The Hasaacas Gazette
Squad3 Sep 2035
Andre Owusu breaks a bone — 68 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 68 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market3 Sep 2035
Lorenzo Appiah is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Hasaacas is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Player ratings3 Sep 2035
Shafin Murtala scores twice — 8.13
Two goals and a mark of 8.13 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings3 Sep 2035
Age has not caught Edmund Owusu yet — 8.13
At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.13 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Boardroom3 Sep 2035
Hasaacas tie Amos Bukari down
A new deal for the man in the dugout, and the clearest thing a board can say without calling a press conference about it. Stability is cheap to promise and expensive to deliver.
Squad3 Sep 2035
Thomas Kudus stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Thomas Kudus and Hasaacas agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Sep 2035
Joseph Essien 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 Hasaacas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match1 Sep 2035
Shafin Murtala sends Hasaacas past BA All Stars
It finished 4‑3, and it was Shafin Murtala’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Hasaacas.
Match1 Sep 2035
Shafin Murtala among the goals in a wild afternoon
7 goals in one match, Shafin Murtala on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Hasaacas and BA All Stars.
In brief
- Boardroom 7 academy players handed senior numbers at Hasaacas
- Player ratings Thomas Kudus was on a different afternoon to everybody else
- Market Albert Baba steps up from the Hasaacas academy