The Great Olympics Gazette
Market19 Jun 2028
Godfred Asiamah 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 Great Olympics can pretend not to have heard.
Market19 Jun 2028
Only the photograph left for Gladson Awako
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Gladson Awako will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Great Olympics the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market19 Jun 2028
WAFA join the queue for Adam Musah
Add another name to the list: WAFA have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Adam Musah. The answer from Great Olympics has not changed — yet.
Boardroom19 Jun 2028
Gladson Awako has agreed to leave Great Olympics for nothing
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad19 Jun 2028
Tempers go at Great Olympics
Seth Paintsil 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.
Squad19 Jun 2028
Eric Oteng 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
- The dugout No hiding place for Isaac Baba
- The dugout Emmanuel Onu knocks on the manager's door
- The dugout Ebuka Akobundu keeps his manager's vote
- Squad Jonathan Baba is out on the grass again