Rahman Abdul

Striker - Berekum Chelsea
6 Nov 2028
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Marked for Rahman Abdul

117 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

23 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad23 Oct 2028

Seth Paintsil 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.

Match21 Oct 2028

Michael Mensah Awuah’s goal not enough for Berekum Chelsea

Michael Mensah Awuah scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Ashanti Gold, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Player ratings23 Oct 2028

Michael Mensah Awuah in the eights

A performance of 8.74 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings23 Oct 2028

Nobody could get near Kofi Asante

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad23 Oct 2028

Samuel Amofa 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.

Squad23 Oct 2028

Michael Mensah Awuah finally opens his account

He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Berekum Chelsea have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.

Player ratings23 Oct 2028

Rahman Abdul leaves them behind him

Shots: 7. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.

Market23 Oct 2028

The Richmond Lamptey talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Berekum Chelsea know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Player ratings23 Oct 2028

Seidu Abubakar changes it off the bench

He was not in the side at half past three and he had settled it before five. Half an hour, and Berekum Chelsea had a different afternoon.

In brief

Back issues
105 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

31 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market31 Jul 2028

Berekum Chelsea sell their best player to Almería

$1.2M is a serious amount of money and it does not play centre-forward. Everybody in the dressing room knows who used to be looked at when it went wrong.

Squad31 Jul 2028

Tempers go at Berekum Chelsea

Seth Paintsil 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.

Squad31 Jul 2028

Berekum Chelsea count the cost of losing Emmanuel Sarpong

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

Squad31 Jul 2028

The manager makes an example of Samuel Mathias

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Market31 Jul 2028

The Richmond Lamptey question follows Berekum Chelsea around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Richmond Lamptey’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Squad31 Jul 2028

Rahman Abdul asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief

91 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

24 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom24 Apr 2028

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Berekum Chelsea

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Match24 Apr 2028

Berekum Chelsea sink to position 15

24 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Squad24 Apr 2028

Rahman Abdul says Berekum Chelsea went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

In brief

90 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

17 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad17 Apr 2028

Seth Paintsil 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.

Squad17 Apr 2028

No hiding place for Samuel Mathias

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Samuel Mathias, and the manager let it.

Market17 Apr 2028

The Seth Paintsil question follows Berekum Chelsea around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Seth Paintsil’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief

78 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

24 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad24 Jan 2028

Kingsley Braye: 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.

Market24 Jan 2028

Ebenezer Shamo 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.

Squad24 Jan 2028

Ebenezer Assifuah out for 41 days

The medical room confirms 41 days on the sidelines for Ebenezer Assifuah, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad24 Jan 2028

Tempers go at Berekum Chelsea

Richmond Lamptey 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.

Market24 Jan 2028

Great Olympics are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Berekum Chelsea will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Squad24 Jan 2028

Rahman Abdul signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Rahman Abdul and Berekum Chelsea agree another 3 years.

In brief

71 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

6 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings6 Dec 2027

Richmond Lamptey runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad6 Dec 2027

Seth Paintsil 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.

Squad6 Dec 2027

Rahman Abdul out for 16 days

The medical room confirms 16 days on the sidelines for Rahman Abdul, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad6 Dec 2027

The manager makes an example of Augustine Agyapong

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Match4 Dec 2027

BA All Stars take the points off Berekum Chelsea

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad6 Dec 2027

Ebenezer Shamo signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ebenezer Shamo and Berekum Chelsea agree another 3 years.

In brief

67 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

8 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market8 Nov 2027

Samuel Amofa 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 Berekum Chelsea can pretend not to have heard.

Squad8 Nov 2027

Seth Paintsil 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.

Squad8 Nov 2027

Berekum Chelsea lose Rahman Abdul

46 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad8 Nov 2027

The manager makes an example of Junaid Sait

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Match6 Nov 2027

A bad afternoon for Berekum Chelsea against Hasaacas

0‑1 to Hasaacas, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad8 Nov 2027

Kwesi Sorotu Badori signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Kwesi Sorotu Badori commits to Berekum Chelsea for another 5 years.

In brief

63 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

11 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match6 Oct 2027

Berekum Chelsea out of the cup

Great Olympics ended it 3‑3. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Market11 Oct 2027

Charles Agyemang 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 Berekum Chelsea can pretend not to have heard.

Squad11 Oct 2027

Vincent Klu Adjeu says Berekum Chelsea went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad11 Oct 2027

Berekum Chelsea count the cost of losing Rahman Abdul

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

Squad11 Oct 2027

Seth Paintsil 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.

Player ratings11 Oct 2027

One of those days for Vincent Klu Adjeu

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.92, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings11 Oct 2027

Richmond Lamptey runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings11 Oct 2027

Johnson Amuzu in the eights

A performance of 8.65 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings11 Oct 2027

One of those days for Emmanuel Sarpong

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.58, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

In brief

59 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

13 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market13 Sep 2027

Zorya 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.

Market13 Sep 2027

Charles Agyemang 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.

Squad13 Sep 2027

Rahman Abdul out for 112 days

The medical room confirms 112 days on the sidelines for Rahman Abdul, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad13 Sep 2027

Seth Paintsil 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.

