Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Abhishek Deo is a Rewa player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Rewa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Jonathan Mohammed is living that version at Rewa, and it tends to show in the first month.
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.
The words a physio says slowly. 46 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
The name of Baba Addo has come up in conversations Wa All Stars were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 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.
Youssef Ahmed Hassan 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.
At 26 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
“I did not go to BA All Stars to sit and watch. I want to come back to Wa All Stars and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
The terraces16 Aug 2027
Supporters make their feelings known about Baba Addo
The speculation has reached the stands, and the stands have answered. Wa All Stars would like this settled before it becomes the only thing anybody asks about.
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Jonathan Mohammed leaves Wa All Stars the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Mohammed Mohammed leaves Wa All Stars the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.