The Ashanti Gold Sentinel
Squad6 Sep 2027
Real improvement from Nana Partey at Ashanti Gold
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Nana Partey is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
An order from above at Ashanti Gold: somebody has to go
Balance sheets do not care about form or about who the manager was planning to build around. The board have decided a sale is required, and the only question left is which name ends up carrying it.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Tempers go at Ashanti Gold
Andy Yiadom 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.
Squad6 Sep 2027
A late step up for Siphelele Mkhulise
At 31 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 4 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
Graduation day at Ashanti Gold
6 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 2027
Sylvester Igboun 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.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
Ashanti Gold agree a free transfer for Mohammed Inusah
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
Market6 Sep 2027
One of our own: Samuel Adjei joins the Ashanti Gold first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Samuel Adjei is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market6 Sep 2027
Ashanti Gold promote Emmanuel Bukari from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Emmanuel Bukari 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.
In brief
- Market Ashanti Gold promote Abraham Boateng from within
- Market Ashanti Gold promote Afriyie Appiah from within
- Match Ashanti Gold see off WAFA