Patrick Owusu

Defensive Midfielder - Ashanti Gold U18
12 Feb 2028
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Marked for Patrick Owusu

78 Edition

The Ashanti Gold Sentinel

24 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad24 Jan 2028

Patrick Owusu damages knee ligaments — 17 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 17 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market24 Jan 2028

Hakim Sulemana 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 Ashanti Gold can pretend not to have heard.

Player ratings24 Jan 2028

Nobody could get near Hakim Sulemana

Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Transfer targets24 Jan 2028

Ashanti Gold make their move for Hamza Issah

$730.0K on the table at Hearts of Oak. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Squad24 Jan 2028

Isaac Hemans 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 Ashanti Gold this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets24 Jan 2028

Hearts of Oak tell Ashanti Gold: Henry Kwaku Boateng is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad24 Jan 2028

Samkelo Maseko 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.

Player ratings24 Jan 2028

Nobody on the pitch touched Isaac Hemans

7.57, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Ashanti Gold had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

Transfer targets24 Jan 2028

A loan move for Mpho Chabatsane is in the works

Ashanti Gold have made the call to Orlando Pirates. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

In brief

Back issues
77 Edition

The Ashanti Gold Sentinel

17 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad17 Jan 2028

A knee injury of the worst kind for Patrick Owusu

25 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ashanti Gold lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad17 Jan 2028

Mohammed Fatau breaks a bone — 17 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 17 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

The dugout17 Jan 2028

Samuel Mathias keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Ashanti Gold may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Player ratings17 Jan 2028

Age has not caught Ebenezer Assifuah yet — 7.94

At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.94 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Transfer targets17 Jan 2028

The paperwork begins on Jayden Adams

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Ashanti Gold have done the hard part with Mamelodi Sundowns, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Transfer targets17 Jan 2028

Too dear: Ashanti Gold walk away from Hamza Issah

$800.0K was the most the club would pay and Hearts of Oak were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Transfer targets17 Jan 2028

Ashanti Gold rebuffed over Samuel Alabi

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. MSK Zilina have kept their man, and Ashanti Gold go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Match15 Jan 2028

Boy Madingwana sends Ashanti Gold past Bechem United

It finished 2‑1, and it was Boy Madingwana’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Ashanti Gold.

The dugout17 Jan 2028

Abdullah Monkhallah gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

76 Edition

The Ashanti Gold Sentinel

10 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad10 Jan 2028

A knee injury of the worst kind for Patrick Owusu

32 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ashanti Gold lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad10 Jan 2028

24 days out for Mohammed Fatau after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Ashanti Gold will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market10 Jan 2028

Ashanti Gold say no — this time

The offer from Heart of Lions for Eric Oteng 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.

The dugout10 Jan 2028

Lwandiso Radebe says Ashanti Gold 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.

Squad10 Jan 2028

A move Alieu Cham would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Alieu Cham is living that version at Ashanti Gold, and it tends to show in the first month.

Market10 Jan 2028

Pule Manya 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 Ashanti Gold can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets10 Jan 2028

Ashanti Gold make their move for Hamza Issah

$800.0K on the table at Hearts of Oak. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Squad10 Jan 2028

A falling-out at Ashanti Gold

Eric Oteng and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets10 Jan 2028

Door shut on Godfred Boakye

Ashanti Gold asked and Aduana Stars said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

In brief

75 Edition

The Ashanti Gold Sentinel

3 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad3 Jan 2028

A knee injury of the worst kind for Patrick Owusu

39 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ashanti Gold lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad3 Jan 2028

A fracture rules Mohammed Fatau out for 32 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Ashanti Gold will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market3 Jan 2028

Eric Oteng asks to leave Ashanti Gold

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Player ratings3 Jan 2028

A brace, and Abdullah Monkhallah takes the afternoon — 8.44

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Abdullah Monkhallah provided it, and the 8.44 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad3 Jan 2028

A one-man rearguard from Lwandiso Radebe

There were 6 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.

Squad3 Jan 2028

A falling-out at Ashanti Gold

Eric Oteng and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match1 Jan 2028

Ashanti Gold find a way past Asante Kotoko

Asante Kotoko made Ashanti Gold work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Transfer targets3 Jan 2028

Door shut on Evans Oppong

Ashanti Gold asked and Great Olympics said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

The terraces3 Jan 2028

One of their own: Abdullah Monkhallah

He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

In brief