The Ashanti Gold Sentinel
Squad10 Aug 2026
A move Friday Ubong would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Friday Ubong is living that version at Ashanti Gold, and it tends to show in the first month.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
An offer of $2.1M for Dean Tau
Ashanti Gold have gone to Free State Stars with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Ashanti Gold
Eric Oteng and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
$320.0K for Kofi Asante, and Ashanti Gold supporters approve
Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Kofi Asante from Aduana Stars for $320.0K, and a ticket office having a very good morning.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Elvis Manu 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Real Bamako tell Ashanti Gold: Issa Djiguiba is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market10 Aug 2026
Ashanti Gold promote Kamaldeen Kudus from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Kamaldeen Kudus 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Andre Nuhu joins the Ashanti Gold first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Andre Nuhu is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Abraham Boakye joins the Ashanti Gold first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Abraham Boakye is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Ashanti Gold promote Samuel Asante from within
- Squad Selasie Bakai signs a new deal
- Transfer targets Ashanti Gold try to borrow Youssou Coulibaly