28 Oct 2027
Thursday
Process
65 Edition

The WAFA Post

25 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

The dugout

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Squad

Words exchanged at WAFA

Felix Boakye 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for WAFA against Asante Kotoko

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

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Francis Afful

“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

Kwame Wakaso in the eights

A performance of 8.09 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

The dugout

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 Baba Nuhu left the room before anybody could ask which.

Squad

Amos Paintsil 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 dugout

WAFA pick somebody else ahead of Amos Paintsil

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.

Market

The Felix Boakye question follows WAFA around

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

In brief

Back issues
64 Edition

The WAFA Post

18 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

A brace, and Kwame Wakaso takes the afternoon — 9.39

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Kwame Wakaso provided it, and the 9.39 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Match

The drought breaks for WAFA

11 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Liberty Professionals were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.

The dugout

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Squad

Tempers go at WAFA

Felix Boakye 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

WAFA 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.

The dugout

Massawudu Inusah 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

WAFA settle it inside twenty minutes

2 goals before the ground had finished arriving. Liberty Professionals spent the rest of the afternoon playing a match that had already been decided, and everybody in the stadium knew it.

Squad

A row about effort at WAFA

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

Loan watch

Nana Wakaso counts the days

“I watch every WAFA game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at BA All Stars runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

In brief

63 Edition

The WAFA Post

11 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

11 matches without a win for WAFA

The run now stands at 11, and the questions being asked around WAFA are no longer polite ones.

Match

WAFA bow out of the cup

Aduana Stars go through and WAFA go home, 0‑3 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Market

Kamaldeen Kyereh 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 WAFA, and it is not being withdrawn.

The terraces

A cup hiding at Aduana Stars leaves WAFA explaining themselves

0-3, and long before the end the away end had switched from encouragement to something considerably more pointed. Nobody rings a phone-in about losing narrowly.

Squad

Osei Prince stands alone

6 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.

Squad

A falling-out at WAFA

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

Match

WAFA come up short against Great Olympics

Great Olympics left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

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The dugout

The manager makes an example of Osei Prince

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

In brief

  • Squad Words at WAFA training over how hard people work
  • Squad Osman Mensah signs a new deal
  • Boardroom Doors closed at WAFA
62 Edition

The WAFA Post

4 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

The wait goes on for WAFA

9 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.

Squad

Real improvement from Daniel Nuhu at WAFA

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

Squad

Yaw Nuhu 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 WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

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Player ratings

Kwame Wakaso in the eights

A performance of 8.16 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad

A row about effort at WAFA

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

Match

WAFA caught on 92 minutes

The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Wa All Stars scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.

Player ratings

Felix Boakye was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 15. 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.

Match

Kwame Wakaso rescues a point for WAFA

It needed Kwame Wakaso to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Wa All Stars, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

In brief

61 Edition

The WAFA Post

27 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

A 2-goal lead gone for WAFA

It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. Aduana Stars kept coming because nothing stopped them, and WAFA will be asked about the last half hour all week.

Match

8 matches without a win for WAFA

The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around WAFA are no longer polite ones.

Player ratings

A brace, and Felix Boakye takes the afternoon — 8.71

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Felix Boakye provided it, and the 8.71 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

The dugout

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Squad

Tempers go at WAFA

Yaw Nuhu 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

Real improvement from Jonathan Addo at WAFA

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Jonathan Addo is 15, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

A late step up for David Essien

At 24 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

The terraces

One of their own: Felix Boakye

He is 23 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.

Squad

Words at WAFA training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Joseph Mensah 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

60 Edition

The WAFA Post

20 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

No end in sight to WAFA's wait for a win

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

Squad

Real improvement from Edmund Baba at WAFA

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Edmund Baba is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

The dugout

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Squad

Tempers go at WAFA

Felix Boakye 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

A late step up for Yaw Nuhu

At 30 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

Squad

Joseph Mensah signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Joseph Mensah commits to WAFA for another 4 years.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Edmund Baba

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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Massawudu Inusah

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

Loan watch

Nana Wakaso wants to come home

“I did not go to BA All Stars to sit and watch. I want to come back to WAFA and fight for my place.” 2 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.

In brief

59 Edition

The WAFA Post

13 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Kamaldeen Kyereh 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 WAFA can pretend not to have heard.

Match

No end in sight to WAFA's wait for a win

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

Squad

Yakubu Dogo 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

Felix Boakye 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 WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Albert Sulemana has improved at 28, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 4 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

The dugout

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Transfer targets

Frank Amankwah stays at Bechem United as time runs out

A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. WAFA will try again when the window opens; Bechem United may not be selling by then.

Squad

Words at WAFA training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Edmund Baba 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.

Player ratings

Albert Sulemana takes the honours

Marked 7.77 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, WAFA had the best player on the pitch.

In brief

58 Edition

The WAFA Post

6 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Francis Afful breaks a bone — 17 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 17 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

5 matches without a win for WAFA

The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around WAFA are no longer polite ones.

Boardroom

Deadline passes with 10 signed and 7 gone

That is the business done at WAFA until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Squad

The step up is real for Daniel Nuhu

At 22 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.

Squad

Francis Afful signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Francis Afful and WAFA agree another 2 years.

Market

As if he never left: Samuel Atiemo returns

Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Samuel Atiemo is a WAFA player again, and the town has its story of the summer.

