Marked for Edmund Annan
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market25 Jan 2027
“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 The request is on a desk at Wa All Stars, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market25 Jan 2027
Only the photograph left for Edmund Annan
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Edmund Annan will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Wa All Stars the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match23 Jan 2027
4 matches without a win for Wa All Stars
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Wa All Stars are no longer polite ones.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Elvis Manu 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.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
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.
Match23 Jan 2027
1‑2 to Medeama, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
A performance of 8.04 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jonathan Asamoah, and the manager let it.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Amos Inusah after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
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Steady
Market11 Jan 2027
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Wa All Stars people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Everything was agreed with Hearts of Oak and then the doctor spoke. Wa All Stars have walked away from a signing on the advice of somebody who never saw him play, which is how it is supposed to work.
Squad11 Jan 2027
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.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 22. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Elvis Manu and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. WAFA have kept their man, and Wa All Stars go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match9 Jan 2027
Hearts of Oak left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout11 Jan 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
Add another name to the list: Bechem United have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Afriyie Kudus. The answer from Wa All Stars has not changed — yet.
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Steady
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 41. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match12 Dec 2026
Whatever happens, Wa All Stars do not lose
7 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Elvis Manu and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Felix Appiah is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Match12 Dec 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Joseph Afful’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Wa All Stars.
Match14 Dec 2026
Halfway: Wa All Stars sit in position 10
17 points at the turn. The first half of a season is a promise; the second is a bill, and the town is about to find out which of the two this one was.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Marked 7.86. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Amos Inusah, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Francis Nuhu, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Match7 Nov 2026
No end in sight to Wa All Stars's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Wa All Stars has to find a result from somewhere.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Rivio Ayemwenre and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Rivio Ayemwenre
“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.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
A mark of 7.30, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Amos Inusah after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
Match7 Nov 2026
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Great Olympics defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Somebody else is better right now than Andrew Schlupp
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say a squad player is on it.
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Uneasy
Match2 Nov 2026
7 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market2 Nov 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 Wa All Stars, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match31 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Wa All Stars's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Wa All Stars has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Elvis Manu 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.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Market2 Nov 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 dugout2 Nov 2026
Half-satisfied: Amos Inusah on the draw
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Rivio Ayemwenre 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at Wa All Stars training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Felix Appiah 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.
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Uneasy
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 29. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad19 Oct 2026
6 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Andrew Mohammed is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Elvis Manu and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“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.
Match17 Oct 2026
It needed Ernest Mohammed to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against BA All Stars, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Amos Inusah after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Steady
Market31 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.
Squad31 Aug 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Elvis Manu in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Wa All Stars this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A muscle injury and 15 days out for Edmund Annan
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Wa All Stars will quote 15 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Remo Stars have kept their man, and Wa All Stars go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market31 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: OFK Beograd have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Andrew Schlupp. The answer from Wa All Stars has not changed — yet.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Felix Appiah was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Rivers United 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.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Plateau United 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.