Abdul Schlupp

Central Defender - Liberty Professionals
25 Sep 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Abdul Schlupp

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The Liberty Professionals Chronicle

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Mustafa Yahaya 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.

The terraces

One of their own: Albert Waris

He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Match

Albert Waris sends Liberty Professionals past Heart of Lions

It finished 1‑0, and it was Albert Waris’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Liberty Professionals.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Albert Waris

A mark of 7.88, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

Squad

A row about effort at Liberty Professionals

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Christian Appiah was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Daniel Mensah kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.

The dugout

Liberty Professionals pick somebody else ahead of Abdul Schlupp

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

Squad

Albert Waris scores his first for Liberty Professionals

The one goal every signing is asked about until it comes. It has come, and a press-conference question has been retired.

The dugout

No hiding place for Andre Acquah

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Andre Acquah, and the manager let it.

In brief

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The Liberty Professionals Chronicle

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

15 saves: David Schlupp was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 15 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Transfer targets

Francis Acquah stays at Asante Kotoko as time runs out

A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Liberty Professionals will try again when the window opens; Asante Kotoko may not be selling by then.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to David Schlupp

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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Liberty Professionals against New Edubiase United

0‑2 to New Edubiase United, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout

Daniel Mensah: “No excuses”

“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.

Squad

Words at Liberty Professionals training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abraham 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.

Squad

Albert Inusah stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Albert Inusah and Liberty Professionals agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Christian Appiah

“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.

The dugout

Liberty Professionals pick somebody else ahead of Bernard Nuhu

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

In brief