart of Lions, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

In brief

  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • Market Albert Asante is free to find somewhere else
  • Squad Amos Mohammed finally opens his account
32 Edition

The WAFA Post

8 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

Isaac Afful has until the next board meeting

What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at WAFA can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.

Market

Nana Inusah 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.

Squad

Andre Asante stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Andre Asante and WAFA agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Words at WAFA training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nana Inusah 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.

Squad

a squad player 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 WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Aminu Okocha answers Berekum Chelsea immediately

Conceding is one thing; the response is what tells you about a dressing room. Aminu Okocha had WAFA level again within 4 minutes, and Berekum Chelsea never got to play with a lead at all.

Looking ahead

Everything rides on Heart of Lions

Both clubs in the mire, one fixture between them, and a ground that will be louder and more frightened than at any point in the season. WAFA know what is at stake and so does everybody in the away end.

Player ratings

Aminu Okocha 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.

Match

WAFA and Berekum Chelsea take a point apiece

It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

In brief

31 Edition

The WAFA Post

1 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces

Anger at WAFA spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Match

At last: WAFA win one

16 matches without a win, and then this, against New Edubiase United. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.

Boardroom

The silence upstairs is getting loud at WAFA

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Match

Every point is an argument now for WAFA

Position 14 and 15 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Match

WAFA strike at the death to beat New Edubiase United

There were 88 minutes on the clock and New Edubiase United had all but banked the point. Football rarely reads the room, and WAFA did not stop to explain themselves.

Player ratings

Jonathan Paintsil was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 28. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

The dugout

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Market

Abdul Mensah is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at WAFA is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Market

Baba Asamoah 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 WAFA, and it is not being withdrawn.

In brief

30 Edition

The WAFA Post

22 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

The wait goes on for WAFA

16 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Market

a squad player 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Jonathan Paintsil

Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Words exchanged at WAFA

a squad player 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 ratings

A defender's afternoon for a squad player

Defensive actions: 15. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

The dugout

Isaac Afful on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Isaac Afful after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

Boardroom

$6.0K lands at WAFA thanks to Amos Inusah

A clause somebody insisted on years ago, in a negotiation nobody remembers, has just paid WAFA $6.0K. Amos Inusah left a long time ago; the paperwork stayed.

The dugout

Nana Inusah 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 Nana Inusah trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Squad

Baba Asamoah 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.

In brief

28 Edition

The WAFA Post

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The wait goes on for WAFA

14 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Market

Nana Inusah asks to leave WAFA

“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.

Match

WAFA leaking at the back

5 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.

Player ratings

Aminu Okocha beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

Nana Inusah 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.

Squad

a squad player 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 WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

WAFA come up short against Asante Kotoko

Asante Kotoko left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

No hiding place for Kwame Kyereh

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Kwame Kyereh, and the manager let it.

The dugout

Isaac Afful: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

In brief

27 Edition

The WAFA Post

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

No end in sight to WAFA's wait for a win

13 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at WAFA has to find a result from somewhere.

The terraces

The mood at WAFA has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Match

WAFA sink to position 15

11 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Match

Chastening afternoon for WAFA

A 0‑3 beating by Liberty Professionals was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Squad

Abeiku Partey stands alone

8 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Boardroom

The scrutiny sharpens at WAFA

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at WAFA is running low.

The dugout

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Market

Abdul Mensah has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around WAFA they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Boardroom

Deadline passes with 0 signed and 0 gone

That is the business done at WAFA until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

In brief

  • Match No clean sheets in sight for WAFA
  • Squad Felix Boateng falls out with a teammate over standards
  • Squad Tempers go at WAFA
26 Edition

The WAFA Post

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The wait goes on for WAFA

12 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Market

a squad player 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 WAFA, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout

Baba Sulemana: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” WAFA have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Andre Asante yet — 7.82

At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.82 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Player ratings

Aminu Okocha runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

WAFA come up short against Great Olympics

Great Olympics left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Words at WAFA training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nana Inusah 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.

Squad

Words exchanged at WAFA

a squad player 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 dugout

Isaac Afful faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Isaac Afful after 1‑3, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

In brief

24 Edition

The WAFA Post

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The wait goes on for WAFA

10 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Market

Nana Inusah asks to leave WAFA

“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.

Market

AS Police 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.

Player ratings

Jonathan Paintsil was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 23. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Market

Inter Allies join the queue for Abdul Mensah

Add another name to the list: Inter Allies have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Abdul Mensah. The answer from WAFA has not changed — yet.

