The Asante Kotoko Post
Market6 Sep 2027
Bernard Somuah asks to leave Asante Kotoko
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market6 Sep 2027
Saaka Dauda is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Asante Kotoko is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
Window shuts: 11 in, 18 out at Asante Kotoko
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 11 arrived, 18 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Kwame Opoku 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 Asante Kotoko this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
Graduation day at Asante Kotoko
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
A row about effort at Asante Kotoko
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Abraham Bukari was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market6 Sep 2027
One of our own: Osman Inusah joins the Asante Kotoko first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Osman Inusah is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market6 Sep 2027
Albert Addo steps up from the Asante Kotoko academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Albert Addo 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.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
Asante Kotoko let a promise lapse
A date was given and it came and went. Nobody upstairs will call it a broken promise, and nobody downstairs will call it anything else for a long time.
In brief
- Squad Malomo Taofeeq has outgrown this division
- The dugout Ikenna Nkwazema gets it from the manager
- Looking ahead Dari Haruna faces his old club