Marked for Samuel Sulemana
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
The terraces20 Sep 2032
The mood at WAFA has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Player ratings20 Sep 2032
Successful dribbles: 42. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad20 Sep 2032
Samuel Sulemana damages knee ligaments — 44 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 44 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.
Match18 Sep 2032
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑1 against BA All Stars, and it could have been more.
Player ratings20 Sep 2032
Jonathan Owusu, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 9.61
A mark of 9.61 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad20 Sep 2032
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Player ratings20 Sep 2032
Age has not caught Thomas Gyan yet — 8.19
At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.19 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Market20 Sep 2032
“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 The request is on a desk at WAFA, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market20 Sep 2032
Only the photograph left for Jonathan Amoah
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Jonathan Amoah will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around WAFA the goodbyes have quietly begun.
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Crisis
Match11 Sep 2032
14 matches without a win for WAFA
The run now stands at 14, and the questions being asked around WAFA are no longer polite ones.
Squad13 Sep 2032
Samuel Sulemana damages knee ligaments — 51 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 51 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.
Market13 Sep 2032
“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.
Market13 Sep 2032
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Stephen Eikwu-Ojo will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around WAFA the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad13 Sep 2032
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Vincent Klu Adjeu commits to WAFA for another 3 years.
Match11 Sep 2032
4 matches without a goal for WAFA
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad13 Sep 2032
Tempers go at WAFA
Gladson Kudus 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.
Squad13 Sep 2032
Abdellah Haimoud 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.
Match11 Sep 2032
WAFA come up short against Medeama
Medeama left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
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Crisis
Match4 Sep 2032
13 matches without a win for WAFA
The run now stands at 13, and the questions being asked around WAFA are no longer polite ones.
Squad6 Sep 2032
Samuel Sulemana damages knee ligaments — 58 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 58 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.
Market6 Sep 2032
Only the photograph left for Samuel Amofa
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Samuel Amofa will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around WAFA the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad6 Sep 2032
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.
Boardroom6 Sep 2032
Graduation day at WAFA
10 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad6 Sep 2032
Words at WAFA training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abdellah Haimoud 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.
Match4 Sep 2032
3 matches without a goal for WAFA
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Player ratings6 Sep 2032
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market6 Sep 2032
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Christian Paintsil has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
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Crisis
Squad30 Aug 2032
Samuel Sulemana damages knee ligaments — 65 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 65 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.
Market30 Aug 2032
Albert Ayew 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.
Squad30 Aug 2032
Joseph Asamoah is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad30 Aug 2032
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.
Market30 Aug 2032
The interest is real enough to have reached print. WAFA have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad30 Aug 2032
Words at WAFA training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Zakaria Messibah 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.
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Crisis
The terraces23 Aug 2032
The mood at WAFA has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Squad23 Aug 2032
Samuel Sulemana damages knee ligaments — 72 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 72 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.
Market23 Aug 2032
“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.
Squad23 Aug 2032
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.
Squad23 Aug 2032
Words at WAFA training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abdellah Haimoud 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.
Squad23 Aug 2032
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Andrew Owusu and WAFA agree another 4 years.
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Crisis
Squad16 Aug 2032
Samuel Sulemana damages knee ligaments — 79 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 79 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.
Market16 Aug 2032
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at WAFA is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad16 Aug 2032
Tempers go at WAFA
Gladson Kudus 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.
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Crisis
Squad12 Jul 2032
Zakaria Messibah damages knee ligaments — 42 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 42 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.
Boardroom12 Jul 2032
The scrutiny sharpens at WAFA
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at WAFA is running low.
Market12 Jul 2032
Only the photograph left for Samuel Amofa
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Samuel Amofa will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around WAFA the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad12 Jul 2032
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.
Squad12 Jul 2032
Words at WAFA training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abdellah Haimoud 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.
Squad12 Jul 2032
Gladson Kudus has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at WAFA will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
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Crisis
Squad5 Jul 2032
Samuel Sulemana damages knee ligaments — 121 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 121 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.
Boardroom5 Jul 2032
The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Samuel Asamoah has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.
Boardroom5 Jul 2032
The WAFA board call everybody in
Nothing has been announced and everybody understands what it means. A board that summons the whole football department on a Tuesday morning is a board that has stopped believing the problem will fix itself.
Squad5 Jul 2032
“The easiest signature of my career.” Thomas Gyan and WAFA agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad5 Jul 2032
Tempers go at WAFA
Gladson Kudus 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.
Squad5 Jul 2032
Abdellah Haimoud 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.
Boardroom5 Jul 2032
WAFA sign 8 boys into the academy
None of them will be seen by anybody outside the training ground for three years, most of them will never play a senior match, and one of them might change the club. That is the whole proposition, and it is why academies exist.
Market5 Jul 2032
Everyone has stopped pretending: Ashanti Gold will make the call about Stephen Eikwu-Ojo this week. WAFA have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
Boardroom5 Jul 2032
WAFA pull $3.2M back off the table
The money that was there in the summer is not there now. Nobody upstairs calls this a change of ambition, and everybody downstairs reads it as one.
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Crisis
The terraces28 Jun 2032
The mood at WAFA has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Squad28 Jun 2032
Samuel Sulemana damages knee ligaments — 128 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 128 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.
Market28 Jun 2032
“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.
Squad28 Jun 2032
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.
Squad28 Jun 2032
Zakaria Messibah 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.
Market28 Jun 2032
BA All Stars are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. WAFA will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
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Crisis
Boardroom14 Jun 2032
The scrutiny sharpens at WAFA
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at WAFA is running low.
Squad14 Jun 2032
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad14 Jun 2032
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.
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Crisis
Boardroom17 May 2032
The silence upstairs is getting loud at WAFA
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Squad17 May 2032
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.
