Ernest Asante

Defensive Midfielder - Free Agent
3 Jan 2030
Thursday
Process

Marked for Ernest Asante

90 Edition

The Hasaacas Gazette

17 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Gladson Afful signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Gladson Afful and Hasaacas agree another 3 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Hasaacas

Albert Inusah 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

Christian Nuhu 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.

The dugout

David Atiemo is still paying for one afternoon at Hasaacas

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

The dugout

Gladson Afful knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Gladson Afful trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout

Francis Asamoah gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Francis Asamoah is on it.

In brief

Back issues
87 Edition

The Hasaacas Gazette

27 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Ernest Asante

20 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Hasaacas lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

Full time on the season at Hasaacas

Position 4 on 56 points. Every season is a story and this is the last line of it, and now the club has three months to decide what the next one is about.

Squad

Hasaacas count the cost of losing Baba Adjei

19 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad

Words exchanged at Hasaacas

Albert Inusah 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.

Squad

Albert Inusah is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.29 with 12 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Match

Hasaacas come up short against Medeama

Medeama left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Walid Fuseini

“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.

Loan watch

Andrew Asante wants to come home

“I did not go to BATE to sit and watch. I want to come back to Hasaacas and fight for my place.” 4 appearances in 36 matches say the rest.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑2 defeat, delivered by Andrew Asamoah to a room that had heard them before.

In brief

86 Edition

The Hasaacas Gazette

20 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Ernest Asante

27 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Hasaacas lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

3 goals for Albert Inusah

The match ball belongs to Albert Inusah, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.

Market

Kamaldeen Schlupp asks to leave Hasaacas

“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

Age has not caught Christian Nuhu yet — 7.92

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.92 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad

Tempers go at Hasaacas

Albert Inusah 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.

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 Hasaacas and WAFA in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

Match

Albert Inusah sends Hasaacas past WAFA

It finished 4‑2, and it was Albert Inusah’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Hasaacas.

Player ratings

Albert Inusah was on a different afternoon to everybody else

9.72. 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.

Match

Nobody wins at Hasaacas

9 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

In brief