Daniel Afful

Right Wingback - Al-Shoulla U20
17 Jul 2028
Monday
Process

Marked for Daniel Afful

97 Edition

The Al-Shoulla Chronicle

5 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom

An order from above at Al-Shoulla: somebody has to go

Balance sheets do not care about form or about who the manager was planning to build around. The board have decided a sale is required, and the only question left is which name ends up carrying it.

Squad

Mohammed Abdulrahman 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 Al-Shoulla this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Al-Shoulla lose Ahmed Al-Habib

37 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad

Words at Al-Shoulla training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nidhal Ben Salem 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.

Market

Al-Shoulla buy the years ahead of Mirzo Fayzullaev

He is 18, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

Market

A long bet from Al-Shoulla on Daniel Afful

He is 19, and nobody at Al-Shoulla signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

In brief

Back issues
55 Edition

The Liberty Professionals Chronicle

16 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces

Anger at Liberty Professionals spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Boardroom

The scrutiny sharpens at Liberty Professionals

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Liberty Professionals is running low.

Squad

Real improvement from Joseph Owusu at Liberty Professionals

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Joseph Owusu is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Market

Jonathan Atiemo has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Liberty Professionals they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Kelechi Chimezie 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 Liberty Professionals this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Felix Owusu has improved at 28, 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.

In brief