Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Andrew Addo will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Liberty Professionals the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Lorenzo Appiah is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Christian Owusu 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.
Squad16 Sep 2030
David Atiemo 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.
It needed Andrew Paintsil to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against New Edubiase United, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Liberty Professionals know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Liberty Professionals may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
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.
Christian Owusu 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.
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SquadAndre Boateng falls out with a teammate over standards
9 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
“The easiest signature of my career.” Edmund Asamoah and Liberty Professionals agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andre Boateng 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.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Liberty Professionals this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Nobody at Liberty Professionals will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Christian Owusu 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.
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Ebere Ejuke has just signed for Liberty Professionals, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad18 Jun 2029
David Atiemo 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.
He is 19, and nobody at Liberty Professionals signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.