David Partey

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310 Edition

The Great Olympics Gazette

5 Jul 2032
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad5 Jul 2032

David Partey breaks a bone — 23 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 23 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market5 Jul 2032

Viliame Mocenica 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 Great Olympics can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets5 Jul 2032

The paperwork begins on Isaac Adjei

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Great Olympics have done the hard part with Hasaacas, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Squad5 Jul 2032

Lawrence Osei signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Lawrence Osei and Great Olympics agree another 1 years.

Squad5 Jul 2032

Lawrence Osei 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 Great Olympics this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets5 Jul 2032

Door shut on Johnson Amuzu

Great Olympics asked and Ashanti Gold said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Boardroom5 Jul 2032

The Great Olympics board find $1.6M for the manager

Money, not words, and it is the only answer a manager ever wants. Spending $1.6M well is entirely his problem now.

Market5 Jul 2032

The clock runs on Lawrence Osei's contract

12 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.

Transfer targets5 Jul 2032

Great Olympics try to borrow Enock Otoo

Hearts of Oak have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

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309 Edition

The Great Olympics Gazette

28 Jun 2032
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad28 Jun 2032

David Partey breaks a bone — 32 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 32 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market28 Jun 2032

Thomas Agyepong asks to leave Great Olympics

“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.

Transfer targets28 Jun 2032

Andrew Gyan is a medical away from Great Olympics

The deal with Medeama is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Squad28 Jun 2032

Tempers go at Great Olympics

Lawrence Osei 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.

Transfer targets28 Jun 2032

Great Olympics rebuffed over Peter Amidu Acquah

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Asante Kotoko have kept their man, and Great Olympics go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad28 Jun 2032

Great Olympics count the cost of losing Jeffrey Acquah

30 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

The dugout28 Jun 2032

Thomas Agyepong gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

The dugout28 Jun 2032

Steve Biko Omollo 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 Steve Biko Omollo is on it.

Market28 Jun 2032

The Shayibu Abubakari question follows Great Olympics around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Shayibu Abubakari’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

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308 Edition

The Great Olympics Gazette

21 Jun 2032
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad21 Jun 2032

41 days out for David Partey after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Great Olympics will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Transfer targets21 Jun 2032

Enock Otoo is a medical away from Great Olympics

The deal with Hearts of Oak is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Squad21 Jun 2032

Kofi Asante 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 Great Olympics this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets21 Jun 2032

Door shut on Yussif Moro Owusu

Great Olympics asked and Hearts of Oak said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market21 Jun 2032

The Steve Biko Omollo question follows Great Olympics around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Steve Biko Omollo’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

The dugout21 Jun 2032

When it matters, Kwame Asante plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

In brief

307 Edition

The Great Olympics Gazette

14 Jun 2032
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad14 Jun 2032

David Partey breaks a bone — 49 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 49 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad14 Jun 2032

A falling-out at Great Olympics

Lawrence Osei and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets14 Jun 2032

Medeama tell Great Olympics: Adams Abdul Jabal is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad14 Jun 2032

Samuel Okon signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Samuel Okon and Great Olympics agree another 1 years.

Transfer targets14 Jun 2032

Great Olympics try to borrow Djawal Kaiba

Asante Kotoko have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Transfer targets14 Jun 2032

Great Olympics try to borrow Enock Otoo

Hearts of Oak have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Transfer targets14 Jun 2032

Great Olympics ask about Isaac Adjei

A loan enquiry to Hasaacas: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

The dugout14 Jun 2032

Simeon Habila 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 Simeon Habila is on it.

Market14 Jun 2032

Simeon Habila linked with a move away

The name of Simeon Habila keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Great Olympics say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

299 Edition

The Great Olympics Gazette

19 Apr 2032
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings19 Apr 2032

Viliame Mocenica runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad19 Apr 2032

Tempers go at Great Olympics

Kofi Asante 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.

Match17 Apr 2032

A bad afternoon for Great Olympics against Bechem United

0‑2 to Bechem United, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout19 Apr 2032

Lawrence Osei gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad19 Apr 2032

David Partey stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” David Partey and Great Olympics agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout19 Apr 2032

the manager faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” the manager after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

The dugout19 Apr 2032

When it matters, Simeon Habila plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Squad19 Apr 2032

Words at Great Olympics training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Daniel Odiwuor 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.

Squad19 Apr 2032

Simeon Habila has to sit this one out

A booking nobody needed, on a night the game was already won. Great Olympics lose a player for the most avoidable reason there is.

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