The Liberty Professionals Chronicle
Squad6 Sep 2027
Erick Torres damages knee ligaments — 83 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 83 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market6 Sep 2027
Only the photograph left for Souleymane Tambadou
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Souleymane Tambadou will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Liberty Professionals the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Player ratings6 Sep 2027
Benjamín García runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Abeiku Asamoah is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
Liberty Professionals to lose Souleymane Tambadou for free
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Souleymane Tambadou has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Market6 Sep 2027
Patrick Mensah is a Liberty Professionals player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Squad6 Sep 2027
A late step up for Rivio Ayemwenre
At 28 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
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Liberty Professionals
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.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Abdul Schlupp 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.
In brief
- Match Liberty Professionals see off Inter Allies
- Market One of our own: Andre Acquah joins the Liberty Professionals first team
- Market Liberty Professionals promote Abdul Schlupp from within