Squad

A falling-out at WAFA

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

Boardroom

Graduation day at WAFA

6 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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Kabu Agyemang Raymond

WAFA asked and Bechem 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.

In brief

57 Edition

The WAFA Post

30 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

WAFA make Osei Prince the dearest name in their history

$72.0K. Fees like that buy a footballer and rent a debate: every touch will be measured against the number for a season at least.

Squad

A fracture rules Francis Afful out for 24 days

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

Squad

Real improvement from Felix Boakye at WAFA

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Felix Boakye is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

The dugout

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Squad

Words exchanged at WAFA

Felix Boakye 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.

Squad

A late step up for Kamaldeen Kyereh

At 25 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 4 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

The terraces

$72.0K for Osei Prince, and WAFA supporters approve

Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Osei Prince from Aduana Stars for $72.0K, and a ticket office having a very good morning.

Transfer targets

WAFA rebuffed over Frank Amankwah

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

The dugout

Edmund Baba 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 WAFA, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

56 Edition

The WAFA Post

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

$43.0K — a new record at WAFA

No footballer has ever cost this club more, and the number will be read out every time he misplaces a pass for the next two years.

Squad

Francis Afful breaks a bone — 31 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 31 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

WAFA say no — this time

The offer from Canon Yaounde for Edmund Baba 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 targets

$72.0K settles it between the clubs for Osei Prince

Aduana Stars have accepted the money. What WAFA do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

Squad

Edmund Baba is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 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.

The dugout

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Squad

David Essien stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” David Essien and WAFA agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Words exchanged at WAFA

Yaw Nuhu 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.

The terraces

$43.0K for Massawudu Inusah, and WAFA supporters approve

Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Massawudu Inusah from Aduana Stars for $43.0K, and a ticket office having a very good morning.

In brief

55 Edition

The WAFA Post

16 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Francis Afful breaks a bone — 38 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 38 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Kamaldeen Kyereh asks to leave WAFA

“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.

Squad

A move Yakubu Dogo would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Yakubu Dogo is living that version at WAFA, and it tends to show in the first month.

Transfer targets

Massawudu Inusah is a medical away from WAFA

The deal with Aduana Stars is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Squad

A falling-out at WAFA

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

Squad

A late step up for Albert Sulemana

At 28 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

Transfer targets

WAFA rebuffed over Saidu Lawan

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

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The dugout

Albert Sulemana is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

In brief

54 Edition

The WAFA Post

9 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Francis Afful out for 45 days

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

Market

Hearts of Oak come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and WAFA did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Ernest Bukari asks to leave WAFA

“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

Eyes on Edmund Baba again

The phone has started ringing about Edmund Baba again, and this time the name on the line is Unisport Bafang. WAFA are listening politely and promising nothing.

The dugout

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Squad

Francis Appiah 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

Yaw Nuhu 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 WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Samuel Kudus has improved at 26, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Isaac Sulemana is in the works

WAFA have made the call to Hasaacas. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

In brief

53 Edition

The WAFA Post

2 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Francis Afful breaks a bone — 52 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 52 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

The dugout

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Squad

Words exchanged at WAFA

Felix Boakye 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.

Squad

Words at WAFA training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Edmund Baba 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

Andre Acquah slips down the pecking order

The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Andre Acquah is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.

The dugout

Felix Boakye knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Felix Boakye trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

52 Edition

The WAFA Post

26 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Francis Afful out for 59 days

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

Squad

Harrison Acquah damages knee ligaments — 48 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 48 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.

Market

Canon Yaounde come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and WAFA did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Transfer targets

Fee done, terms next for Adams Abdul Jabal

WAFA and Medeama have settled on $110.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.

The dugout

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Squad

Tempers go at WAFA

Felix Boakye 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 WAFA training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Joseph Mensah 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 dugout

Daniel Nuhu 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 dugout

Ernest Bukari knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Ernest Bukari trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

51 Edition

The WAFA Post

19 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Francis Afful out for 66 days

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

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Harrison Acquah

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

Market

Kamaldeen Kyereh 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 WAFA can pretend not to have heard.

Market

WAFA turn down MB Rouissat for Kwame Wakaso

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

The dugout

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Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Harrison Atiemo

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

Squad

Felix Boakye 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 WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

The manager has not finished forgetting Albert Sulemana's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

Squad

Words at WAFA training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Osman Mensah 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

50 Edition

The WAFA Post

12 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Francis Afful out for 73 days

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

Squad

The knee: Harrison Acquah out for 62 days

62 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. WAFA lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market

Ernest Bukari 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 WAFA can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout

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Squad

A falling-out at WAFA

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

Squad

Edmund Baba signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Edmund Baba and WAFA agree another 5 years.

The dugout

Edmund Baba 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

BA All Stars expected to open talks for Nana Wakaso

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. WAFA will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Market

The Felix Boakye story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Felix Boakye signs something — a contract at WAFA or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief

  • The dugout Abdul Inusah knocks on the manager's door
  • The dugout The manager plants his flag on Francis Afful
  • Boardroom The WAFA production line keeps running
49 Edition

The WAFA Post

5 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

The knee: Afriyie Annan out for 15 days

15 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. WAFA lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market

Boubacar Tamboura 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 WAFA can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets

Fee done, terms next for Harrison Atiemo

WAFA and BA All Stars have settled on $95.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.

The dugout

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Squad

Tempers go at WAFA

Yaw Nuhu was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Market

A season away well spent by Edmund Baba

27 games, 9 goals, and a squad option that has arrived without a fee attached. The interesting question at WAFA now is not whether he plays but who he displaces.