Match

Aduana Stars take the points off WAFA

Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

a squad player 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 WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A muscle injury and 14 days out for Kamaldeen Waris

The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. WAFA will quote 14 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.

The dugout

Abeiku Partey gets it from the manager

“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.

In brief

  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • Looking ahead The leaders are next for WAFA
  • Squad Jonathan Atiemo falls out with a teammate over standards
22 Edition

The WAFA Post

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

8 matches without a win for WAFA

The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around WAFA are no longer polite ones.

Market

a squad player 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 WAFA, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Words exchanged at WAFA

a squad player 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.

Squad

A row about effort at WAFA

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nana Inusah was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Looking ahead

A six-pointer for WAFA

BA All Stars next, and both sides can do the sum. Win and the table looks different; lose and it looks the way everybody has been fearing.

Player ratings

Aminu Okocha beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 16. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Match

Honours even between WAFA and Medeama

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 dugout

Isaac Afful on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Isaac Afful after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

The dugout

Nana Inusah 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 Nana Inusah trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

21 Edition

The WAFA Post

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Osman Mohammed asks to leave WAFA

“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.

Match

The wait goes on for WAFA

7 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

Mohammed Schlupp stands alone

6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Match

The goals have deserted WAFA

3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at WAFA can tell you which week it ends in.

Squad

A falling-out at WAFA

a squad player and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

Ashanti Gold take the points off WAFA

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout

Nana Inusah gets it from the manager

“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.

Squad

Kwame Kyereh 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 dugout

Isaac Afful faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Isaac Afful after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

In brief

20 Edition

The WAFA Post

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

WAFA taken apart

0‑3 to Hearts of Oak, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Match

6 matches without a win for WAFA

The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around WAFA are no longer polite ones.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Abeiku Partey

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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Aminu Okocha

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

A row about effort at WAFA

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nana Inusah was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

a squad player 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 WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

No hiding place for Abeiku Partey

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Abeiku Partey, and the manager let it.

Match

Halfway: WAFA sit in position 15

9 points at the turn. The first half of a season is a promise; the second is a bill, and the town is about to find out which of the two this one was.

Boardroom

Doors closed at WAFA

The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.

In brief

  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • The dugout Abdul Mensah has become a man the manager trusts
  • The dugout The plan did not have a place for Baba Sulemana
18 Edition

The WAFA Post

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Nana Inusah 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 WAFA, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match

No end in sight to WAFA's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at WAFA has to find a result from somewhere.

Match

Heart of Lions take the points off WAFA

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Words exchanged at WAFA

a squad player 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 ratings

Andre Asante was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 19. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Isaac Afful to a room that had heard them before.

Squad

Kwame Kyereh 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 dugout

Kwame Kyereh gets it from the manager

“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.

Squad

A ban for Nana Inusah

One booking too many, and a game watched from the stand. WAFA lose him for the most avoidable reason in the sport.

In brief

17 Edition

The WAFA Post

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Jonathan Paintsil 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.

Market

a squad player 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 WAFA, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout

Christian Addo: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” WAFA have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Nana Inusah 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.

Squad

A falling-out at WAFA

a squad player and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

WAFA rescue it on 93 minutes

Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 93. Berekum Chelsea had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.

Match

Honours even between WAFA and Berekum Chelsea

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 dugout

The manager makes an example of Kamaldeen Waris

“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.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Isaac Afful was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the WAFA dressing room was either.

In brief

14 Edition

The WAFA Post

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Nana Inusah asks to leave WAFA

“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.

Player ratings

Andre Asante, 34, rolls back the years — 8.33

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.33 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Player ratings

Jonathan Paintsil runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

At last: WAFA win one

6 matches without a win, and then this, against Bechem United. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.

Squad

Andre Asante signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Andre Asante commits to WAFA for another 3 years.

Squad

Nana Inusah 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.

Match

Andre Asante the difference as WAFA beat Bechem United

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Andre Asante. 2‑1 against Bechem United, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad

Words exchanged at WAFA

a squad player 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 terraces

The crowd has taken to Abdul Mensah

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

In brief

  • Squad Baba Sulemana slips down the pecking order
  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • The dugout Edmund Owusu gets it from the manager
13 Edition

The WAFA Post

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Chastening afternoon for WAFA

A 0‑3 beating by Asante Kotoko was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Market

Kamaldeen Waris 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 WAFA, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match

The wait goes on for WAFA

6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

Nana Inusah 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.

Squad

A falling-out at WAFA

a squad player and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Kamaldeen Bukari

“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.

