Berekum Chelsea U18

Ghanaian Premier League U18
13 Jun 2027
Sunday
Process
45 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

7 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Marvin Owusu

69 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Berekum Chelsea lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

Emmanuel Sarpong breaks a bone — 56 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 56 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

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 The request is on a desk at Berekum Chelsea, and it is not being withdrawn.

In brief

Back issues
44 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

31 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Marvin Owusu

76 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Berekum Chelsea lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

A fracture rules Emmanuel Sarpong out for 64 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Berekum Chelsea will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

Suleiman Abdullahi 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

43 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

24 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Marvin Owusu

83 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Berekum Chelsea lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

A fracture rules Emmanuel Sarpong out for 71 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Berekum Chelsea will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

Silas Nwankwo 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.

In brief

42 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

17 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Marvin Owusu

90 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Berekum Chelsea lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

A fracture rules Emmanuel Sarpong out for 78 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Berekum Chelsea will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Ebenezer Shamo is on his way

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

In brief

41 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

10 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Marvin Owusu

97 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Berekum Chelsea lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

A fracture rules Emmanuel Sarpong out for 87 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Berekum Chelsea will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

Tempers go at Berekum Chelsea

Suleiman Abdullahi 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.

In brief

40 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

3 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Marvin Owusu

104 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Berekum Chelsea lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

A fracture rules Emmanuel Sarpong out for 94 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Berekum Chelsea will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

Suleiman Abdullahi 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

39 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

26 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Marvin Owusu

111 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Berekum Chelsea lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

Emmanuel Sarpong breaks a bone — 102 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 102 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Tempers go at Berekum Chelsea

Suleiman Abdullahi 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.

In brief

38 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

19 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Marvin Owusu damages knee ligaments — 118 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 118 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.

Squad

Kennedy Mensah 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.

Market

Only the photograph left for Ebenezer Shamo

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ebenezer Shamo will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Berekum Chelsea the goodbyes have quietly begun.

In brief

37 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

12 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Marvin Owusu damages knee ligaments — 125 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 125 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.

Squad

Samuel Amofa 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.

Squad

Suleiman Abdullahi 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

36 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

5 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Tempers go at Berekum Chelsea

Suleiman Abdullahi 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

Words at Berekum Chelsea training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Johnson Amuzu 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Johnson Amuzu

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

In brief

35 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

29 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Nicholas Ablido

Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Suleiman Abdullahi 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.

Squad

Words at Berekum Chelsea training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Edwin Asamoah 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.

Squad

The team sheet said everything about Kolawole Sheriff

Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Kolawole Sheriff.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Suleiman Abdullahi

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

Squad

Berekum Chelsea pick somebody else ahead of Kolawole Sheriff

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

In brief

34 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

22 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Berekum Chelsea say no — this time

The offer from Fjolnir for Johnson Amuzu was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Market

Only the photograph left for Ebenezer Shamo

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ebenezer Shamo will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Berekum Chelsea the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Tempers go at Berekum Chelsea

Suleiman Abdullahi 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

Words at Berekum Chelsea training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Johnson Amuzu 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.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Nicholas Ablido

At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match

Evans Mensah the difference as Berekum Chelsea beat BA All Stars

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Evans Mensah. 1‑0 against BA All Stars, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Evans Mensah at his very best

Marked 8.26. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Berekum Chelsea.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Michael Mensah Awuah

“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.

Squad

Evans Mensah is carrying Berekum Chelsea

7 goals and a season average of 7.20. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

In brief

33 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

15 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

A hiding for Berekum Chelsea

Beaten 0‑3 by Medeama, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Player ratings

Nicholas Ablido runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Suleiman Abdullahi 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.

Match

3 matches without a goal for Berekum Chelsea

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Squad

Johnson Amuzu falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad

No hiding place for Bakr El Helali

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

In brief

32 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

8 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Suleiman Abdullahi runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 32. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Bakr El Helali signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Bakr El Helali commits to Berekum Chelsea for another 2 years.

Match

Whatever happens, Berekum Chelsea do not lose

7 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Squad

Tempers go at Berekum Chelsea

Suleiman Abdullahi 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

The manager makes an example of Silas Nwankwo

“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.

Squad

Edwin Asamoah falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

In brief

31 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

1 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Johnson Amuzu 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.

Squad

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.

Player ratings

Suleiman Abdullahi runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Bakr El Helali wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Berekum Chelsea know it.

Squad

Bakr El Helali wants to finish where he started

Every long career reaches the week the player starts thinking about the last one. He would like it to be at the club that first put him on a pitch, and Berekum Chelsea now know that too.

