Marked for Thomas Asante
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 40. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market7 Sep 2026
“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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Raymond Agyemang is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Thomas Asante 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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
3 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Abdul Ayew 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Samuel Atiemo is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market7 Sep 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Patrick Mensah 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Daouda Sidibé 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.
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Steady
Market31 Aug 2026
$760.0K. No player has ever cost Aduana Stars more, and expectation arrives with him.
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 Aduana Stars can pretend not to have heard.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Isaac Hemans 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 terraces31 Aug 2026
Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Thomas Asante from WAFA for $760.0K, and a ticket office having a very good morning.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Samuel Kuffour 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
This league is too small for Thomas Asante
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Aduana Stars will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
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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
Aduana Stars pay $760.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at WAFA training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Amos Gyan 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jeffrey Gyan commits to WAFA for another 3 years.
Market31 Aug 2026
Everyone has stopped pretending: Heart of Lions will make the call about Jeffrey Kyereh this week. WAFA have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
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Steady
Market10 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Osman Addo and WAFA agree another 2 years.
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Steady
Market3 Aug 2026
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.
Market3 Aug 2026
The name of Thomas Asante has come up in conversations WAFA were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at WAFA
Ernest Sulemana 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.