Marked for Jonathan Atiemo
From our football correspondent
Steady
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.99, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad28 Sep 2026
At 21 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Market28 Sep 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at WAFA is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Boardroom28 Sep 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Mohammed Wakaso has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Harrison Adjei has improved at 24, 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A row about effort at WAFA
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Eugene Amankwah was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match26 Sep 2026
Level with 90 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon WAFA had all but put away. Aduana Stars will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Salim Uzair Baafada, and the manager let it.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Nana Gyan runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Steady
Match19 Sep 2026
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against BA All Stars, and it could have been more.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.44, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Jonathan Atiemo, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.91
A mark of 7.91 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 12 actions, 7.68, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.
Squad21 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.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
At 21 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.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Eugene Amankwah, and the manager let it.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Ernest Baba on a 3‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Harrison 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.
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Crisis
Match12 Sep 2026
WAFA taken apart
1‑4 to Medeama, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Jonathan Atiemo, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.61
A mark of 7.61 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Tempers go at WAFA
Eugene Amankwah 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.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
Doors closed at WAFA
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
Market14 Sep 2026
WAFA and Ahmad Nafiu are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑4 defeat, delivered by Ernest Baba to a room that had heard them before.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Isaac Baba runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at WAFA training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jonathan Kyereh 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Beaten 4 times, 4 saves, and an afternoon that will go on his record whether it was his fault or the defence’s. It is the quiet unfairness of the position.
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Crisis
Squad7 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 13 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match5 Sep 2026
A hiding for WAFA
Beaten 0‑3 by Ashanti Gold, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Market7 Sep 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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 8 in, 2 out at WAFA
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 8 arrived, 2 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Graduation day at WAFA
5 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at WAFA
Eugene Amankwah 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Afriyie Acquah 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
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Gladson Ofori 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
One of our own: Osman Mensah joins the WAFA first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Osman Mensah is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
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Boardroom
Doors closed at WAFA
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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Squad
Jonathan Atiemo slips down the pecking order
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Steady
Market24 Aug 2026
WAFA say no — this time
The offer from Medeama for Mohammed Wakaso 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
“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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A falling-out at WAFA
Jonathan Atiemo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market24 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Asante Kotoko have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Edmund Kyereh. The answer from WAFA has not changed — yet.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at WAFA training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jonathan Kyereh 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Hearts of Oak have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Harrison Nuhu
“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.
Market24 Aug 2026
The shop window has Thomas Amoah in it
WAFA have let the market know Thomas Amoah can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
Albert Essien knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at WAFA, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Steady
Market17 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Eugene Amankwah arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Eugene Amankwah has, at WAFA, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at WAFA
Jonathan Atiemo 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Eugene Amankwah commits to WAFA for another 4 years.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. BA All Stars have kept their man, and WAFA go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market17 Aug 2026
Andre Baba has left for Hearts of Oak in a $22.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Jonathan Kyereh 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.
Market17 Aug 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.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Edmund Kyereh, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Jonathan Atiemo again, and this time the name on the line is Asante Kotoko. WAFA are listening politely and promising nothing.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Bechem United is saying, and nobody at WAFA is enjoying the guessing.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jonathan Atiemo commits to WAFA for another 4 years.
Squad10 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
WAFA asked and Hasaacas said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Isaac Baba
“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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Edmund Kyereh 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. WAFA will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
Jonathan Kyereh asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at WAFA
Jonathan Atiemo 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Harrison Mohammed commits to WAFA for another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Jonathan Kyereh 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Thomas Asamoah again, and this time the name on the line is Inter Allies. WAFA are listening politely and promising nothing.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at WAFA, another week without a signature from Mohammed Wakaso.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to Bechem United: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.