Market

Francis Afful is free to find somewhere else

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

Squad

Joseph Mensah 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

Christian Djiku stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Christian Djiku and WAFA agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

In brief

  • Boardroom WAFA sign 6 boys into the academy
  • The dugout Joseph Mensah asks for a word with the manager
  • The dugout The manager makes an example of Harrison Acquah
48 Edition

The WAFA Post

28 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Afriyie Annan

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

The dugout

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Squad

Words exchanged at WAFA

Yaw Nuhu 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.

Squad

Words at WAFA training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Joseph Mensah 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 dugout

Kamaldeen Kyereh knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Kamaldeen Kyereh trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market

The Kwame Wakaso talk will not go away

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

The dugout

Yaw Nuhu keeps his manager's vote

The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Yaw Nuhu plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.

Match

Mid-table, and WAFA know it

Position 9 on 42 points, with the season drifting toward the summer. It is the safest place in football and the hardest one to sell a season ticket from.

Boardroom

The WAFA board choose calm

Full confidence, expressed in the dull, deliberate language boards reserve for when they mean it. The window that follows will show whether the words came with money attached.

In brief

47 Edition

The WAFA Post

21 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Afriyie Annan damages knee ligaments — 30 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 30 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.

Market

Kamaldeen Kyereh 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 WAFA can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets

Fee done, terms next for Massawudu Inusah

WAFA and Aduana Stars have settled on $43.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.

The dugout

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Squad

A falling-out at WAFA

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

Squad

WAFA count the cost of losing Samuel Schlupp

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

The dugout

The manager has not finished forgetting Albert Sulemana's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

The dugout

Kamaldeen Kyereh 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 WAFA, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Squad

A row about effort at WAFA

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

In brief

46 Edition

The WAFA Post

14 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Afriyie Annan

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

The dugout

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Transfer targets

WAFA bid $80.0K for Eric Ofori-Antwi

The offer went to Berekum Chelsea this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Squad

A falling-out at WAFA

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

Squad

Words at WAFA training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Joseph Mensah 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.

Loan watch

9 goals on loan for Edmund Baba

27 appearances at USM Khenchela and the goals keep coming. WAFA are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.

In brief

45 Edition

The WAFA Post

7 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

The knee: Harrison Acquah out for 98 days

98 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. WAFA lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market

Boubacar Tamboura asks to leave WAFA

“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.

The dugout

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Squad

Words exchanged at WAFA

Felix Boakye 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.

Loan watch

13 goals on loan for Edmund Addo

30 appearances at New Edubiase United and the goals keep coming. WAFA are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.

Market

Jonathan Appiah is free to find somewhere else

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

Squad

Osman Mensah 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 dugout

Ernest Bukari 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

WAFA take the armband off Felix Boakye

It will be explained as a change for the team and it may even be one. Nobody who has worn one believes that, and neither does the man who has just had it taken away.

In brief

  • The dugout Felix Boakye knocks on the manager’s door
  • Loan watch Edmund Addo would rather not come back
  • Boardroom Open for business: WAFA enter the window
44 Edition

The WAFA Post

31 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

The knee: Harrison Acquah out for 105 days

105 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. WAFA lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

The dugout

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Squad

Felix Boakye signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Felix Boakye and WAFA agree another 4 years.

Squad

Tempers go at WAFA

Felix Boakye 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

A row about effort at WAFA

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

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Abdul Inusah

“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.

Market

The Kwame Wakaso talk will not go away

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

The dugout

Ernest Bukari asks for a word with the manager

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

The dugout

David Essien keeps his manager's vote

The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: David Essien plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.

In brief

  • Match Nothing left to play for but pride at WAFA
  • Boardroom The WAFA board put their names to it
43 Edition

The WAFA Post

24 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Felix Boakye 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 WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

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Squad

A row about effort at WAFA

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

The dugout

Albert Sulemana is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Christian Djiku

“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.

Market

The shop window has Boubacar Tamboura in it

WAFA have let the market know Boubacar Tamboura can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

In brief

42 Edition

The WAFA Post

17 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Kamaldeen Kyereh 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 WAFA can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Yaw Nuhu 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 WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Joseph Mensah 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.

Loan watch

The goals keep arriving from Edmund Baba’s exile

9 goals in 27 games at USM Khenchela — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at WAFA updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.

The dugout

Joseph Mensah asks for a word with the manager

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

Market

The Felix Boakye story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Felix Boakye signs something — a contract at WAFA or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

The dugout

No hiding place for Harrison Acquah

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

The dugout

Kamaldeen Kyereh keeps his manager's vote

The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Kamaldeen Kyereh plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.

Squad

Ernest Kudus is settling

A few words of the language, a friend at the next peg, and a training ground that has stopped feeling foreign. Nothing measurable, and everything visible on Saturdays.

In brief

41 Edition

The WAFA Post

10 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Boubacar Tamboura 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 WAFA, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout

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Squad

Tempers go at WAFA

Yaw Nuhu 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.

Loan watch

The goals keep arriving from Edmund Addo’s exile

13 goals in 30 games at New Edubiase United — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at WAFA updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.

The dugout

Kamaldeen Kyereh knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Kamaldeen Kyereh trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Squad

David Asante 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

40 Edition

The WAFA Post

3 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout

Samuel Kudus keeps the receipts

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

The dugout

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Squad

Words exchanged at WAFA

Yaw Nuhu 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.

