Marked for Mohammed Mohammed
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market9 Aug 2027
The name of Ernest Kyereh has come up in conversations WAFA were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad9 Aug 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ebenezer Shamo commits to WAFA for another 3 years.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Mohammed Mohammed is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad9 Aug 2027
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.
Squad9 Aug 2027
“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.
Market9 Aug 2027
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. WAFA will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market21 Jun 2027
$410.0K from Asante Kotoko for Daniel Asante. Money is money, but the dressing room has lost the man it looked to.
Market21 Jun 2027
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.
The terraces21 Jun 2027
WAFA sell a favourite for $410.0K
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Daniel Asante was one of the reasons people came, and $410.0K does not replace that by itself.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Tempers go at WAFA
Ernest Kyereh 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.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Bian Abu Raya gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Bian Abu Raya has just signed for WAFA, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad21 Jun 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Mohammed Mohammed and WAFA agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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Upbeat
Match26 Sep 2026
5‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Squad28 Sep 2026
The match ball belongs to Kamaldeen Kudus, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Up for the corner, and Daniel Asante delivers — 7.37
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Daniel Asante scored, was marked 7.37, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad28 Sep 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Mohammed Mohammed is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Marked 9.80 — 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 ratings28 Sep 2026
A performance of 9.11 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
The terraces28 Sep 2026
At 22 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.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
No sign of nerves from Ernest Kyereh at 20 — 8.20
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Ernest Kyereh did not need any: 8.20, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Market14 Sep 2026
Joseph Boakye 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.
Squad14 Sep 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
WAFA get the job done against Medeama
A 3‑1 win over Medeama, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The terraces14 Sep 2026
At 20 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Marked 8.49 — 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 ratings14 Sep 2026
Jeffrey Partey was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.30. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Market14 Sep 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at WAFA training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mohammed Mohammed 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
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The pass was always on for Patrick Waris
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Squad
Abraham Addo left out for tactical reasons at WAFA
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market24 Aug 2026
WAFA say no — this time
The offer from Hasaacas for Ernest Kyereh 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.
Market24 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at WAFA
Ernest Kyereh 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
37 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Mohammed Mohammed 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” David Baba commits to WAFA for another 3 years.