Marked for Kwame Addo
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad26 Oct 2026
A row about effort at WAFA
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Emmanuel Adjei was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The terraces26 Oct 2026
WAFA supporters have found a favourite in Albert Djiku
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Albert Djiku 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
Three points for WAFA, 1‑0 the final word against Great Olympics in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.07, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Francis Acquah
“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 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.” David Asante kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
Market26 Oct 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Bernard Baba has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at WAFA.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Kwame Addo 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.
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Uneasy
Match14 Oct 2026
WAFA bow out of the cup
Medeama go through and WAFA go home, 1‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” WAFA may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at WAFA training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Emmanuel Adjei 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at WAFA
Kwame 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
At last: WAFA win one
5 matches without a win, and then this, against Wa All Stars. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.
Match17 Oct 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Kwame Schlupp. 1‑0 against Wa All Stars, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Kwame Ayew
“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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Everybody saw it before anybody said it. At 35 the numbers say 3 points down on what he was, and the question for WAFA is how to handle a man they owe a great deal.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
17 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
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Uneasy
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Francis Acquah: 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Andrew Gyan commits to WAFA for another 4 years.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Tempers go at WAFA
Emmanuel 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
At 26 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 4 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
The dugout12 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Daniel Adjei 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
The penny has dropped for Kwame Addo
He looks like a man who lives here now rather than one who is working here. It took most of a season, and at WAFA the difference is visible from the back of the stand.
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Uneasy
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at WAFA
David Essien 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 terraces21 Sep 2026
He is 22 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 dugout21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Emmanuel Adjei, and the manager let it.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Marked 8.28 — 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 ratings21 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.25 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match19 Sep 2026
WAFA hit back inside 3 minutes
Medeama held the lead for 3 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
WAFA share the spoils with Medeama
A 2‑2 draw with Medeama leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. 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.
Market21 Sep 2026
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Albert Djiku may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
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Crisis
Market14 Sep 2026
Bernard Baba 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 ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A row about effort at WAFA
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Emmanuel Adjei was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match12 Sep 2026
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Kwame Ayew 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Andrew Schlupp has improved at 26, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
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 0‑2 defeat, delivered by David Asante to a room that had heard them before.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Kwame Partey commits to WAFA for another 3 years.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Kwame Addo makes his debut at 19
At 19 years old, Kwame Addo became the latest name off the academy production line to be handed a senior shirt.
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Steady
Market31 Aug 2026
“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.
Market31 Aug 2026
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Patrick Asamoah had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Market31 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Bechem United waiting with a shirt. Nobody at WAFA is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
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Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market17 Aug 2026
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Daniel Adjei had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A falling-out at WAFA
David Essien and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Abeiku Kyereh
“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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Bernard 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Nana Wakaso and WAFA agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Somebody is after Andrew Gyan’s shirt
A new face in his position, and Andrew Gyan suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. WAFA have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
Market17 Aug 2026
WAFA have made Joseph Asamoah available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
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Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
The bid was some way short and BA All Stars did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market10 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. BA All Stars have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Andrew Djiku and BA All Stars agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Chinedu Chukwu 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
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. WAFA have kept their man, and BA All Stars go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Salim Adams was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Amos Schlupp, and the manager let it.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
Market10 Aug 2026
“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.
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Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
Hasaacas 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.” Albert Djiku commits to WAFA for another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at WAFA
David Essien 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Isaac Ayew 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to BA All Stars: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
Albert Djiku 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 Albert Djiku trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
Amos Schlupp 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Northampton Town have kept their man, and BA All Stars go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at BA All Stars training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Francis Owusu 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to Aduana Stars: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan move for Isaac Frimpong is in the works
BA All Stars have made the call to Hearts of Oak. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
Andrew Djiku 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 BA All Stars, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market3 Aug 2026
Albert Amoah is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at BA All Stars has been clear about where Albert Amoah stands, which is more than many ever get.
Squad3 Aug 2026
The captaincy goes to Amos Schlupp. It is not a job that wins matches, but a dressing room always notices who is given it.