Marked for Osman Adjei
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 36. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match20 Feb 2027
Chastening afternoon for WAFA
A 0‑3 beating by Inter Allies was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Market22 Feb 2027
“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.
Match20 Feb 2027
The wait goes on for WAFA
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad22 Feb 2027
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.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Kwame Kudus 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 dugout22 Feb 2027
Osman Adjei 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.
Boardroom22 Feb 2027
Nobody left the WAFA dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Loan watch22 Feb 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at WAFA, and 6 appearances in 24 say he has earned the hearing.
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Steady
Market18 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 The request is on a desk at WAFA, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Ernest Kyereh is in the form of his life
A season average of 7.36 with 18 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad18 Jan 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Isaac Atiemo commits to WAFA for another 4 years.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Tempers go at WAFA
Edmund Wakaso 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words at WAFA training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kwame Kudus 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 ratings18 Jan 2027
A performance of 8.02 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Osman Adjei, and the manager let it.
Loan watch18 Jan 2027
“I watch every WAFA game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Inter Allies runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
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Steady
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.30, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Match9 Jan 2027
WAFA are shipping goals every week
Two or more conceded in each of the last 8 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Defences have started doubling up on Ernest Kyereh
17 goals and a season average of 7.34 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at WAFA
Edmund Wakaso 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.
Match9 Jan 2027
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about WAFA and Aduana Stars in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Match9 Jan 2027
Three points for WAFA, 4‑2 the final word against Aduana Stars in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A row about effort at WAFA
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Kwame Kudus was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
WAFA asked and Medeama 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 terraces11 Jan 2027
The crowd has taken to Osman Adjei
At 22 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.
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Uneasy
Squad4 Jan 2027
4 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Market4 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 WAFA, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match2 Jan 2027
No clean sheets in sight for WAFA
7 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Defences have started doubling up on Ernest Kyereh
16 goals and a season average of 7.30 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Match2 Jan 2027
Three points for WAFA, 5‑3 the final word against BA All Stars in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
A performance of 10.00 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad4 Jan 2027
A falling-out at WAFA
Edmund Wakaso and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad4 Jan 2027
The medical room confirms 37 days on the sidelines for Kwadwo Amoah, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Match2 Jan 2027
Ernest Kyereh among the goals in a wild afternoon
8 goals in one match, Ernest Kyereh on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of WAFA and BA All Stars.
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Uneasy
Match17 Oct 2026
WAFA throw away a 2-goal lead
2 in front and in complete control, and it finished with Liberty Professionals the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that WAFA will enjoy reviewing.
Market19 Oct 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
WAFA are shipping goals every week
Two or more conceded in each of the last 7 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
Match17 Oct 2026
No end in sight to WAFA's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at WAFA has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at WAFA
Edmund Wakaso 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
Kwame Kudus 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
David Essien was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.07. 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 ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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Squad
The first one for Amos Mensah
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Player ratings
The one thing Nana Asante could not do
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Crisis
Squad5 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at WAFA training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kwame Kudus 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
WAFA leaking at the back
4 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
Match3 Oct 2026
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Kamaldeen Addo commits to WAFA for another 1 years.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Osman Adjei, and the manager let it.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
7 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.
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Steady
Market31 Aug 2026
WAFA say no — this time
The offer from Asante Kotoko for Abraham Ayew 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.
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.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
The paperwork begins on Emre Tezgel
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. WAFA have done the hard part with Stoke City, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
In brief
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Squad
A falling-out at WAFA
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The dugout
The manager makes an example of Ernest Kyereh
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Looking ahead
WAFA take on the side everybody is chasing
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The dugout
The manager comes out for Nana Asante
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Steady
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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Osman Adjei 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
No thanks: Andre Essien rejects the move
WAFA had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Hasaacas, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at WAFA
Edmund Wakaso 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Kwame Kudus 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.
Transfer targets24 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 targets24 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to Stoke City: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“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
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Isaac Acquah has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at WAFA.