The Ashanti Gold Sentinel
Squad6 Sep 2027
A fracture rules Boalefa Pule out for 136 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Ashanti Gold will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market6 Sep 2027
Ugochukwu Ejike 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 Ashanti Gold can pretend not to have heard.
Market6 Sep 2027
Ugochukwu Ejike has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Ashanti Gold they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
Window shuts: 17 in, 6 out at Ashanti Gold
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 17 arrived, 6 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
Ugochukwu Ejike has agreed to leave Ashanti Gold 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
Tempers go at Ashanti Gold
Isaac Hemans 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.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
Graduation day at Ashanti Gold
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.
Transfer targets6 Sep 2027
Ashanti Gold rebuffed over Matías Esquivel
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Mamelodi Sundowns have kept their man, and Ashanti Gold go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market6 Sep 2027
Ashanti Gold promote Edmund Gyan from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Edmund Gyan 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
- Market Patrick Atiemo steps up from the Ashanti Gold academy
- Squad Words at Ashanti Gold training over how hard people work
- Boardroom Ashanti Gold let a promise lapse