The BA All Stars Gazette
Market7 Sep 2026
Francis Acquah asks to leave BA All Stars
“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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 7 in, 1 out at BA All Stars
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 7 arrived, 1 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Market7 Sep 2026
BA All Stars say no — this time
The offer from Bechem United for Jeffrey Paintsil was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
BA All Stars go back to the board over Inusah Adam
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $77.9K — a club that wants Inusah Adam enough to be asked twice.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Too dear: BA All Stars walk away from Inusah Adam
$74.0K was the most the club would pay and Asante Kotoko were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Graduation day at BA All Stars
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.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Door shut on Kwame Baba
BA All Stars asked and WAFA said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market7 Sep 2026
One of our own: Felix Boateng joins the BA All Stars first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Felix Boateng 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
BA All Stars promote Patrick Ayew from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Patrick Ayew 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
- Squad Francis Kudus in a row with a teammate
- Squad Jeffrey Paintsil is no longer first choice
- Squad A row about effort at BA All Stars