$440.0K is a serious amount of money and it does not play centre-forward. Everybody in the dressing room knows who used to be looked at when it went wrong.
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Seidu Basit reports back to Great Olympics with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Great Olympics is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Gladson Awako has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Great Olympics, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Elvis Manu has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
The name of Phiwokuhle Mjolo has come up in conversations Great Olympics were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Elvis Manu has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
A new face in his position, and Franck Kom suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Great Olympics have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
The name of Phiwokuhle Mjolo has come up in conversations Great Olympics were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Mohammed Fatau has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Great Olympics, and both men came out saying it was fine.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Great Olympics, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Elvis Manu has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
He came through the session, took part in everything and finished it smiling. Great Olympics will not rush him, and he will spend the next fortnight trying to rush them.
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Mohammed Fatau has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Franck Kom has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
He came through the session, took part in everything and finished it smiling. Great Olympics will not rush him, and he will spend the next fortnight trying to rush them.
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Elvis Manu has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Great Olympics, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Seidu Basit has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Elvis Manu has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
It is a strip of cloth and it decides nothing on a Saturday. It still tells the dressing room exactly whose opinion the manager values, which is the whole point of it.
A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.
A new face in his position, and Gladson Awako suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Great Olympics have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
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.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Great Olympics have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
At 32 he has made the position his own, and the man he took it from has to find something to say about it. Great Olympics have a decision that made itself.
A 0-3 beating by Medeama was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
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The boos come down from three sides
“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 5 of the 25 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.
0-4 to WAFA, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
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.
Asked to play a role that is not his, or taken off before the hour once too often — Ebenezer Assifuah has let it be known that he does not like the way Great Olympics are using him. Managers hear this long before the press does.
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. William Apenteng may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Great Olympics have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Great Olympics has been clear about where William Apenteng stands, which is more than many ever get.
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Seidu Ismaila knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Wa All Stars defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Seidu Ismaila: 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 6 of the 22 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Great Olympics have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Asked to play a role that is not his, or taken off before the hour once too often — Ebenezer Assifuah has let it be known that he does not like the way Great Olympics are using him. Managers hear this long before the press does.
Abdul Addo is 16, and Great Olympics have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
He is 16, and nobody at Great Olympics signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
He is 16, and nobody at Great Olympics signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
He is 16, and nobody at Great Olympics signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
A season-long audition: Rivers United still own him, but the shirt and the minutes are Great Olympics's to give. A loan is a bet both clubs believe they are winning.
The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Kelvin Obeng keeps the shirt for now, at Great Olympics's convenience rather than his own.
The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Michael Acquaye plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.