Squad17 May 2032
Zakaria Messibah 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.
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Crisis
Boardroom23 Feb 2032
Pressure builds in the WAFA boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Squad23 Feb 2032
Daniel Adjei breaks a bone — 91 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 91 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings23 Feb 2032
Two goals and a mark of 8.56 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Match21 Feb 2032
7 matches without a win for WAFA
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around WAFA are no longer polite ones.
Squad23 Feb 2032
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match21 Feb 2032
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.
Player ratings23 Feb 2032
Age has not caught Abdul Annan yet — 7.80
At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.80 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad23 Feb 2032
Williams Alfaro: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” WAFA have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad23 Feb 2032
Tempers go at WAFA
Gladson Kudus 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.
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Uneasy
The terraces17 Nov 2031
Anger at WAFA 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.
Squad17 Nov 2031
3 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.
Player ratings17 Nov 2031
Samuel Adjei, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 7.97
A mark of 7.97 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Player ratings17 Nov 2031
Thomas Gyan, 34, rolls back the years — 8.08
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.08 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad17 Nov 2031
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.
Match15 Nov 2031
9 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about WAFA and New Edubiase United in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Squad17 Nov 2031
Words at WAFA training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Zakaria Messibah 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.
The terraces17 Nov 2031
At 19 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
Player ratings10 Nov 2031
Jonathan Asante, 36, rolls back the years — 8.17
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.17 at 36, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad10 Nov 2031
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.
Squad10 Nov 2031
Words at WAFA training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abdellah Haimoud 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.
Match8 Nov 2031
A 2‑1 win over Inter Allies, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The terraces10 Nov 2031
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Vincent Klu Adjeu has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Player ratings10 Nov 2031
Abdellah Haimoud was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.36. 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 ratings10 Nov 2031
A performance of 8.08 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad10 Nov 2031
Samuel Amofa 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.
Player ratings10 Nov 2031
Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Crisis
Match11 Oct 2031
A hiding for WAFA
Beaten 0‑4 by Great Olympics, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Squad13 Oct 2031
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match11 Oct 2031
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.
Squad13 Oct 2031
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.
Squad13 Oct 2031
Words at WAFA training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abdellah Haimoud 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 ratings13 Oct 2031
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad13 Oct 2031
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Samuel Sulemana commits to WAFA for another 1 years.
Boardroom13 Oct 2031
Doors closed at WAFA
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
Player ratings13 Oct 2031
1 error, one goal, and a night in front of the same three seconds. He will see it tonight, tomorrow and probably in February, and everybody who has played knows exactly which frame he keeps stopping on.
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Crisis
Squad4 Aug 2031
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 33 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Boardroom4 Aug 2031
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Boardroom4 Aug 2031
Crisis meeting at WAFA
The official line will be that it was routine. It was not routine, the timing says so, and every person in that room knows what the next bad result costs.
Squad4 Aug 2031
Tempers go at WAFA
Abdellah Haimoud 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.
Squad4 Aug 2031
Zakaria Messibah 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.
Market4 Aug 2031
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. WAFA will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Squad4 Aug 2031
“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.
Boardroom4 Aug 2031
$3.9M taken back off the WAFA table
What was available in the summer has quietly gone. Upstairs nobody will call it a change of ambition; downstairs nobody will call it anything else.
Market4 Aug 2031
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
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Crisis
Squad7 Jul 2031
A fracture rules Joseph Nathaniel out for 61 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason WAFA will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Boardroom7 Jul 2031
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Boardroom7 Jul 2031
The WAFA board call everybody in
Nothing has been announced and everybody understands what it means. A board that summons the whole football department on a Tuesday morning is a board that has stopped believing the problem will fix itself.
Squad7 Jul 2031
Tempers go at WAFA
Zakaria Messibah 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.
Squad7 Jul 2031
Abdellah Haimoud 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.
Market7 Jul 2031
The interest is real enough to have reached print. WAFA have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Market7 Jul 2031
Hasaacas are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. WAFA will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Boardroom7 Jul 2031
WAFA sign 8 boys into the academy
None of them will be seen by anybody outside the training ground for three years, most of them will never play a senior match, and one of them might change the club. That is the whole proposition, and it is why academies exist.
Squad7 Jul 2031
“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.
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Crisis
The terraces30 Jun 2031
The mood at WAFA has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Squad30 Jun 2031
A fracture rules Joseph Nathaniel out for 68 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason WAFA will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market30 Jun 2031
Samuel Amofa 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.
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Crisis
Squad9 Jun 2031
A fracture rules Joseph Nathaniel out for 89 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason WAFA will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad9 Jun 2031
Tempers go at WAFA
Gladson Kudus 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.
Squad9 Jun 2031
Abdellah Haimoud 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.
Market9 Jun 2031
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. WAFA will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Squad9 Jun 2031
“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.
Market9 Jun 2031
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Samuel Amofa may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad12 May 2031
Jonathan Amoah damages knee ligaments — 17 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 17 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.
Squad12 May 2031
Samuel Amofa: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” WAFA have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad12 May 2031
Tempers go at WAFA
Gladson Kudus 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.
In brief
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Squad
Words at WAFA training over how hard people work
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Boardroom
WAFA keep producing them
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Market
Samuel Sulemana runs his contract down
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match7 Dec 2030
The wait goes on for WAFA
9 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.
Squad9 Dec 2030
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.
Squad9 Dec 2030
Abdellah Haimoud 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.
Squad9 Dec 2030
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Samuel Sulemana commits to WAFA for another 1 years.
Match7 Dec 2030
A 1‑1 draw with Hasaacas leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Squad9 Dec 2030
The manager makes an example of Samuel Amofa
“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.