The BA All Stars Gazette
Match4 Sep 2027
32 matches without a win for BA All Stars
The run now stands at 32, and the questions being asked around BA All Stars are no longer polite ones.
Market6 Sep 2027
Thomas Partey hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what BA All Stars can pretend not to have heard.
Market6 Sep 2027
BA All Stars turn down Al Ahli for Osman Atiemo
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Thomas Partey 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.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Joseph Mohammed 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 BA All Stars this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad6 Sep 2027
A late step up for Nana Waris
At 30 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 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 BA All Stars
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.
Match4 Sep 2027
The goals have deserted BA All Stars
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at BA All Stars can tell you which week it ends in.
Market6 Sep 2027
Joseph Afful steps up from the BA All Stars academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Joseph Afful 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 BA All Stars promote Baba Wakaso from within
- Match BA All Stars come up short against Hasaacas
- Squad The manager makes an example of Jonathan Djiku