Squad

Words at WAFA training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Joseph Mensah 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 dugout

Kamaldeen Kyereh asks for a word with the manager

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

The dugout

No hiding place for Abdul Inusah

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

Market

The Kwame Wakaso talk will not go away

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

Squad

Ernest Bukari is starting to look at home

The language is arriving, the jokes are landing, and there is somebody at the next peg to talk to. None of it appears in a scouting report and all of it shows up on the pitch.

Match

Mid-table, and WAFA know it

Position 9 on 42 points, with the season drifting toward the summer. It is the safest place in football and the hardest one to sell a season ticket from.

In brief

39 Edition

The WAFA Post

26 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Felix Boakye 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 WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

Albert Sulemana is still paying for one afternoon at WAFA

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.

Squad

Words at WAFA training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Osman Mensah 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 dugout

The manager makes an example of Thomas Asamoah

“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.

The dugout

Boubacar Tamboura knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Boubacar Tamboura trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Squad

Thomas Asamoah is not doing himself any favours

A manager forgives a bad Saturday far more readily than a bad Tuesday, because one of them he can explain and the other one he chose. The reports this week have not been good.

In brief

38 Edition

The WAFA Post

19 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Kamaldeen Kyereh 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 WAFA, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout

Christian Djiku: 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.” WAFA have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Felix Boakye 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 WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Loan watch

Edmund Baba keeps scoring at USM Khenchela

27 appearances away from home and 9 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.

The dugout

No hiding place for Ernest Bukari

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

Squad

Words at WAFA training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. David Asante 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

37 Edition

The WAFA Post

12 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Boubacar Tamboura asks to leave WAFA

“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.

Squad

Tempers go at WAFA

Felix Boakye 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.

The dugout

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13 goals on loan for Edmund Addo

30 appearances at New Edubiase United and the goals keep coming. WAFA are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.

Squad

Joseph Mensah 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

Francis Appiah stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Francis Appiah and WAFA agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Market

Patrick Wakaso is free to find somewhere else

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

The dugout

No hiding place for Christian Djiku

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

The dugout

Ernest Bukari knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Ernest Bukari trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

  • The dugout The manager plants his flag on Yaw Nuhu
  • Squad Questions about Francis Appiah on the training pitch
36 Edition

The WAFA Post

5 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Words exchanged at WAFA

Felix Boakye 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.

Squad

A row about effort at WAFA

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

Squad

The armband comes off Jonathan Appiah

WAFA will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.

The dugout

Abdul Inusah 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

WAFA give Felix Boakye the armband

A decision that decides nothing on the pitch and everything in the room. The manager has said, without saying it, whose voice he wants heard when his own is not there.

Market

The Kwame Wakaso question follows WAFA around

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

In brief

  • The dugout The manager plants his flag on Kamaldeen Kyereh
  • Match Mid-table, and WAFA know it
  • Boardroom WAFA board back the manager
35 Edition

The WAFA Post

29 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

A 2-goal lead gone for WAFA

It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. Hearts of Oak kept coming because nothing stopped them, and WAFA will be asked about the last half hour all week.

Squad

Felix Boakye is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.42 with 26 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Match

WAFA finish in position 9

42 points, and the season has a number on it. Whatever it felt like from the inside, this is what it will look like in a book.

The dugout

Abeiku Annan: 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.” WAFA have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Match

The wait goes on for WAFA

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.

Squad

Yaw Nuhu 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 WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Hearts of Oak take the points off WAFA

Beaten 2‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Match

WAFA leaking at the back

4 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Patrick Wakaso

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

In brief

  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • The dugout Albert Sulemana is still being punished for one mistake
  • Player ratings A costly moment from Albert Sulemana
34 Edition

The WAFA Post

22 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

9 saves: Francis Afful was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 9 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Market

Kamaldeen Kyereh 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 WAFA can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

A falling-out at WAFA

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

Match

Kwame Wakaso’s goal not enough for WAFA

Kwame Wakaso scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑3 to Hasaacas, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Squad

Kwame Wakaso is carrying WAFA

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

Squad

Joseph Mensah 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 dugout

The manager makes an example of Boubacar Tamboura

“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.

The dugout

Baba Nuhu answers for it

“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.

Loan watch

9 goals on loan for Edmund Baba

27 appearances at USM Khenchela and the goals keep coming. WAFA are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.

In brief

33 Edition

The WAFA Post

15 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Albert Sulemana runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 34. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Felix Boakye

25 goals and a season average of 7.44 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Market

Boubacar Tamboura 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 WAFA, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout

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Squad

Words exchanged at WAFA

Yaw Nuhu 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.

Match

WAFA come up short against Heart of Lions

Heart of Lions left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Loan watch

13 goals on loan for Edmund Addo

28 appearances at New Edubiase United and the goals keep coming. WAFA are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.

Squad

Joseph Mensah 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 dugout

Baba Nuhu: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

In brief

  • The dugout Francis Afful dropped after a run of poor form
  • The dugout Kamaldeen Kyereh knocks on the manager’s door
  • Looking ahead WAFA take on the side everybody is chasing
32 Edition

The WAFA Post

8 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Felix Boakye is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.43 with 24 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Squad

Words exchanged at WAFA

Felix Boakye 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.

Squad

Jonathan Appiah signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Jonathan Appiah and WAFA agree another 3 years.

