The Great Olympics Gazette
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Deadline passes with 34 signed and 0 gone
That is the business done at Great Olympics until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Bongani Mphela will not be coming to Great Olympics
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Platinum Stars is saying, and nobody at Great Olympics is enjoying the guessing.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Graduation day at Great Olympics
2 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
WAFA tell Great Olympics: Andre Owusu 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Great Olympics
Isaac Frimpong 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
Great Olympics promote Andre Asante from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Andre Asante has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market7 Sep 2026
Great Olympics promote Mohammed Annan from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Mohammed Annan has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Squad7 Sep 2026
18 new faces, and Great Olympics are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Jonah Aryeetey is no longer first choice
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Jonah Aryeetey has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
In brief
- Boardroom No investment in the facilities at Great Olympics
- Squad Matthew Agama falls out with a teammate over standards
- Market Great Olympics and Evans Oppong are talking past each other