The Ashanti Gold Sentinel
Squad7 Sep 2026
Mehdi Ouaya breaks a bone — 72 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 72 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Richmond Lamptey runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 37. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Samuel Tetteh scores twice — 8.01
Two goals and a mark of 8.01 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Seth Paintsil in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Ashanti Gold this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Graduation day at Ashanti Gold
5 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Richard Boadu 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
Samuel Tetteh sends Ashanti Gold past WAFA
It finished 2‑1, and it was Samuel Tetteh’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Ashanti Gold.
Market7 Sep 2026
One of our own: Baba Essien joins the Ashanti Gold first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Baba Essien is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market7 Sep 2026
Afriyie Asamoah steps up from the Ashanti Gold academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Afriyie Asamoah has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
In brief
- Market Ashanti Gold promote Andrew Paintsil from within
- Market One of our own: Joseph Owusu joins the Ashanti Gold first team
- Squad 20 new faces, and Ashanti Gold are still learning each other