23 Aug 2026
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Process
3 Edition

The Aduana Stars Gazette

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Abdulmajid Aminu turns down Aduana Stars

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Barau keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad

A falling-out at Aduana Stars

Stephen Badu and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets

Aduana Stars rebuffed over Daniel Baba

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. BA All Stars have kept their man, and Aduana Stars go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Words at Aduana Stars training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Daniel Awuni is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Transfer targets

Aduana Stars try to borrow Kutlwano Letlhaku

Mamelodi Sundowns have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Market

Stephen Kwakye told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Stephen Kwakye has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Aduana Stars.

In brief

Back issues
2 Edition

The Aduana Stars Gazette

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Percy Mabunda

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Aduana Stars have done the hard part with Ajax Cape Town, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Squad

Tempers go at Aduana Stars

Stephen Badu 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.

Market

Aduana Stars promote Patrick Paintsil from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Patrick Paintsil has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

One of our own: Francis Djiku joins the Aduana Stars first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Francis Djiku is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Aduana Stars promote Osman Kyereh from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Osman Kyereh has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

Jonathan Mensah steps up from the Aduana Stars academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Jonathan Mensah has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

In brief

1 Edition

The Aduana Stars Gazette

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Stephen Amankona signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Stephen Amankona and Aduana Stars agree another 4 years.

Squad

Stephen Badu 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 Aduana Stars this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Aduana Stars lose Sam Adams

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

Squad

A row about effort at Aduana Stars

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Daouda Sidibé was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market

Still no ink between Aduana Stars and Alex Boakye

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Aduana Stars, another week without a signature from Alex Boakye.

Market

49 months and counting on Stephen Amankona

Still no offer on the table, and Stephen Amankona’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

Transfer targets

Aduana Stars ask about Thato Sibiya

A loan enquiry to Mamelodi Sundowns: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Transfer targets

Aduana Stars try to borrow Abdulmajid Aminu

Barau have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Transfer targets

Aduana Stars try to borrow Percy Mabunda

Ajax Cape Town have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

In brief