Marked for Thomas Afful
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad23 Nov 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 86 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market23 Nov 2026
Emmanuel Addo has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around WAFA they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Defences have started doubling up on Emmanuel Addo
14 goals and a season average of 7.52 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Match21 Nov 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Emmanuel Addo. 5‑3 against Berekum Chelsea, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at WAFA
Emmanuel Addo 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.
Match21 Nov 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 8 goals between WAFA and Berekum Chelsea, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Abdul Sulemana 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.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Marked 8.58 — 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.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Thomas Afful, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Match7 Nov 2026
4‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.36, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad9 Nov 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Defences have started doubling up on Emmanuel Addo
11 goals and a season average of 7.39 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Thomas Afful 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.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Ninety minutes of Felix Partey at his very best
Marked 8.52. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at WAFA.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Marked 8.44 — 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 ratings9 Nov 2026
Marked 8.13 — 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.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 4‑0, already talking about the next one.
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Steady
Squad26 Oct 2026
A one-man rearguard from Thomas Afful
There were 10 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Two goals and a mark of 9.26 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market26 Oct 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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Felix Partey beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 22. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at WAFA
Emmanuel Addo 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Bernard Kyereh commits to WAFA for another 3 years.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Abdul Sulemana 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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to a squad player, and the manager let it.
Match24 Oct 2026
It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
In brief
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The dugout
Thomas Afful gets picked when it counts
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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Player ratings
Thomas Baba keeps on missing
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Upbeat
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 43. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match17 Oct 2026
Beaten 3‑4, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Match17 Oct 2026
7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about WAFA and Liberty Professionals in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at WAFA
Thomas Afful 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Late improvement for Amos Adjei
At 25 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 3 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” a squad player and WAFA agree another 3 years.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Kwadwo Paintsil 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.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
A performance of 8.36 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.16, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
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Upbeat
Squad12 Oct 2026
Thomas Afful is the hero from the spot
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Thomas Afful: 2 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Match7 Oct 2026
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Gladson Owusu obliged against Medeama. 3‑3 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is WAFA.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 33. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
A brace, and Gladson Owusu takes the afternoon — 8.96
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Gladson Owusu provided it, and the 8.96 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Kwadwo Boakye is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad12 Oct 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.
Match10 Oct 2026
Still nobody has beaten WAFA
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at WAFA training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abdul Sulemana 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.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.60, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
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Triumph
Squad5 Oct 2026
12 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Two goals and a mark of 9.23 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Match3 Oct 2026
There were 85 minutes on the clock and Wa All Stars had all but banked the point. Football rarely reads the room, and WAFA did not stop to explain themselves.
Match3 Oct 2026
Nobody wants to play WAFA right now
4 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
At 20 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A falling-out at WAFA
Emmanuel Addo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match3 Oct 2026
It finished 3‑2, and it was Emmanuel Addo’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to WAFA.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Samba Sissoko and WAFA agree another 1 years.
In brief
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Player ratings
A masterclass from Thomas Baba
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The dugout
No hiding place for Samba Sissoko
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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Upbeat
Squad14 Sep 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 31 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A one-man rearguard from Thomas Afful
There were 10 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market14 Sep 2026
The deal that would have taken Thomas Afful to Hasaacas has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to WAFA with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Daniel Mensah, 18, steals the show — 7.61
Marked 7.61 at 18, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Market14 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Thomas Afful 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Medeama made WAFA work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Marked 8.64 — 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
A performance of 8.24 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
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Crisis
Squad7 Sep 2026
A one-man rearguard from Thomas Afful
There were 12 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Kwadwo Paintsil out for 38 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason WAFA will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market7 Sep 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
So close: Felix Partey’s move dies late
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Medeama moved on, Felix Partey reports back to WAFA, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Market7 Sep 2026
Add another name to the list: Hasaacas have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Thomas Afful. The answer from WAFA has not changed — yet.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 5 in, 1 out at WAFA
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 5 arrived, 1 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Squad7 Sep 2026
At 20 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A falling-out at WAFA
Emmanuel Addo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
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Steady
Squad31 Aug 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 45 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market31 Aug 2026
Felix Partey 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Only the photograph left for Emmanuel Addo
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Emmanuel Addo will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around WAFA the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market31 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Tempers go at WAFA
Thomas Afful 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
The Felix Partey conversation is coming
Everyone has stopped pretending: Medeama will make the call about Felix Partey this week. WAFA have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
In brief
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Squad
Words at WAFA training over how hard people work
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Squad
WAFA lose David Schlupp
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Looking ahead
WAFA take on the side everybody is chasing
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The dugout
The manager plants his flag on Emmanuel Addo
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Steady
Squad24 Aug 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 52 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
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.
Market24 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at WAFA
Emmanuel Addo 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
Felix Partey 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.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Abdul Sulemana, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
66 days out for Kwadwo Paintsil after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. WAFA will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market10 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.
Market10 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Samuel Wakaso pulls a muscle — 14 days out
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 14 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Emmanuel Addo commits to WAFA for another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at WAFA
Emmanuel Addo 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
A loan move for Joseph Amoah is in the works
WAFA have made the call to Asante Kotoko. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Market10 Aug 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” a squad player has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at WAFA.