The BA All Stars Gazette
Match25 Sep 2027
The wait goes on for BA 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.
Player ratings27 Sep 2027
Isaac Boakye 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.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Abeiku Addo has improved at 25, 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.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Kamaldeen Essien 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.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Albert Atiemo 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.
Player ratings27 Sep 2027
Samuel Gyan was the difference for BA All Stars
Marked 7.61. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Squad27 Sep 2027
6 new faces, and BA All Stars are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Match25 Sep 2027
BA All Stars draw a blank against Medeama
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Medeama defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
Market27 Sep 2027
Angelo Vergara joins BA All Stars on a free
No fee and no drama: Angelo Vergara has signed at BA All Stars, and the wage bill is the only line that moved.
In brief
- Market Isaac Afful leaves for nothing
- Market Mohammed Schlupp leaves for nothing