The Great Olympics Gazette
Squad16 Aug 2027
The knee: Seidu Ismaila out for 72 days
72 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Great Olympics lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market16 Aug 2027
Inter Allies expected to open talks for Seidu Ismaila
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Great Olympics will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Market16 Aug 2027
Great Olympics put Basit Ahmed up for sale
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Basit Ahmed may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
The dugout16 Aug 2027
Matthew Agama knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Great Olympics, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad16 Aug 2027
The training reports on Ebenezer Kpozo are not good
A bad Saturday is forgiven; a bad Tuesday is chosen. Standards have slipped and in a building where everybody watches everybody, it has been noticed.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Word from the training ground: Dennis Konney
The sharpest man in every session this week, by all accounts. Lines like this run the week before somebody’s run in the side begins.
In brief
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Jonah Aryeetey
- Squad Daniel Inusah back in training