The BA All Stars Gazette
Squad5 Mar 2029
The knee: Edmund Essien out for 21 days
21 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. BA All Stars lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market5 Mar 2029
Only the photograph left for Albert Adjei
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Albert Adjei will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around BA All Stars the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match3 Mar 2029
5 matches without a win for BA All Stars
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around BA All Stars are no longer polite ones.
Squad5 Mar 2029
Albert Adjei 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 BA All Stars this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market5 Mar 2029
One of our own: Felix Kudus joins the BA All Stars first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Felix Kudus is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market5 Mar 2029
One of our own: Thomas Appiah joins the BA All Stars first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Thomas Appiah is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market5 Mar 2029
One of our own: Isaac Baba joins the BA All Stars first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Isaac Baba is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad5 Mar 2029
A row about effort at BA All Stars
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Abdul Atiemo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad5 Mar 2029
Robert Mboya signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Robert Mboya commits to BA All Stars for another 1 years.
In brief
- Loan watch Abeiku Essien counts the days
- The dugout Christian Ofori: “We have to be better”
- The dugout Daddy Abdulrahman knocks on the manager's door