Andre Ayew

Defensive Midfielder - Hearts of Oak
7 Aug 2033
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Marked for Andre Ayew

358 Edition

The Hearts of Oak Gazette

6 Jun 2033
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market6 Jun 2033

Terms done: Andrew Imade is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Hasaacas waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Hearts of Oak is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Match6 Jun 2033

Hearts of Oak are in among the leaders

Position 2 and 77 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

The dugout6 Jun 2033

Andre Ayew says Hearts of Oak went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market6 Jun 2033

Inter Allies 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.

Market6 Jun 2033

Mohammed Paintsil 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.

Transfer targets6 Jun 2033

Mohamed Azzi is a medical away from Hearts of Oak

The deal with Asante Kotoko 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.

Transfer targets6 Jun 2033

Hearts of Oak rebuffed over Emmanuel Essiam

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Maccabi Tel Aviv have kept their man, and Hearts of Oak go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad6 Jun 2033

Ntando Tshwana 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 Hearts of Oak this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market6 Jun 2033

Eyes on Ali Mohammed again

The phone has started ringing about Ali Mohammed again, and this time the name on the line is Inter Allies. Hearts of Oak are listening politely and promising nothing.

In brief

Back issues
330 Edition

The Hearts of Oak Gazette

22 Nov 2032
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad22 Nov 2032

The knee: Andre Ayew out for 15 days

15 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Hearts of Oak lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match22 Nov 2032

Hearts of Oak refuse to drop out of the race

Position 2, 24 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

The dugout22 Nov 2032

Joshua Baba keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Hearts of Oak may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market22 Nov 2032

Only the photograph left for Ali Mohammed

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ali Mohammed will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Hearts of Oak the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad22 Nov 2032

Tempers go at Hearts of Oak

Edmund Arko-Mensah 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.

Match20 Nov 2032

Hearts of Oak find a way past Inter Allies

Inter Allies made Hearts of Oak work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad22 Nov 2032

A row about effort at Hearts of Oak

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Clinton Duodu was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Player ratings22 Nov 2032

Josué Tiendrébéogo was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.23. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Player ratings22 Nov 2032

A masterclass from Michael Dokunmu

Marked 8.12 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

In brief

329 Edition

The Hearts of Oak Gazette

15 Nov 2032
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad15 Nov 2032

Andre Ayew damages knee ligaments — 23 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 23 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.

Market15 Nov 2032

Mustapha Lawal 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.

Squad15 Nov 2032

Words exchanged at Hearts of Oak

Josué Tiendrébéogo and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad15 Nov 2032

A row about effort at Hearts of Oak

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Clinton Duodu was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout15 Nov 2032

Michael Dokunmu 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 Michael Dokunmu is on it.

Market15 Nov 2032

Still no ink between Hearts of Oak and Karamba Gassama

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Hearts of Oak, another week without a signature from Karamba Gassama.

The dugout15 Nov 2032

The manager makes an example of Emmanuel Kyereh

“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.

The dugout15 Nov 2032

Clinton Duodu knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Clinton Duodu trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Looking ahead15 Nov 2032

Dari Haruna goes back to face Inter Allies

Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Dari Haruna’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Hearts of Oak needing him to play as if none of it matters.

In brief