Match

Berekum Chelsea take the points off WAFA

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Samuel Sulemana

“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.

Loan watch

12 goals on loan for Edmund Addo

27 appearances at New Edubiase United and the goals keep coming. WAFA are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.

The dugout

No place for Amos Paintsil on the big day

He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at WAFA pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.

Player ratings

Joseph Mensah was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 16. 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 dugout

Baba Nuhu: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

In brief

  • Player ratings Daniel Nuhu's mistake decides it
  • The dugout WAFA pick somebody else ahead of Amos Paintsil
  • Squad Words at WAFA training over how hard people work
31 Edition

The WAFA Post

1 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

A brace, and Felix Boakye takes the afternoon — 8.79

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Felix Boakye provided it, and the 8.79 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad

Felix Boakye is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.43 with 23 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

The dugout

Ernest Bukari: 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.” WAFA have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

A falling-out at WAFA

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

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Joseph Mensah

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

Match

Felix Boakye the difference as WAFA beat New Edubiase United

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Felix Boakye. 2‑1 against New Edubiase United, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad

Words at WAFA training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Joseph Mensah 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.

Loan watch

Edmund Addo keeps scoring at New Edubiase United

26 appearances away from home and 10 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.

The dugout

Baba Nuhu: “That is the standard”

“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 2‑1, already talking about the next one.

In brief

30 Edition

The WAFA Post

22 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Felix Boakye

21 goals and a season average of 7.39 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Squad

Francis Afful stands alone

6 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.

Match

The wait goes on for WAFA

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.

Squad

Felix Boakye 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 WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Joseph Mensah

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

Match

WAFA rescue it on 94 minutes

Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 94. Inter Allies had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Boubacar Tamboura

“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

Nobody on the pitch touched Felix Boakye

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

Squad

A row about effort at WAFA

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

In brief

29 Edition

The WAFA Post

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

WAFA turn down Hammarby for Felix Boakye

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market

Boubacar Tamboura asks to leave WAFA

“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.

Squad

Felix Boakye is carrying WAFA

20 goals and a season average of 7.37. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

The dugout

Abdul Inusah: 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.” WAFA have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Tempers go at WAFA

Felix Boakye 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

Daniel Nuhu signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Daniel Nuhu and WAFA agree another 4 years.

The terraces

One of their own: Joseph Mensah

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.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Joseph Mensah

Marked 8.06 — 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.

Match

WAFA refuse to lose to Bechem United

A point taken on 97 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.

In brief

28 Edition

The WAFA Post

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Felix Boakye is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.34 with 19 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Squad

Tempers go at WAFA

Yaw Nuhu 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 targets

Ashanti Gold tell WAFA: Isa Aji is not for sale

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.

Squad

Joseph Mensah 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

WAFA hit back inside 2 minutes

Asante Kotoko held the lead for 2 minutes, which is not long enough to enjoy it. WAFA answered before the celebration had properly finished, and the shape of the afternoon changed with it.

Match

WAFA and Asante Kotoko take a point apiece

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

Player ratings

Kamaldeen Kyereh runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The dugout

Baba Nuhu on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Baba Nuhu after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

The dugout

Somebody else is better right now than Boubacar Tamboura

The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.

In brief

27 Edition

The WAFA Post

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Felix Boakye

18 goals and a season average of 7.33 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Market

Bernard Boakye 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 WAFA can pretend not to have heard.

Boardroom

Deadline passes with 0 signed and 0 gone

That is the business done at WAFA until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Squad

Yaw Nuhu 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 WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

WAFA come up short against Liberty Professionals

Liberty Professionals left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Kwame Wakaso signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Kwame Wakaso and WAFA agree another 4 years.

Transfer targets

WAFA rebuffed over Adams Abdul Jabal

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

The dugout

No hiding place for Francis Afful

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

Squad

Joseph Mensah 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

26 Edition

The WAFA Post

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Daniel Nuhu, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.66

A mark of 7.66 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

A falling-out at WAFA

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

Squad

Kwame Wakaso is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.22 with 12 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Match

At last: WAFA win one

5 matches without a win, and then this, against Great Olympics. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.

Match

WAFA find a way past Great Olympics

Great Olympics made WAFA work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

Nobody on the pitch touched Kwame Wakaso

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

The dugout

Baba Nuhu: “That is the standard”

“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 1‑0, already talking about the next one.

The dugout

Kamaldeen Kyereh knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Kamaldeen Kyereh trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout

WAFA pick somebody else ahead of Boubacar Tamboura

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

  • Squad Words at WAFA training over how hard people work
  • Player ratings Nothing got past David Essien
  • Market Felix Boakye linked with a move away
25 Edition

The WAFA Post

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Chastening afternoon for WAFA

A 0‑3 beating by Wa All Stars was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Market

Boubacar Tamboura 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 WAFA, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Francis Afful

There were 6 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.

Match

5 matches without a win for WAFA

The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around WAFA are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Tempers go at WAFA

Felix Boakye 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

A row about effort at WAFA

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

Boardroom

Inquest at WAFA

The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.

The dugout

Baba Nuhu: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

Player ratings

Kamaldeen Kyereh was unplayable

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.

In brief

24 Edition

The WAFA Post

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Nowhere to hide for WAFA

1‑4 against Aduana Stars, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Match

No end in sight to WAFA's wait for a win

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

Squad

Words exchanged at WAFA

Felix Boakye 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 targets

Door shut on Ikenna Nkwazema

WAFA asked and Ashanti Gold said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Kwame Wakaso

11 goals and a season average of 7.21 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

The dugout

Boubacar Tamboura 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.

