The Great Olympics Gazette
Squad6 Sep 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Prince Otubua
30 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Great Olympics lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match4 Sep 2027
7 matches without a win for Great Olympics
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Great Olympics are no longer polite ones.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
An order from above at Great Olympics: 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
Real improvement from George Osei at Great Olympics
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. George Osei is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Tempers go at Great Olympics
Boikanyo Komane 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.
Match4 Sep 2027
Great Olympics are shipping goals every week
Two or more conceded in each of the last 5 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Richmond Lamptey has improved at 30, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 4 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Great Olympics
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Player ratings6 Sep 2027
Ninety minutes of Dillon Hoogewerf at his very best
Marked 8.72. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Great Olympics.
In brief
- Market Great Olympics promote David Gyan from within
- Market Abraham Asante steps up from the Great Olympics academy
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