The BA All Stars Gazette
Player ratings4 Sep 2028
Samuel Mohammed, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 7.74
A mark of 7.74 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Market4 Sep 2028
As if he never left: Ifeanyi Ihemekwele returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Ifeanyi Ihemekwele is a BA All Stars player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Squad4 Sep 2028
Tempers go at BA All Stars
Ifeanyi Ihemekwele 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.
Boardroom4 Sep 2028
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.
Squad4 Sep 2028
Albert Bukari has improved at 26, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Squad4 Sep 2028
Albert Mohammed 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.
Match2 Sep 2028
BA All Stars see off Hasaacas
Three points for BA All Stars, 2‑1 the final word against Hasaacas in a contest settled by the finer margins.
The terraces4 Sep 2028
BA All Stars supporters have found a favourite in Samuel Mohammed
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 19-year-old it feels ownership of. Samuel Mohammed has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Market4 Sep 2028
Patrick Boakye steps up from the BA All Stars academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Patrick Boakye 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.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Kwadwo Sulemana joins the BA All Stars first team
- Market Daniel Inusah steps up from the BA All Stars academy
- Squad The manager makes an example of Ifeanyi Ihemekwele