Boardroom

Nobody left the WAFA dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑4 defeat, delivered by Baba Nuhu to a room that had heard them before.

Squad

Osman Mensah 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

23 Edition

The WAFA Post

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

WAFA let it slip despite Felix Boakye

Felix Boakye had done his part in building a 2-goal cushion. What happened after that was collective, and BA All Stars were allowed back into a match that had been finished with.

Player ratings

Felix Boakye scores twice — 8.75

Two goals and a mark of 8.75 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Felix Boakye

18 goals and a season average of 7.41 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Squad

A falling-out at WAFA

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

Player ratings

Both jobs done by Kamaldeen Kyereh — 7.02

A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 14 actions, 7.02, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.

Transfer targets

Ashanti Gold tell WAFA: Isa Aji is not for sale

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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Francis Afful

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

Match

Honours even between WAFA and BA All Stars

2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Squad

A place in the month's best eleven for Daniel Nuhu

Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Daniel Nuhu has come out of that comparison in the side, and WAFA have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.

In brief

  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • Squad David Asante falls out with a teammate over standards
  • Player ratings Kwame Wakaso could have had three
22 Edition

The WAFA Post

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Felix Boakye 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 WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at WAFA training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Joseph Mensah 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 dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Baba Nuhu was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the WAFA dressing room was either.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Albert Sulemana

Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

WAFA and Medeama cancel each other out

Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Medeama came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.

Squad

Bookings catch up with Daniel Nuhu

One yellow too many, and a match watched from the stand. The most avoidable absence in football, and WAFA will feel it on Saturday.

Squad

A first team debut at 15 for Thomas Asamoah

Off the academy pitches and into a senior shirt, at 15. The parents in the stand will keep the programme, and so will he.

Loan watch

The goals keep arriving from Edmund Addo’s exile

6 goals in 17 games at New Edubiase United — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at WAFA updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.

Market

Felix Boakye linked with a move away

The name of Felix Boakye keeps appearing in other people's back pages. WAFA say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

21 Edition

The WAFA Post

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Francis Afful stands alone

9 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.

Market

Boubacar Tamboura 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 WAFA, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Felix Boakye is carrying WAFA

16 goals and a season average of 7.39. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Squad

Words exchanged at WAFA

Yaw Nuhu 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.

Match

WAFA come up short against Ashanti Gold

Ashanti Gold left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Felix Boakye

Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

A row about effort at WAFA

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

The dugout

Baba Nuhu answers for it

“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.

The dugout

A promise honoured at WAFA

Something was said to Boubacar Tamboura and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.

In brief

20 Edition

The WAFA Post

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Francis Afful stands alone

12 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 ratings

Felix Boakye scores twice — 8.81

Two goals and a mark of 8.81 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad

Felix Boakye is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.38 with 15 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Squad

Tempers go at WAFA

Yaw Nuhu 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

Another one collected away from home

4 on the bounce on the road for WAFA. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.

Player ratings

Joseph Mensah 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

Felix Boakye the difference as WAFA beat Hearts of Oak

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Felix Boakye. 2‑1 against Hearts of Oak, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

The terraces

WAFA supporters have found a favourite in Joseph Mensah

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Joseph Mensah 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

WAFA at the halfway mark

Half the programme played, position 4, 31 on the board. Doubling it is the sum every supporter has done and the only one nobody at the club will do out loud.

In brief

19 Edition

The WAFA Post

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Francis Afful

There were 9 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.

Squad

Francis Afful stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Francis Afful and WAFA agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Yaw Nuhu 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 WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Hasaacas take the points off WAFA

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Kwame Wakaso is carrying WAFA

10 goals and a season average of 7.27. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Boardroom

$2.7M on the table at WAFA

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 dugout

Baba Nuhu faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Baba Nuhu after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

The dugout

Kamaldeen Kyereh knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Kamaldeen Kyereh trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout

The form table has caught Boubacar Tamboura

Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.

In brief

18 Edition

The WAFA Post

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

The dugout

Abeiku Nuhu: 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.” WAFA have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Albert Sulemana

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

Squad

Patrick Wakaso signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Patrick Wakaso and WAFA agree another 3 years.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Felix Boakye

13 goals and a season average of 7.35 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Squad

Felix Boakye 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 WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

WAFA see off Heart of Lions

Three points for WAFA, 3‑2 the final word against Heart of Lions in a contest settled by the finer margins.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Felix Boakye

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

WAFA are at home on the road

3 straight away victories. Sides that win away are usually sides that can defend and can counter, and the table has begun to reflect what those journeys have earned.

Player ratings

Kwame Wakaso was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.57. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

In brief

17 Edition

The WAFA Post

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Tempers go at WAFA

Felix Boakye was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Player ratings

Albert Sulemana was the difference for WAFA

Marked 7.79. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

The dugout

Ernest Bukari 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 dugout

Baba Nuhu: “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 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

Squad

A row about effort at WAFA

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

Player ratings

David Essien shuts the door

Defensive actions: 13, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

The dugout

Boubacar Tamboura 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.

Match

WAFA and Berekum Chelsea cancel each other out

Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Berekum Chelsea came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.

