From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match19 Dec 2026
2 in front and in complete control, and it finished with Medeama the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that Berekum Chelsea will enjoy reviewing.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
“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.
Match19 Dec 2026
4 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Enock Otoo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.20, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Match19 Dec 2026
A 2‑2 draw with Medeama leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
“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.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Osman Annan: “We have to be better”
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 2‑2 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
Squad21 Dec 2026
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.
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Crisis
Squad14 Dec 2026
Enock Otoo 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.
Match12 Dec 2026
WAFA left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Kofi Patric Ansu 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 dugout14 Dec 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑2 Osman Annan left the room before anybody could ask which.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Looking ahead14 Dec 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Medeama in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Rahman Abdul 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.
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Crisis
Squad7 Dec 2026
Enock Otoo 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.
Match5 Dec 2026
Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at Berekum Chelsea training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Morgan Dala 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 dugout7 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Edwin Asamoah, and the manager let it.
Squad7 Dec 2026
The medical room confirms 56 days on the sidelines for Adu Emmanuel, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Seidu Abubakar commits to Berekum Chelsea for another 3 years.
Boardroom7 Dec 2026
The board have answered with money instead of encouragement, which is the only answer a manager ever wants. Spending it well is now entirely his problem.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Market7 Dec 2026
Adu Emmanuel 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 Adu Emmanuel stands, which is more than many ever get.
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Steady
Match30 Nov 2026
Berekum Chelsea refuse to drop out of the race
Position 3, 20 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Berekum Chelsea may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Enock Otoo and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Eric Ofori-Antwi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match28 Nov 2026
0‑1 to Hasaacas, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad30 Nov 2026
100 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Osman Annan left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mohammed Seidu, and the manager let it.
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Upbeat
Match23 Nov 2026
First, on 20 points. The table is a fact and a fact is allowed to be enjoyed, which is as far as anybody at the club is prepared to go in public.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Enock Otoo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Ninety minutes of Seidu Abubakar at his very best
Marked 8.21. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Berekum Chelsea.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Kofi Patric Ansu 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 dugout23 Nov 2026
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Osman Annan, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Marvin Owusu 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 Nov 2026
Samuel Tenedu has had enough of the bench
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Berekum Chelsea will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Charles Agyemang 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.
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Upbeat
Squad16 Nov 2026
Enock Otoo 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at Berekum Chelsea training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Eric Ofori-Antwi 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 dugout16 Nov 2026
Something was said to Kofi Patric Ansu and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
Market16 Nov 2026
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Berekum Chelsea has been clear about where Emmanuel Sarpong stands, which is more than many ever get.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Yaw Dankwah 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.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Nana Kwame knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Berekum Chelsea, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Upbeat
Squad9 Nov 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Morgan Dala 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Eric Ofori-Antwi 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 dugout9 Nov 2026
“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.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Something was said to Morgan Dala and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Osman Annan after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 13. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A booking nobody needed, on a night the game was already won. Berekum Chelsea lose a player for the most avoidable reason there is.
Match7 Nov 2026
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Ashanti Gold defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
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Upbeat
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Enock Otoo beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 28. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Enock Otoo and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match31 Oct 2026
0‑1 to New Edubiase United, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Match31 Oct 2026
After 5 games, Berekum Chelsea finally taste it again
The first defeat in 5 matches. The manager will say it had to come; the dressing room will say it did not have to come against New Edubiase United; the supporters will say both, in that order, all week.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Kofi Patric Ansu 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 dugout2 Nov 2026
“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.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Squad2 Nov 2026
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Johnson Amuzu has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Edwin Asamoah moves up the pecking order
Nothing is announced when this happens and everybody knows. He is a bigger part of the plan at Berekum Chelsea than he was a month ago, and the training ground worked that out before the team sheet said so.
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Triumph
Squad26 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match24 Oct 2026
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Berekum Chelsea have 5 straight wins of it.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Enock Otoo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Eric Ofori-Antwi 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 terraces26 Oct 2026
He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Berekum Chelsea are still strangers to each other
6 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Osman Annan on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
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Triumph
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
A brace, and Rahman Abdul takes the afternoon — 9.09
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Rahman Abdul provided it, and the 9.09 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
No sign of nerves from Vincent Klu Adjeu at 18 — 7.74
The hardest thing about being 18 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Vincent Klu Adjeu did not need any: 7.74, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Match17 Oct 2026
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Berekum Chelsea have 4 straight wins of it.
