Marked for Andre Partey
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market20 May 2030
Edmund Partey has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Hasaacas they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad20 May 2030
Andre Waris 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.
Squad20 May 2030
“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.
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Steady
Squad22 Apr 2030
Afriyie Boateng: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Hasaacas have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market22 Apr 2030
Edmund Partey has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Hasaacas they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad22 Apr 2030
Andre Waris 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.
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Uneasy
Squad8 Apr 2030
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Great Olympics may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad8 Apr 2030
Mohammed Fatau 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.
Squad8 Apr 2030
The manager makes an example of Mustafa Yahaya
“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.
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Crisis
Squad25 Mar 2030
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad25 Mar 2030
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Hasaacas may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market25 Mar 2030
Edmund Partey has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Hasaacas they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad25 Mar 2030
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Hasaacas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match23 Mar 2030
Medeama left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings25 Mar 2030
Marked 8.94 — 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.
Squad25 Mar 2030
“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.
Loan watch25 Mar 2030
“I did not go to Great Olympics to sit and watch. I want to come back to Hasaacas and fight for my place.” 2 appearances in 6 matches say the rest.
Player ratings25 Mar 2030
Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Uneasy
Match16 Mar 2030
12 matches without a win for Great Olympics
The run now stands at 12, and the questions being asked around Great Olympics are no longer polite ones.
Squad18 Mar 2030
Seidu Ismaila: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Great Olympics have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad18 Mar 2030
43 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Player ratings18 Mar 2030
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad18 Mar 2030
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.
Player ratings18 Mar 2030
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.57, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Match16 Mar 2030
It needed Andre Partey to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Bechem United, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Squad18 Mar 2030
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Osafo Antwi, and the manager let it.
Market18 Mar 2030
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Great Olympics know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Uneasy
Squad4 Feb 2030
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad4 Feb 2030
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Fred Dabanka and Hasaacas agree another 2 years.
Squad4 Feb 2030
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Hasaacas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match2 Feb 2030
Inter Allies made Hasaacas work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings4 Feb 2030
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.48, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Boardroom4 Feb 2030
Hasaacas release $2.7M for the manager
The board have put money on the table rather than an encouraging word. What happens to it now is somebody else's problem, and somebody else's job.
Market4 Feb 2030
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Hasaacas will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Market4 Feb 2030
12 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Squad4 Feb 2030
Mo Waddani 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.
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Uneasy
Market21 Jan 2030
Hasaacas say no — this time
The offer from Great Olympics for Samuel Okai was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Match19 Jan 2030
4 matches without a win for Hasaacas
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Hasaacas are no longer polite ones.
Squad21 Jan 2030
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Hasaacas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings21 Jan 2030
A performance of 9.13 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad21 Jan 2030
Fred Dabanka 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.
Squad21 Jan 2030
8 goals and a season average of 7.33. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Player ratings21 Jan 2030
Marked 8.22 — 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.
Squad21 Jan 2030
15 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Match19 Jan 2030
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
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Steady
Squad7 Jan 2030
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad7 Jan 2030
An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Hasaacas have had the benefit of it.
Market7 Jan 2030
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Hasaacas, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market7 Jan 2030
Hasaacas say no — this time
The offer from Wa All Stars for Andre Partey was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad7 Jan 2030
Andre Waris 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.
Player ratings7 Jan 2030
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad7 Jan 2030
The manager makes an example of Kwame 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.
Boardroom7 Jan 2030
Hasaacas release $2.7M for the manager
The board have put money on the table rather than an encouraging word. What happens to it now is somebody else's problem, and somebody else's job.
Market7 Jan 2030
Inter Allies are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Hasaacas will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
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Uneasy
Squad23 Jul 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Hasaacas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market23 Jul 2029
Yaw Nuhu attracts admirers
The name of Yaw Nuhu has come up in conversations Hasaacas were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
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Steady
Market5 Feb 2029
“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.
Squad5 Feb 2029
Amos Sulemana 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.
Market5 Feb 2029
The WAFA deal is off
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Yaw Nuhu reports back to Hasaacas with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Player ratings5 Feb 2029
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 22 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Match3 Feb 2029
Still nobody has beaten Hasaacas
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Player ratings5 Feb 2029
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad5 Feb 2029
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Daniel Partey, and the manager let it.
Boardroom5 Feb 2029
$2.8M on the table at Hasaacas
The board have answered with money instead of encouragement, which is the only answer a manager ever wants. Spending it well is now entirely his problem.
Squad5 Feb 2029
9 shut-outs and counting. Goalkeepers are only noticed when they fail, and Patrick Wakaso has given nobody the chance.
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Steady
Market15 Jan 2029
So close: Edmund Partey’s move dies late
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Great Olympics moved on, Edmund Partey reports back to Hasaacas, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Market15 Jan 2029
Hasaacas say no — this time
The offer from Bechem United for Yaw Nuhu was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad15 Jan 2029
Andre Waris 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.
Squad15 Jan 2029
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Kamaldeen Acquah commits to Hasaacas for another 3 years.
Player ratings15 Jan 2029
Marked 9.08 — 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.
Match13 Jan 2029
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Emmanuel Ofori. 2‑1 against Liberty Professionals, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad15 Jan 2029
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Hasaacas are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad15 Jan 2029
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Patrick Wakaso knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
Market15 Jan 2029
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Hasaacas will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
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Crisis
Match9 Sep 2028
13 matches without a win for Hasaacas
The run now stands at 13, and the questions being asked around Hasaacas are no longer polite ones.
Market11 Sep 2028
Only the photograph left for Abdul Acquah
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Abdul Acquah will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Hasaacas the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market11 Sep 2028
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad11 Sep 2028
Amos Sulemana 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.
Market11 Sep 2028
The WAFA deal is off
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Yaw Nuhu reports back to Hasaacas with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Match9 Sep 2028
Aduana Stars left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad11 Sep 2028
The medical room confirms 49 days on the sidelines for David Boakye, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad11 Sep 2028
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Andre Partey and Hasaacas agree another 4 years.
Squad11 Sep 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Isaiah Balogun, and the manager let it.