Match11 Sep 2027

Berekum Chelsea find a way past Great Olympics

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

Player ratings13 Sep 2027

One of those days for Seth Paintsil

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.82, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings13 Sep 2027

Nobody could get near Richmond Lamptey

Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad13 Sep 2027

Seth Paintsil is off the mark for Berekum Chelsea

The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.

Player ratings13 Sep 2027

The one thing Johnson Amuzu could not do

Shots: 12, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.

In brief

55 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

16 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market16 Aug 2027

Berekum Chelsea break the bank for Amadu Abdulai

$150.0K. No player has ever cost Berekum Chelsea more, and expectation arrives with him.

Squad16 Aug 2027

Berekum Chelsea count the cost of losing Rahman Abdul

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

Squad16 Aug 2027

Seth Paintsil 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.

In brief

37 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

12 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad12 Apr 2027

Benjamin Awuah Acheampong keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Berekum Chelsea may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad12 Apr 2027

Tempers go at Berekum Chelsea

Seth Paintsil 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.

Squad12 Apr 2027

Berekum Chelsea count the cost of losing Emmanuel Sarpong

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

In brief

30 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

22 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match22 Feb 2027

Berekum Chelsea sink to position 16

11 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Market22 Feb 2027

Junaid Sait 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 Berekum Chelsea can pretend not to have heard.

Match20 Feb 2027

No end in sight to Berekum Chelsea's wait for a win

8 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Berekum Chelsea has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad22 Feb 2027

Seth Paintsil 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.

Player ratings22 Feb 2027

Khulumani Ndamane in the eights

A performance of 8.89 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings22 Feb 2027

Richmond Lamptey runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad22 Feb 2027

No hiding place for Rahman Abdul

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Rahman Abdul, and the manager let it.

Match20 Feb 2027

Berekum Chelsea and Hasaacas take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

Player ratings22 Feb 2027

A day to forget for Benjamin Awuah Acheampong

Marked 5.74, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.

In brief

29 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match13 Feb 2027

The wait goes on for Berekum Chelsea

7 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad15 Feb 2027

A one-man rearguard from Eric Ofori-Antwi

There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Player ratings15 Feb 2027

Nobody could get near Richmond Lamptey

Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad15 Feb 2027

Tempers go at Berekum Chelsea

Seth Paintsil 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.

Match13 Feb 2027

Heart of Lions take the points off Berekum Chelsea

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad15 Feb 2027

Michael Mensah Awuah left out for the big one

A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Michael Mensah Awuah will call it something else in private.

Squad15 Feb 2027

Samuel Tenedu 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.

Market15 Feb 2027

Richmond Lamptey linked with a move away

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

Player ratings15 Feb 2027

Off the pace: Rahman Abdul

A mark of 5.37 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.

In brief

28 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom8 Feb 2027

Berekum Chelsea put Abeiku Partey on notice

The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.

Market8 Feb 2027

Augustine Agyapong 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 Berekum Chelsea can pretend not to have heard.

Match6 Feb 2027

The wait goes on for Berekum Chelsea

6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Player ratings8 Feb 2027

Richmond Lamptey runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad8 Feb 2027

Seth Paintsil 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.

Match6 Feb 2027

A bad afternoon for Berekum Chelsea against Ashanti Gold

0‑1 to Ashanti Gold, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad8 Feb 2027

Morrison Anokye 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.

Boardroom8 Feb 2027

Berekum Chelsea pull $124.8K back off the table

The money that was there in the summer is not there now. Nobody upstairs calls this a change of ambition, and everybody downstairs reads it as one.

Market8 Feb 2027

The Seth Paintsil question follows Berekum Chelsea around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Seth Paintsil’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief

25 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad18 Jan 2027

Morrison Anokye says Berekum Chelsea went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad18 Jan 2027

Tempers go at Berekum Chelsea

Seth Paintsil 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.

Player ratings18 Jan 2027

Nobody could get near Richmond Lamptey

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match16 Jan 2027

A bad afternoon for Berekum Chelsea against Bechem United

1‑2 to Bechem United, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Player ratings18 Jan 2027

Khulumani Ndamane in the eights

A performance of 8.80 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad18 Jan 2027

No hiding place for Samuel Amofa

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Samuel Amofa, and the manager let it.

Player ratings18 Jan 2027

Rahman Abdul keeps on missing

Shots: 11, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.

Squad18 Jan 2027

Khulumani Ndamane has outgrown this division

There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Berekum Chelsea know it, and so does everybody who watches him.

Market18 Jan 2027

Richmond Lamptey linked with a move away

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

In brief

22 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match26 Dec 2026

No end in sight to Berekum Chelsea's wait for a win

16 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Berekum Chelsea has to find a result from somewhere.

Match28 Dec 2026

Berekum Chelsea are in real trouble now

Position 15, 8 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Market28 Dec 2026

Samuel Amofa asks to leave Berekum Chelsea

“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.

Squad28 Dec 2026

Rahman Abdul keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Berekum Chelsea may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad28 Dec 2026

Seth Paintsil 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.

Player ratings28 Dec 2026

Richmond Lamptey runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match26 Dec 2026

Ebenezer Assifuah’s goal not enough for Berekum Chelsea

Ebenezer Assifuah scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑3 to Great Olympics, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Player ratings28 Dec 2026

One of those days for Ebenezer Assifuah

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.84, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad28 Dec 2026

The manager makes an example of Junaid Sait

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief