Patrick Partey

Right Back - Free Agent
15 Mar 2030
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179 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

31 Dec 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Christian Addo, 35, rolls back the years — 8.68

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.68 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Market

Patrick Partey puts it in writing

“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 The request is on a desk at Wa All Stars, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Emmanuel Kudus is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.37 with 15 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Squad

Words exchanged at Wa All Stars

Afriyie Djiku 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.

Match

Friday Ubong sends Wa All Stars past New Edubiase United

It finished 3‑1, and it was Friday Ubong’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Wa All Stars.

Player ratings

Emmanuel Kudus was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.86. 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.

Player ratings

Friday Ubong in the eights

A performance of 8.15 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings

Afriyie Djiku in the eights

A performance of 8.11 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad

Igbunu Evwierhurhoma reaches 100 appearances

100 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.

In brief

Back issues
168 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

15 Oct 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A falling-out at Wa All Stars

Afriyie Djiku and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Bina Tombiri

“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 dugout

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Market

Talks stall between Wa All Stars and Jabbar Malik

“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 dugout

The manager has not finished forgetting a squad player's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

The dugout

Wa All Stars keep their word to Igbunu Evwierhurhoma

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

Looking ahead

A reunion for Yussif Mubarik

He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Medeama in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.

Market

The Friday Ubong story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Friday Ubong signs something — a contract at Wa All Stars or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

Market

Igbunu Evwierhurhoma runs his contract down

3 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Wa All Stars money.

In brief

120 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

13 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

61 days out for Bernard Schlupp after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Wa All Stars will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Friday Ubong

Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The dugout

Gladson Acquah says Wa All Stars went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Words exchanged at Wa All Stars

Afriyie Djiku 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 dugout

Igbunu Evwierhurhoma 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.

The dugout

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Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Afriyie Djiku at his very best

Marked 8.15. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Wa All Stars.

Match

Honours even between Wa All Stars and Ashanti Gold

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

The dugout

Abraham Addo has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Wa All Stars will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief