Andre Asante

Left Midfielder - Wa All Stars
13 Jan 2028
Thursday
Process

Marked for Andre Asante

76 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

10 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Mohammed Djiku

Successful dribbles: 44. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Baba Atiemo damages knee ligaments — 38 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 38 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.

Match

The wait goes on for Wa All Stars

5 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

Junaid Sait 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 Wa All Stars this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Edmund Asamoah signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Edmund Asamoah and Wa All Stars agree another 4 years.

Match

Hearts of Oak take the points off Wa All Stars

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

Player ratings

A masterclass from Joseph Wakaso

Marked 8.11 — 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.

Squad

Abraham Afful 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

The Andre Asante conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: BA All Stars will make the call about Andre Asante this week. Wa All Stars have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

In brief

Back issues
75 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

3 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Mohammed Djiku

Successful dribbles: 57. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Baba Atiemo

45 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Wa All Stars lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

Felix Mohammed decides it from twelve yards

2 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.

Match

Wa All Stars through in the cup

A 1‑1 win over Asante Kotoko, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Market

Ernest 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 Wa All Stars can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Wa All Stars turn down Aduana Stars for Ernest Appiah

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

Squad

Remember the name: Andre Asante

He is 19, he is averaging 6.62, and older professionals have started passing to him in the difficult minutes. That last part is the real scouting report.

Squad

Gladson Paintsil is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.36 with 19 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Match

The wait goes on for Wa All Stars

4 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.

In brief