Squad

Suleiman Abdullahi 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

30 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

22 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Johnson Amuzu scores twice — 8.63

Two goals and a mark of 8.63 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Suleiman Abdullahi

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

Match

Nobody wants to play Berekum Chelsea right now

4 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.

Market

Only the photograph left for Ebenezer Shamo

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ebenezer Shamo will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Berekum Chelsea the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Tempers go at Berekum Chelsea

Suleiman Abdullahi 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

Words at Berekum Chelsea training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Johnson Amuzu 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.

Match

Johnson Amuzu sends Berekum Chelsea past Hasaacas

It finished 2‑0, and it was Johnson Amuzu’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Berekum Chelsea.

Squad

Thomas Ayew 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.

Squad

When it matters, Seidu Abubakar plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

In brief

29 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Suleiman Abdullahi runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 38. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Johnson Amuzu settles it late for Berekum Chelsea

The 89th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and Johnson Amuzu decided nobody was going anywhere. Heart of Lions had no time left to answer.

Match

Berekum Chelsea cannot stop winning

3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Squad

Suleiman Abdullahi 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.

The terraces

Berekum Chelsea supporters have found a favourite in Johnson Amuzu

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Johnson Amuzu 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.

Match

Berekum Chelsea find a way past Heart of Lions

Heart of Lions made Berekum Chelsea work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

Johnson Amuzu takes the honours

Marked 7.90 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Berekum Chelsea had the best player on the pitch.

Squad

Words at Berekum Chelsea training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Samuel Amofa 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.

Squad

Morrison Anokye 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; Morrison Anokye will call it something else in private.

In brief

28 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Samuel Tenedu 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.

Squad

Ahmed Adams: 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Berekum Chelsea

Suleiman Abdullahi 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

Words at Berekum Chelsea training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Johnson Amuzu 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.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Nicholas Ablido

At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Suleiman Abdullahi

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

Match

Berekum Chelsea get the job done against Ashanti Gold

A 1‑0 win over Ashanti Gold, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings

Nicholas Ablido stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.98 on the card, and the Berekum Chelsea support went home talking about one name.

Squad

Berekum Chelsea pick somebody else ahead of Silas Nwankwo

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

In brief

27 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Johnson Amuzu 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.

Player ratings

Both of them Suleiman Abdullahi's — 8.56

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.56, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad

Suleiman Abdullahi 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.

Match

Berekum Chelsea get the job done against New Edubiase United

A 3‑1 win over New Edubiase United, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

Johnson Amuzu falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Evans Mensah at his very best

Marked 8.47. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Berekum Chelsea.

Player ratings

Nicholas Ablido runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Berekum Chelsea keep their word to Johnson Amuzu

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

Squad

Suleiman Abdullahi named player of the week

One weekend, judged against everybody else's. Suleiman Abdullahi has come out on top of it, and for most footballers a weekly award is the only silverware a career ever produces.

In brief

26 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

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.

Market

Ebenezer Shamo has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Berekum Chelsea they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Tempers go at Berekum Chelsea

Suleiman Abdullahi 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.

Match

Berekum Chelsea and Inter Allies 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.

Squad

Yaw Dankwah falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad

A promise honoured for Seidu Abubakar

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Berekum Chelsea told Seidu Abubakar something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

In brief

25 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Nicholas Ablido

Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Suleiman Abdullahi 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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Silas Nwankwo

“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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Berekum Chelsea against Bechem United

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

Squad

Johnson Amuzu falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad

Suleiman Abdullahi has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Berekum Chelsea will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief

24 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Tempers go at Berekum Chelsea

Suleiman Abdullahi 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

Words at Berekum Chelsea training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Johnson Amuzu 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.

Squad

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.

Squad

Kolawole Sheriff dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

Market

Samuel Tenedu told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Samuel Tenedu has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Berekum Chelsea.

Market

Wa All Stars 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.

In brief

23 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

The small margins put Berekum Chelsea out

Out, 0‑2 to Ashanti Gold, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Squad

Thomas Ayew 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Evans Mensah

Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Suleiman Abdullahi 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.

Match

Berekum Chelsea get the job done against Liberty Professionals

A 2‑0 win over Liberty Professionals, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Kolawole Sheriff

“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.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Johnson Amuzu at his very best

Marked 8.55. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Berekum Chelsea.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Suleiman Abdullahi

Marked 8.17 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Squad

Silas Nwankwo dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

In brief

22 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Suleiman Abdullahi runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 28. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Tempers go at Berekum Chelsea

Suleiman Abdullahi 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

Words at Berekum Chelsea training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Johnson Amuzu 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.

