Daniel Stanek

Defensive Midfielder - Asante Kotoko
23 Sep 2046
Sunday
Process

Marked for Daniel Stanek

1028 Edition

The Asante Kotoko Post

9 Apr 2046
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Lukas Duda is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Asante Kotoko is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Tempers go at Asante Kotoko

Enoch Dzeble 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

Daniel Stanek signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Daniel Stanek commits to Asante Kotoko for another 4 years.

In brief

Back issues
1022 Edition

The Asante Kotoko Post

26 Feb 2046
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Nana Nuhu damages knee ligaments — 37 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 37 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.

Match

Asante Kotoko make home a hard place to visit

14 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Market

Only the photograph left for Evidence Mphela

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Evidence Mphela will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Asante Kotoko the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Thamsanqa Dala is carrying Asante Kotoko

15 goals and a season average of 7.22. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Squad

Bakary Haidara 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 Asante Kotoko this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Asante Kotoko count the cost of losing Daniel Stanek

33 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Bakary Haidara

7.56, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Asante Kotoko had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

Player ratings

Lebogang Hlatshwayo 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

Matvey Suvorov 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.

In brief