The Berekum Chelsea Gazette
Squad4 Aug 2031
Seth Paintsil damages knee ligaments — 53 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 53 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match4 Aug 2031
Berekum Chelsea up to position 3
64 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad4 Aug 2031
9 seasons of Emmanuel Sarpong
198 appearances across 9 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Berekum Chelsea know what they have.
Squad4 Aug 2031
Tempers go at Berekum Chelsea
Hakim Sulemana 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.
Squad4 Aug 2031
Richmond Lamptey 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.
Boardroom4 Aug 2031
$3.2M on the table at Berekum Chelsea
The board have answered with money instead of encouragement, which is the only answer a manager ever wants. Spending it well is now entirely his problem.
In brief
- Market Talks stall between Berekum Chelsea and Emmanuel Sarpong
- Market Jonathan Kudus leaves for nothing
- Boardroom The Berekum Chelsea production line keeps running