Daniel Kudus

Left Midfielder - Berekum Chelsea
9 Dec 2040
Sunday
Process

Marked for Daniel Kudus

737 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

10 Sep 2040
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Vincent Klu Adjeu

93 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Berekum Chelsea lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

Morrison Anokye breaks a bone — 56 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 56 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Mohammed Kyereh 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 The request is on a desk at Berekum Chelsea, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Morgan Mphela 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 Berekum Chelsea this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Zeke May 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.

Match

The run at home goes on for Berekum Chelsea

8 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.

Match

Berekum Chelsea share the spoils with Great Olympics

A 1‑1 draw with Great Olympics leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

Market

Daniel Kudus is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Berekum Chelsea has been clear about where Daniel Kudus stands, which is more than many ever get.

Market

Samuel Tenedu linked with a move away

The name of Samuel Tenedu keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Berekum Chelsea say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

Back issues
712 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

19 Mar 2040
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Zeke May damages knee ligaments — 54 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 54 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Berekum Chelsea

Anes Abed 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.

Squad

Samuel Tenedu 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.

Match

Berekum Chelsea find a way past BA All Stars

BA All Stars made Berekum Chelsea work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

The terraces

Berekum Chelsea supporters have found a favourite in Daniel Kudus

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Daniel Kudus has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Player ratings

Daniel Kudus was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.11. 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.

In brief

683 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

29 Aug 2039
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Anes Abed out for 134 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Berekum Chelsea will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Aduana Stars come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Berekum Chelsea did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Tempers go at Berekum Chelsea

Anes Abed 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.

In brief

658 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

7 Mar 2039
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Tamás Kollarik has been here 11 seasons

83 appearances across 11 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.

Squad

Daniel Kudus: 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.” Berekum Chelsea have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Seidu Abubakar 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 Berekum Chelsea this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Samuel Tenedu 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.

Player ratings

Michael Mensah Awuah was immovable

18 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.

Boardroom

$2.9M on the table at Berekum Chelsea

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.

Player ratings

Morgan Mphela runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

Anes Abed shuts the door

Defensive actions: 14, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Player ratings

Nothing got past Morrison Anokye

13 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.

In brief