Market

The Felix Boakye talk will not go away

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

In brief

16 Edition

The WAFA Post

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

Felix Boakye scores twice — 8.75

Two goals and a mark of 8.75 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Match

Nobody wants to play WAFA 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

Words exchanged at WAFA

Felix Boakye 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.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Felix Boakye

12 goals and a season average of 7.32 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Match

Felix Boakye sends WAFA past New Edubiase United

It finished 2‑1, and it was Felix Boakye’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to WAFA.

The dugout

No hiding place for Patrick Wakaso

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

Squad

Words at WAFA training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Joseph Mensah 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 dugout

Baba Nuhu has his say

“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Baba Nuhu on a 2‑1 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.

Squad

A first team debut at 16 for Andre Acquah

Off the academy pitches and into a senior shirt, at 16. The parents in the stand will keep the programme, and so will he.

In brief

15 Edition

The WAFA Post

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

A brace, and Felix Boakye takes the afternoon — 8.78

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Felix Boakye provided it, and the 8.78 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad

A falling-out at WAFA

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

Match

Felix Boakye the difference as WAFA beat Inter Allies

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Felix Boakye. 2‑1 against Inter Allies, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Felix Boakye

10 goals and a season average of 7.26 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Squad

Words at WAFA training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Osman Mensah 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 dugout

A satisfied Baba Nuhu

“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑1, Baba Nuhu could afford to be generous.

Player ratings

The pass was always on for Kwame Wakaso

Chances created: 10. Somebody has to open a door before anybody can walk through it, and he spent the afternoon opening doors.

The dugout

No hiding place for Abdul Inusah

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

Player ratings

Joseph Mensah beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 12. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

In brief

14 Edition

The WAFA Post

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

WAFA run riot against Bechem United

4‑1, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Player ratings

Both of them Kwame Wakaso's — 9.27

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.27, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad

David Essien signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” David Essien commits to WAFA for another 4 years.

Squad

A falling-out at WAFA

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

The terraces

WAFA supporters have found a favourite in Joseph Mensah

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Joseph Mensah 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.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Felix Boakye at his very best

Marked 8.38. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at WAFA.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Joseph Mensah

Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Kwame Wakaso

9 goals and a season average of 7.27 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Player ratings

Kamaldeen Kyereh in the eights

A performance of 8.17 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

In brief

13 Edition

The WAFA Post

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Amos Paintsil stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Amos Paintsil and WAFA agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Words exchanged at WAFA

Yaw Nuhu 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.

Match

Asante Kotoko take the points off WAFA

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

Squad

Joseph Mensah 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 dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Baba Nuhu to a room that had heard them before.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Kamaldeen Kyereh

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

The dugout

Boubacar Tamboura 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for David Atiemo

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

Market

The Felix Boakye talk will not go away

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

In brief

12 Edition

The WAFA Post

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Francis Appiah is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 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

Tempers go at WAFA

Yaw Nuhu 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

Felix Boakye the difference as WAFA beat Liberty Professionals

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Felix Boakye. 2‑0 against Liberty Professionals, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Kwame Wakaso at his very best

Marked 8.48. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at WAFA.

Player ratings

One of those days for Felix Boakye

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.12, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad

A row about effort at WAFA

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

Market

Boubacar Tamboura is free to find somewhere else

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

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Kwame Wakaso

7 goals and a season average of 7.20 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

The dugout

Baba Nuhu: “That is the standard”

“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 2‑0, already talking about the next one.

In brief

11 Edition

The WAFA Post

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

The small margins put WAFA out

Out, 0‑3 to Medeama, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

The terraces

WAFA are taken apart by Medeama — and the town wants answers

It finished 0-3. A cup exit is a disappointment; this was a public dismantling, and the difference between the two is the number of people who will still be talking about it in August.

Squad

6 saves: Francis Afful was the team

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.

Squad

The step up is real for Daniel Nuhu

At 21 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.

Squad

A falling-out at WAFA

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

Match

WAFA find a way past Great Olympics

Great Olympics made WAFA work for it, but the scoreboard read 4‑3 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Match

Nobody could stop scoring

7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about WAFA and Great Olympics in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Kwame Wakaso at his very best

Marked 8.52. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at WAFA.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Felix Boakye at his very best

Marked 8.51. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at WAFA.

In brief

10 Edition

The WAFA Post

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

WAFA run riot against Wa All Stars

4‑1, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Player ratings

Both of them Kwame Wakaso's — 9.10

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.10, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad

Francis Afful stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Francis Afful and WAFA agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Joseph Mensah

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Felix Boakye 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 WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Felix Boakye

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.

Squad

Words at WAFA training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Joseph Mensah 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 dugout

Baba Nuhu: “That is the standard”

“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 4‑1, already talking about the next one.

The dugout

No hiding place for Christian Djiku

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

In brief

9 Edition

The WAFA Post

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Tempers go at WAFA

Felix Boakye 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

A bad afternoon for WAFA against Aduana Stars

0‑2 to Aduana Stars, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Joseph Mensah

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

The dugout

Baba Nuhu faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Baba Nuhu after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

Squad

Words at WAFA training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Osman Mensah 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

Bernard Schlupp stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Bernard Schlupp and WAFA agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

The division's best last weekend was a WAFA man

It is a small honour and it is not nothing: somebody watched every match in the division and decided that Felix Boakye was the best thing in any of them.

