Marked for Ernest Ofori
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market30 Aug 2027
Nana Annan 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.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Henry Kwaku Boateng is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Afriyie Gyan 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.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Godfred Asiamah has improved at 27, 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.
Squad30 Aug 2027
The medical room confirms 35 days on the sidelines for Ernest Ofori, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Market30 Aug 2027
He is 17, and nobody at BA All Stars signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Market23 Aug 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Liberty Professionals is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Gladson Adjei is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Amos Bukari 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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
At 29 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market16 Aug 2027
The offer from Asante Kotoko for Amos Bukari 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.
Market16 Aug 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Liberty Professionals can pretend not to have heard.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Kwadwo Kudus is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Amos Bukari has improved at 25, 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. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Kwadwo Kudus 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.
Squad16 Aug 2027
32 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.