Ernest Baba

Attacking Midfielder (L) - New Edubiase United
27 May 2038
Thursday
Process

Marked for Ernest Baba

551 Edition

The New Edubiase United Gazette

16 Feb 2037
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Joke Efevwerha

There were 16 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Player ratings

Frank Abora Duku scores twice — 9.34

Two goals and a mark of 9.34 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Frank Abora Duku

16 goals and a season average of 7.76 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Squad

Kénan Glougbé 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.

Squad

Remember the name: Joseph Appiah

He is 21, he is averaging 7.02, and older professionals have started passing to him in the difficult minutes. That last part is the real scouting report.

Match

New Edubiase United get the job done against Hasaacas

A 3‑2 win over Hasaacas, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Market

The Bernard Agyemang talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. New Edubiase United know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Market

New Edubiase United and Osman Asante are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Player ratings

Kénan Glougbé runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 7. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

Back issues
527 Edition

The New Edubiase United Gazette

1 Sep 2036
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Salim Uzair Baafada says New Edubiase United went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Bernard Agyemang 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 New Edubiase United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at New Edubiase United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kénan Glougbé is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

In brief