Boardroom

Doors closed at WAFA

The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.

The dugout

Isaac Afful: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Jonathan Paintsil

Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

12 Edition

The WAFA Post

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Abeiku Partey stands alone

13 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Match

No end in sight to WAFA's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at WAFA has to find a result from somewhere.

Player ratings

Andre Asante runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

The step up is real for Samba Dembele

At 17 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Match

WAFA come up short against Liberty Professionals

Liberty Professionals left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

a squad player 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 WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at WAFA

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Kwame Kyereh was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

Baba Sulemana gets it from the manager

“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 dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑3 defeat, delivered by Isaac Afful to a room that had heard them before.

In brief

11 Edition

The WAFA Post

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

WAFA bow out of the cup

Medeama go through and WAFA go home, 1‑3 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Player ratings

Aminu Okocha was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 26. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Match

4 matches without a win for WAFA

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around WAFA are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Mohammed Boateng is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

Nana Inusah 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.

Squad

Tempers go at WAFA

a squad player 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Andre Asante

“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.

Match

A bad afternoon for WAFA against Great Olympics

0‑1 to Great Olympics, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Isaac Afful to a room that had heard them before.

In brief

10 Edition

The WAFA Post

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

WAFA taken apart

2‑5 to Wa All Stars, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Market

Nana Inusah asks to leave WAFA

“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.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Abeiku Partey

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.

Match

Nobody could stop scoring

7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about WAFA and Wa All Stars in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

Squad

Baba Sulemana signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Baba Sulemana and WAFA agree another 1 years.

Squad

Nana Inusah 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.

Squad

Words exchanged at WAFA

a squad player 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 dugout

Nana Inusah gets it from the manager

“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.

Boardroom

Nobody left the WAFA dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

In brief

8 Edition

The WAFA Post

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

a squad player 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 WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at WAFA

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nana Inusah was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

Andre Asante sends WAFA past BA All Stars

It finished 1‑0, and it was Andre Asante’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to WAFA.

Player ratings

Andre Asante was the difference for WAFA

Marked 7.74. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

The dugout

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.” Isaac Afful kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.

The dugout

Nana Inusah 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 Nana Inusah trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Squad

Andre Asante scores his first for WAFA

The one goal every signing is asked about until it comes. It has come, and a press-conference question has been retired.

Squad

A first senior shirt for Gladson Gyan

Every debut is a small story about the future: Gladson Gyan, 18 years old, off the academy pitches and into the first team. The parents in the stand will keep the programme.

Market

The shop window has a squad player in it

WAFA have let the market know a squad player can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

In brief

7 Edition

The WAFA Post

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Aminu Okocha beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 28. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Abeiku Partey

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.

Market

Abdul Wakaso 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.

Squad

Mohammed Boateng is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

Nana Inusah 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.

Squad

Tempers go at WAFA

a squad player 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.

Match

WAFA come up short against Medeama

Medeama left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

Isaac Afful answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

The dugout

Edmund Owusu gets it from the manager

“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.

In brief

6 Edition

The WAFA Post

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

A hiding for WAFA

Beaten 1‑4 by Ashanti Gold, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Market

Kamaldeen Waris asks to leave WAFA

“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.

Squad

Abeiku Partey keeps WAFA in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Boardroom

Window shuts: 5 in, 1 out at WAFA

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 5 arrived, 1 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Boardroom

Graduation day at WAFA

5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Squad

Words exchanged at WAFA

a squad player 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.

Market

Emmanuel Baba steps up from the WAFA academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Emmanuel Baba has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

Daniel Bukari steps up from the WAFA academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Daniel Bukari has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

WAFA promote Nana Acquah from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Nana Acquah has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

In brief

  • The dugout The manager makes an example of Nana Inusah
  • Squad Kwame Kyereh falls out with a teammate over standards
  • Boardroom Doors closed at WAFA
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The WAFA Post

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

WAFA say no — this time

The offer from Ashanti Gold for Amos Inusah 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.

Market

Abdul Mensah 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 WAFA, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

A row about effort at WAFA

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nana Inusah was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

In brief

3 Edition

The WAFA Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

WAFA turn down Hearts of Oak for Aminu Okocha

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Tempers go at WAFA

a squad player 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.

Squad

Words at WAFA training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kwame Kyereh 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.

Squad

Abraham Annan signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Abraham Annan and WAFA agree another 3 years.

The dugout

Edmund Owusu gets it from the manager

“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.

Market

WAFA put Amos Appiah up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Amos Appiah may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

In brief