In brief

21 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Silas Nwankwo runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 52. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

A hiding for Berekum Chelsea

Beaten 1‑5 by Wa All Stars, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Squad

A fracture rules Charles Agyemang out for 17 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Berekum Chelsea will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

Suleiman Abdullahi 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.

Match

Nobody could stop scoring

6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Berekum Chelsea and Wa All Stars in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

Squad

No hiding place for Augustine Agyapong

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

In brief

20 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Charles Agyemang out for 24 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Berekum Chelsea will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Player ratings

Suleiman Abdullahi runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 29. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Tempers go at Berekum Chelsea

Suleiman Abdullahi 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.

Match

Berekum Chelsea find a way past Aduana Stars

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

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Johnson Amuzu

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Evans Mensah at his very best

Marked 8.46. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Berekum Chelsea.

In brief

19 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Charles Agyemang breaks a bone — 32 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 32 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

4 matches without a win for Berekum Chelsea

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Berekum Chelsea are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Suleiman Abdullahi 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 ratings

Nicholas Ablido runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Suleiman Abdullahi at his very best

Marked 8.14. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Berekum Chelsea.

Squad

Johnson Amuzu falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Match

Suleiman Abdullahi answers BA All Stars immediately

Conceding is one thing; the response is what tells you about a dressing room. Suleiman Abdullahi had Berekum Chelsea level again within 1 minutes, and BA All Stars never got to play with a lead at all.

Squad

Berekum Chelsea pick somebody else ahead of Kolawole Sheriff

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

Match

Berekum Chelsea and BA All Stars 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.

In brief

18 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A fracture rules Charles Agyemang out for 40 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Berekum Chelsea will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

Tempers go at Berekum Chelsea

Suleiman Abdullahi 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.

Match

Berekum Chelsea cannot find the net

3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

In brief

17 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Nowhere to hide for Berekum Chelsea

0‑3 against WAFA, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Squad

A fracture rules Charles Agyemang out for 47 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Berekum Chelsea will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

Eric Ofori-Antwi keeps Berekum Chelsea in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

Suleiman Abdullahi 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Bakr El Helali

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

Player ratings

Suleiman Abdullahi runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

16 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Charles Agyemang out for 54 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Berekum Chelsea will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

Tempers go at Berekum Chelsea

Suleiman Abdullahi 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.

Match

Hearts of Oak take the points off Berekum Chelsea

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

In brief

15 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A fracture rules Charles Agyemang out for 63 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Berekum Chelsea will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Player ratings

Evans Mensah scores twice — 8.58

Two goals and a mark of 8.58 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Match

7 unbeaten for Berekum Chelsea

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation Berekum Chelsea did not have in the autumn.

Squad

Suleiman Abdullahi 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.

Match

Berekum Chelsea get the job done against Hasaacas

A 2‑1 win over Hasaacas, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Kolawole Sheriff

“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.

Player ratings

Suleiman Abdullahi in the eights

A performance of 8.11 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad

Morrison Anokye falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Nicholas Ablido

Successful dribbles: 5. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

14 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Charles Agyemang breaks a bone — 71 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 71 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Samuel Tenedu 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Suleiman Abdullahi

Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Tempers go at Berekum Chelsea

Suleiman Abdullahi 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.

Match

6 unbeaten for Berekum Chelsea

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Berekum Chelsea did not have in the autumn.

Squad

Samuel Amofa falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

In brief

13 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Charles Agyemang breaks a bone — 78 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 78 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Evans Mensah

Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Suleiman Abdullahi 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

12 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Charles Agyemang breaks a bone — 85 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 85 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

Nobody wants to play Berekum Chelsea right now

3 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Berekum Chelsea

Suleiman Abdullahi 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.

Match

Berekum Chelsea see off New Edubiase United

Three points for Berekum Chelsea, 1‑0 the final word against New Edubiase United in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

Samuel Amofa falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad

No hiding place for Yaw Dankwah

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

In brief

11 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Cup progress for Berekum Chelsea

A 2‑1 win over Bechem United, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Squad

Charles Agyemang breaks a bone — 92 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 92 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings

Nicholas Ablido, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.99

A mark of 7.99 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad

Suleiman Abdullahi 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 ratings

Seidu Abubakar 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.

Match

Berekum Chelsea see off Inter Allies

Three points for Berekum Chelsea, 2‑1 the final word against Inter Allies in a contest settled by the finer margins.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Nicholas Ablido

At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Silas Nwankwo

“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.

