The BA All Stars Gazette
Market6 Sep 2027
Only the photograph left for Abdul Atiemo
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Abdul Atiemo will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around BA All Stars the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market6 Sep 2027
Isaac Mensah 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 BA All Stars can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
Deadline passes with 8 signed and 7 gone
That is the business done at BA All Stars 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.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
Abdul Mumini Salifu has agreed to leave BA All Stars for nothing
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Daddy Abdulrahman 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.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
Graduation day at BA All Stars
5 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.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Osman Boateng 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.
Market6 Sep 2027
Andre Djiku steps up from the BA All Stars academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Andre Djiku has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market6 Sep 2027
BA All Stars promote Daniel Bukari from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Daniel Bukari 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.
In brief
- Squad Amadou Traore out for 14 days
- Squad David Andrew is no longer first choice
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Isaac Mensah