Marked for Kamaldeen Appiah
From our football correspondent
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
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at BA All Stars this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market31 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: WAFA have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Gladson Asamoah. The answer from BA All Stars has not changed — yet.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market17 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
The bid was some way short and BA All Stars did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Andrew Paintsil 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.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
BA All Stars spend $18.0K on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $18.0K for Andre Owusu, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Albert Inusah 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
The offer from Berekum Chelsea for Andrew Paintsil 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Siyabonga Ngcobo has just signed for BA All Stars, and for once the answer mattered.
Market10 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what BA All Stars can pretend not to have heard.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Andrew Paintsil commits to BA All Stars for another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Andrew Paintsil 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Jonathan Djiku
“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.