The Hearts of Oak Gazette
Market24 Jul 2034
Yira Sor agrees terms with Berekum Chelsea
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Hearts of Oak people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market24 Jul 2034
Nana Atiemo asks to leave Hearts of Oak
“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.
Market24 Jul 2034
Andre Ayew is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Hearts of Oak is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market24 Jul 2034
Liberty Professionals come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Hearts of Oak did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad24 Jul 2034
A falling-out at Hearts of Oak
Michael Dokunmu and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets24 Jul 2034
Hearts of Oak rebuffed over Kojo Peprah Oppong
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Bayer Leverkusen have kept their man, and Hearts of Oak go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad24 Jul 2034
Words at Hearts of Oak training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ntando Tshwana is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout24 Jul 2034
Dillon Hoogewerf gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Dillon Hoogewerf is on it.
The dugout24 Jul 2034
The manager makes an example of Osman Adjei
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
In brief
- The dugout A door opens for Yira Sor
- Squad Osman Adjei has had enough of the bench
- Squad Questions about Samuel Asante on the training pitch