Jonathan Afful

Right Midfielder - Liberty Professionals
9 Nov 2035
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480 Edition

The Liberty Professionals Chronicle

8 Oct 2035
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match3 Oct 2035

Cup progress for Liberty Professionals

A 1‑0 win over Great Olympics, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Match6 Oct 2035

Liberty Professionals tear Hasaacas apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Hasaacas, and it could have been more.

Match3 Oct 2035

Cruel end for Great Olympics as Liberty Professionals pounce

There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Liberty Professionals scored in the 91th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.

Player ratings8 Oct 2035

A brace, and Owen Oseni takes the afternoon — 9.31

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Owen Oseni provided it, and the 9.31 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Match6 Oct 2035

Nobody wants to play Liberty Professionals right now

6 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Player ratings8 Oct 2035

A debut Kwadwo Inusah will not forget — 7.21

There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 0 on the scoresheet, 7.21 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.

Player ratings8 Oct 2035

No sign of nerves from Jonathan Afful at 16 — 8.30

The hardest thing about being 16 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Jonathan Afful did not need any: 8.30, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

The terraces8 Oct 2035

Liberty Professionals supporters have found a favourite in Kwadwo Inusah

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 16-year-old it feels ownership of. Kwadwo Inusah 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 ratings8 Oct 2035

One of those days for Jonathan Amoah

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.24, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

In brief

Back issues
467 Edition

The Liberty Professionals Chronicle

9 Jul 2035
From our football correspondent Steady

Market9 Jul 2035

Ashanti Gold come back empty-handed

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

Market9 Jul 2035

Abeiku Sulemana has said yes to New Edubiase United

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Liberty Professionals have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Market9 Jul 2035

Baba Annan hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Liberty Professionals can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets9 Jul 2035

Abeiku Asante will not be coming to Liberty Professionals

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at WAFA is saying, and nobody at Liberty Professionals is enjoying the guessing.

Transfer targets9 Jul 2035

Door shut on Emmanuel Appiah

Liberty Professionals asked and Great Olympics said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

The dugout9 Jul 2035

Isaac Mohammed frozen out at Liberty Professionals

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

The dugout9 Jul 2035

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.

Market9 Jul 2035

No place for Edmund Boakye in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Edmund Boakye has his answer from Liberty Professionals; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

The dugout9 Jul 2035

Jonathan Afful 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.

In brief