Player ratings

Rahman Abdul in the eights

A performance of 8.13 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

In brief

10 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Charles Agyemang breaks a bone — 99 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 99 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Nicholas Ablido

Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Tempers go at Berekum Chelsea

Suleiman Abdullahi 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

Mohammed Seidu is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

Words at Berekum Chelsea training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Johnson Amuzu 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.

Market

Talks stall between Berekum Chelsea and Kolawole Sheriff

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

In brief

9 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Suleiman Abdullahi runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 33. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Real improvement from Augustine Agyapong at Berekum Chelsea

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Augustine Agyapong is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Suleiman Abdullahi 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.

Squad

Bakr El Helali 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Berekum Chelsea against Asante Kotoko

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

Squad

Words at Berekum Chelsea training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Samuel Amofa 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.

In brief

8 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Handsome Surveyor, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.69

A mark of 7.69 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Player ratings

Silas Nwankwo has a hand in both — 7.90

One scored and one made, which is a different afternoon from scoring twice and an easier one to overlook. Marked 7.90, and involved in 2 of his side's goals.

Squad

Tempers go at Berekum Chelsea

Suleiman Abdullahi 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.

Match

6 goals as Berekum Chelsea and Liberty Professionals go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Berekum Chelsea and Liberty Professionals, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Squad

Yaw Dankwah falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad

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.

In brief

7 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Suleiman Abdullahi runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Suleiman Abdullahi 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.

Squad

Johnson Amuzu falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

The terraces

Berekum Chelsea supporters have found a favourite in Johnson Amuzu

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Johnson Amuzu 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.

Match

Johnson Amuzu the difference as Berekum Chelsea beat Great Olympics

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Johnson Amuzu. 1‑0 against Great Olympics, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Johnson Amuzu

A mark of 7.78, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

Squad

9 new faces, and Berekum Chelsea are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

Squad

Silas Nwankwo dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

Player ratings

Morrison Anokye spends the afternoon fouling

Fouls conceded: 9. He was booked, he was fortunate not to be booked twice, and the referee had run out of patience long before the end.

In brief

6 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

A hiding for Berekum Chelsea

Beaten 0‑4 by Wa All Stars, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Squad

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.

Market

Benjamin Abaidoo 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.

Player ratings

Suleiman Abdullahi runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Tempers go at Berekum Chelsea

Suleiman Abdullahi 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.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Berekum Chelsea

5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Market

Berekum Chelsea promote Emmanuel Adjei from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Emmanuel Adjei 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

Kwame Bukari steps up from the Berekum Chelsea academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Kwame Bukari 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.

Market

Berekum Chelsea promote Abeiku Acquah from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Abeiku Acquah 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.

In brief

5 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Ahmed Adams 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.

Squad

Suleiman Abdullahi 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.

Squad

Words at Berekum Chelsea training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yaw Dankwah 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.

In brief

4 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Ebenezer Shamo 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Berekum Chelsea

Suleiman Abdullahi 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

Words at Berekum Chelsea training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Johnson Amuzu 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.

Market

Erick Flores brings the grey hairs Berekum Chelsea lacked

At 37, he has seen every situation this season can produce, twice. The legs will be managed; the head is the purchase.

Squad

Erick Flores still has not settled

A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Berekum Chelsea would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.

Squad

Suleiman Abdullahi has company in his position

The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Suleiman Abdullahi keeps the shirt for now, at Berekum Chelsea's convenience rather than his own.

In brief

3 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Suleiman Abdullahi 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.

Squad

Words at Berekum Chelsea training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Samuel Amofa 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.

Squad

This league is too small for Bakr El Helali

He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Berekum Chelsea will not keep him by pretending otherwise.

In brief

2 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Suleiman Abdullahi 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.

Squad

Morrison Anokye stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Morrison Anokye and Berekum Chelsea agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Words at Berekum Chelsea training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yaw Dankwah 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.

Squad

Rahman Abdul 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.

Market

Berekum Chelsea and Edwin Asamoah are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Market

The clock runs on Eric Ofori-Antwi's contract

36 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.

In brief

1 Edition

The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Augustine Agyapong stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Augustine Agyapong and Berekum Chelsea agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Tempers go at Berekum Chelsea

Augustine Agyapong 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

Words at Berekum Chelsea training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Johnson Amuzu 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.

Market

Rahman Abdul is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Berekum Chelsea has been clear about where Rahman Abdul stands, which is more than many ever get.

Market

Talks stall between Berekum Chelsea and Emmanuel Sarpong

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

Market

49 months and counting on Augustine Agyapong

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

In brief