Gladson Afful

Goalkeeper - Wa All Stars
30 Sep 2026
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Gladson Afful

8 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Kutlwano Letlhaku

Successful dribbles: 58. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Abdul Annan damages knee ligaments — 113 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 113 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match

Nowhere to hide for Wa All Stars

1‑5 against Hasaacas, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Squad

Kutlwano Letlhaku 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.

Match

Nobody could stop scoring

6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Wa All Stars and Hasaacas in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

Squad

Mehdi Khallati 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.

Boardroom

Nobody left the Wa All Stars 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 watch

Baba Asamoah wants to come home

“I did not go to Inter Allies to sit and watch. I want to come back to Wa All Stars and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.

Squad

A long afternoon for Gladson Afful

Beaten 5 times, with 4 saves for company. Goalkeepers carry these scorelines on their record whoever actually caused them, which is the quiet injustice of the job.

In brief

Back issues
7 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Abdul Annan damages knee ligaments — 120 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 120 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Player ratings

Daniel Kyereh, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.70

A mark of 7.70 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Market

Abeiku Partey asks to leave Wa All Stars

“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.

Player ratings

Up for the corner, and Abdul Annan delivers — 7.52

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Abdul Annan scored, was marked 7.52, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Market

Ashanti Gold come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Wa All Stars did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Tempers go at Wa All Stars

Kutlwano Letlhaku 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.

Squad

Mohammed Tahiri 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.

Squad

Gladson Afful 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.

Match

No time for Heart of Lions to settle

The goal that put Heart of Lions ahead was still being replayed on the concourse when Wa All Stars equalised, 1 minutes later. Leads are only worth what you do with them.

In brief

2 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Abeiku Partey asks to leave Wa All Stars

“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.

Squad

Ernest Atiemo stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Ernest Atiemo and Wa All Stars agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Ernest Atiemo 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.

Squad

Words at Wa All Stars training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mehdi Khallati 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

Wa All Stars sell Gladson Annan for $11.0K

Gladson Annan has left for Hearts of Oak in a $11.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Squad

Gladson Afful 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.

In brief