Baba Annan

Central Defender - Ashanti Gold U18
6 Mar 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Baba Annan

6 Edition

The Ashanti Gold Sentinel

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom

Deadline passes with 38 signed and 0 gone

That is the business done at Ashanti Gold 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 targets

Monnapule Saleng turns down Ashanti Gold

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Mamelodi Sundowns keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Ashanti Gold

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 targets

Kun Khalifat tell Ashanti Gold: Daniel Ifeanyichukwu 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.

Market

Isaac Bukari steps up from the Ashanti Gold academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Isaac Bukari 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.

Market

Ashanti Gold promote Baba Annan from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Baba 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.

Squad

Thulani Mahlangu needs a bigger stage

He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and Ashanti Gold know which stage they are at.

Squad

Thomas Kwabena Osae slips down the pecking order

The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Thomas Kwabena Osae is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.

Boardroom

Ashanti Gold say no to the training-ground money

The plan went upstairs and came back down. Nothing about that will make a headline anywhere else, and everybody who works at the training ground will remember it for years.

In brief