Jonathan Appiah

Left Wingback - Liberty Professionals U18
28 Jun 2031
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251 Edition

The Liberty Professionals Chronicle

19 May 2031
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market19 May 2031

Osman Boateng puts it in writing

“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 The request is on a desk at Liberty Professionals, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market19 May 2031

Only the photograph left for Nqobani Biyela

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Nqobani Biyela will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Liberty Professionals the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad19 May 2031

David Paintsil falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad19 May 2031

Words exchanged at Liberty Professionals

Gladson Amoah 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.

The dugout19 May 2031

Osman Boateng frozen out at Liberty Professionals

This is not rotation. Osman Boateng has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Liberty Professionals is pretending otherwise.

The dugout19 May 2031

Jonathan Amoah is still paying for one afternoon at Liberty Professionals

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

The dugout19 May 2031

Albert Schlupp has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Liberty Professionals will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Squad19 May 2031

Jonathan Appiah has had enough of the bench

“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Liberty Professionals will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.

The dugout19 May 2031

Nana Mohammed 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 Nana Mohammed trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

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214 Edition

The Liberty Professionals Chronicle

2 Sep 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad2 Sep 2030

The knee: a squad player out for 21 days

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

Market2 Sep 2030

a squad player asks to leave Liberty Professionals

“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.

Market2 Sep 2030

Liberty Professionals say no — this time

The offer from Hearts of Oak for a squad player 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.

Market2 Sep 2030

Medeama watching Ibrahim Sodiq

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Liberty Professionals have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Boardroom2 Sep 2030

Liberty Professionals close the window on a squad of their own making

5 in and 21 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Boardroom2 Sep 2030

5 academy players handed senior numbers at Liberty Professionals

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Market2 Sep 2030

Abeiku Boakye steps up from the Liberty Professionals academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Abeiku Boakye 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.

Squad2 Sep 2030

Gladson Amoah 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 Liberty Professionals this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout2 Sep 2030

Jonathan Amoah 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 Jonathan Amoah is on it.

In brief