Market

The Felix Boakye talk will not go away

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

The dugout

Ernest Bukari knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Ernest Bukari trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

8 Edition

The WAFA Post

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Felix Boakye scores twice — 9.32

Two goals and a mark of 9.32 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad

Words exchanged at WAFA

Felix Boakye 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.

Match

Felix Boakye the difference as WAFA beat BA All Stars

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Felix Boakye. 3‑1 against BA All Stars, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Market

WAFA promote Samuel Ayew from within

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

Market

One of our own: Ernest Kudus joins the WAFA first team

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

Market

Francis Amoah steps up from the WAFA academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Francis Amoah 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

One of our own: Emmanuel Atiemo joins the WAFA first team

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

Match

BA All Stars blown away early

There is a particular helplessness in conceding 2 times before the twentieth minute. BA All Stars tried to reorganise, WAFA did not allow it, and the result was written long before it was confirmed.

Player ratings

Kwame Wakaso was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.44. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

In brief

7 Edition

The WAFA Post

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Both of them Felix Boakye's — 9.00

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.00, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad

Yaw Nuhu 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 WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

WAFA get the job done against Medeama

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

Transfer targets

WAFA rebuffed over Yussif Moro Owusu

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

Player ratings

Kwame Wakaso was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.85. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Transfer targets

Ernest Mwankurinah stays at Aduana Stars as time runs out

A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. WAFA will try again when the window opens; Aduana Stars may not be selling by then.

Squad

Joseph Mensah 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

Ernest Bukari signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ernest Bukari commits to WAFA for another 3 years.

The dugout

A satisfied Baba Nuhu

“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 3‑1, Baba Nuhu could afford to be generous.

In brief

6 Edition

The WAFA Post

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

9 saves: Francis Afful was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 9 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Market

Kwame Wakaso says no to Canon Yaounde

“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Kwame Wakaso had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.

Market

Ernest Bukari 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 WAFA can pretend not to have heard.

Boardroom

Deadline passes with 8 signed and 4 gone

That is the business done at WAFA until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Ernest Mwankurinah

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

Squad

A falling-out at WAFA

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

Boardroom

3 academy graduates step up at WAFA

Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.

Match

Ashanti Gold take the points off WAFA

Beaten 2‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Transfer targets

Bristol City tell WAFA: Joe Williams is not for sale

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.

In brief

5 Edition

The WAFA Post

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

WAFA say no — this time

The offer from Victoria United for Kwame Wakaso 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

Jonathan Mensah asks to leave WAFA

“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.

Transfer targets

An offer of $89.0K for Ernest Mwankurinah

WAFA have gone to Aduana Stars with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Squad

Words exchanged at WAFA

Yaw Nuhu 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 targets

WAFA rebuffed over Isaac Inusah

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

Squad

Abeiku Annan stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Abeiku Annan and WAFA agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Words at WAFA training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Francis Appiah 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.

Looking ahead

WAFA take on the side everybody is chasing

Ashanti Gold arrive as leaders. A side at the top is beaten roughly once a month, and the club that does it gets a week it remembers for a year.

Market

The Felix Boakye talk will not go away

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

In brief

4 Edition

The WAFA Post

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

WAFA say no — this time

The offer from Hasaacas for Yaw Nuhu 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

Boubacar Tamboura 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 WAFA, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Business is business: Nana Inusah goes

Great Olympics paid $1.4M and WAFA took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Market

Paradou watching Kwame Wakaso

The interest is real enough to have reached print. WAFA have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad

Words exchanged at WAFA

Felix Boakye 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.

Squad

Joseph Mensah 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

3 Edition

The WAFA Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

WAFA say no — this time

The offer from Hearts of Oak for Nana Inusah 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.

Squad

Nana Inusah 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 WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Business is business: Isaac Boateng goes

Hearts of Oak paid $120.0K and WAFA took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Ayanda Jiyane

WAFA asked and Golden Arrows said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

The dugout

Nana Inusah 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

New Edubiase United watching Edmund Addo

The interest is real enough to have reached print. WAFA have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad

David Atiemo signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” David Atiemo commits to WAFA for another 3 years.

Squad

A row about effort at WAFA

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

Market

Jonathan Mensah placed on the list

WAFA have made Jonathan Mensah available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

In brief

2 Edition

The WAFA Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Kwame Wakaso says no to Isloch

“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Kwame Wakaso had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.

Market

WAFA say no — this time

The offer from Ashanti Gold for Felix Boakye 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

Terms done: Isaac Boateng is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Hearts of Oak waiting with a shirt. Nobody at WAFA is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Squad

Nana Inusah stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Nana Inusah and WAFA agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Words exchanged at WAFA

Nana Inusah 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.

Market

Eyes on Edmund Baba again

The phone has started ringing about Edmund Baba again, and this time the name on the line is USM Khenchela. WAFA are listening politely and promising nothing.

Transfer targets

Asante Kotoko tell WAFA: Francis Acquah is not for sale

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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Yaw Nuhu

“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

Words at WAFA training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Edmund Baba 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

  • The dugout Nana Inusah asks for a word with the manager
  • Squad A wage question at WAFA
1 Edition

The WAFA Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

WAFA turn down Petrojet for Kwame Wakaso

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market

Ernest Bukari 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 WAFA, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

A falling-out at WAFA

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

Transfer targets

Norwich City tell WAFA: Jack Stacey is not for sale

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.

Squad

Joseph Mensah 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.

Market

No place for Jonathan Mensah in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Jonathan Mensah has his answer from WAFA; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

In brief