Squad19 Oct 2026
At 20 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Enock Otoo 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Eric Ofori-Antwi 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 terraces19 Oct 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Nana Kwame 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.
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Upbeat
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Berekum Chelsea may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Enock Otoo 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 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Fataho Nerie is 17, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Kofi Patric Ansu was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
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Triumph
Squad5 Oct 2026
8 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
A brace, and Morgan Dala takes the afternoon — 8.72
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Morgan Dala provided it, and the 8.72 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Edmund Partey breaks a bone — 14 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 14 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Enock Otoo and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Berekum Chelsea training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Eric Ofori-Antwi 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
It finished 2‑0, and it was Morgan Dala’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Berekum Chelsea.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Osman Annan on a 2‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Marvin Owusu, and the manager let it.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.
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Upbeat
Squad28 Sep 2026
21 days out for Edmund Partey after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Berekum Chelsea will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Enock Otoo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Eric Ofori-Antwi 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Morgan Dala’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Berekum Chelsea.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Johnson Amuzu
“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 ratings28 Sep 2026
Marked 7.67 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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Enock Otoo
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Berekum Chelsea are still strangers to each other
6 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Osman Annan could afford to be generous.
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Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
29 days out for Edmund Partey after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Berekum Chelsea will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Squad21 Sep 2026
At 20 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Johnson Amuzu 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Great Olympics leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Osman Annan was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Berekum Chelsea dressing room was either.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
The one thing Enock Otoo could not do
Shots: 10, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Shots: 6, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Chances created: 9. Somebody has to open a door before anybody can walk through it, and he spent the afternoon opening doors.
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Triumph
Squad14 Sep 2026
10 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Edmund Partey breaks a bone — 36 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 36 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.30, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Enock Otoo 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Morgan Dala. 3‑1 against Wa All Stars, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Berekum Chelsea asked and Barau said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Eric Ofori-Antwi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The terraces14 Sep 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Enock Otoo 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.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Samuel Tenedu, and the manager let it.
In brief
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The terraces
The away end at Wa All Stars goes home happy
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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Looking ahead
Berekum Chelsea take on the side everybody is chasing
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market7 Sep 2026
“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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 19 arrived, 1 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Enock Otoo and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Eric Ofori-Antwi 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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Berekum Chelsea say no to the training-ground money
The plan went upstairs and came back down. Nothing about that will make a headline anywhere else, and everybody who works at the training ground will remember it for years.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Not a new contract, not a new number: a new place in the manager’s thinking, which is the only promotion in football that actually matters. Walid Fuseini has moved up it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Solomon Omale arrived with a record at a bigger club than this one, and the room has treated him accordingly. The young ones watch him train; the senior ones watch to see whether it lasts.
Market7 Sep 2026
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Ahmed Adams leaves Berekum Chelsea the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
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Steady
Market31 Aug 2026
“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.
Market31 Aug 2026
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.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
No thanks: Khama Tau rejects the move
Berekum Chelsea had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Ajax Cape Town, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Enock Otoo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Berekum Chelsea training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kofi Patric Ansu 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 targets31 Aug 2026
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 targets31 Aug 2026
A loan move for Morgan Dala is in the works
Berekum Chelsea have made the call to Black Aces. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
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Steady
Squad24 Aug 2026
A fracture rules Edmund Partey out for 15 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Berekum Chelsea have done the hard part with Wa All Stars, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Enock Otoo 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Bendel Insurance have kept their man, and Berekum Chelsea go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Eric Ofori-Antwi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
22 days out for Edmund Partey after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Berekum Chelsea will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market17 Aug 2026
The offer from BA All Stars for Edwin Asamoah 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Berekum Chelsea have done the hard part with Mamelodi Sundowns, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Enock Otoo 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Ikorodu City have kept their man, and Berekum Chelsea go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market17 Aug 2026
“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.
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Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
29 days out for Edmund Partey after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Berekum Chelsea will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market10 Aug 2026
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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Enock Otoo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Berekum Chelsea asked and Rivers United said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Joseph Essien 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ernest Appiah is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Eric Ofori-Antwi 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Samuel Tenedu 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Berekum Chelsea, another week without a signature from Enock Otoo.
Market3 Aug 2026
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.