Author: Raphael Bannerman-Quartey

Edmund Addo, a midfielder for the Black Stars, has officially signed with Red Star Belgrade in the just-ended European transfer window.  The defensive midfielder decided to leave his current club Sheriff Tiraspol, Addo to sign a four-year contract with the Serbian champions. The Serbian were said to have repeatedly made efforts to sign the Ghanaian player earlier in the season but due to their involvement in the UEFA Europa League, they decided against selling the player. The 22-year-old completed his transfer ahead of schedule on Wednesday, August 31 after both parties reached an amicable deal to sell off the player. …

Salisu Yusuf, the coach of the Nigerian Super Eagles B, is convinced that his squad can still qualify for Algeria 2023 by thrashing Ghana in Abuja. In order for CHAN Nigeria to qualify for the Championship of African Nations ahead of Ghana, they will have to play above their weight levels with the hope of scoring three unanswered goals. Coach Salisu thinks his team has learned crucial lessons from the first game and will take advantage of Ghana’s flaws in the second match. “We have learnt from our mistakes and want to assure Nigerians that convincing victory is achievable in…

Each of the 18 betPawa Premier League clubs will get thirty (30) pairs of Puma football footwear from the Ghana Football Association during a four-year period starting in January 2023. On Tuesday, August 30, 2022, at the Ghanaman Centre of Excellence in Prampram, President Kurt Edwin Simeon-Okraku announced this during the 28th ordinary session of Congress. The eighteen Premier League clubs will receive a total of five hundred forty (540) pairs of boots to distribute to the players. Additionally, the GFA will provide thirty (30) brand-new Puma boot pairs for the duration to each of the 48 Division One League…

Former Ghana Football Association [GFA] chairman, Dr. Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe believes Asamoah Gyan will be a fantastic addition to the Black Stars set-up ahead of the 2022 World Cup. The 37-year-old has been out of the national team for the past three years. Gyan last played for the Black Stars during the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations [AFCON] in Egypt where the team exited at the Round of 16. The former Sunderland forward who has been clubless for the past two years speaking to the BBC reiterated that he is aiming to play in the Mundial in Qatar later this year.…

Coach of the Black Galaxies, Annor Walker is confident about his side picking the slot to Algeria ahead of their fiercest rivals, Nigeria. The two sides met at the Cape Coast Sports Stadium in the first of two games to see which of the side’s will pick the slot for Algeria. At the end of the game in Cape Coast, Hearts of Oak duo Daniel Afriyie Barnieh and Seidu Suraj ensured that Black Galaxies put themselves in pole position for the next leg. Meanwhile, head coach of the Black Galaxies, Annor Walker in a recent interview has set his sights…

The Black Galaxies of Ghana took a giant leap in qualification as its doubleheader fixture against CHAN Nigeria at the Cape Coast Sports Stadium provided the right grounds for a feisty return leg in Nigeria. The Ghanaian side started the match on the front foot as Karela United’s Augustine Randolph teed up Seidu Suraj but for ill lack, he failed to connect the home side’s first real attack of the game. There were few chances in-between the game but the Nigerians were first to the 50/50 balls, pressing their opponents using strength, physique, and pace to their advantage which on…

Ghanaian forward Maxwell Abbey-Quaye has debunked circling stories making rounds in the Ghana Premier League that he has joined Accra Hearts of Oak ahead of the new season. On the eve of the transfer window varied portals in the Ghanaian media landscape reported the deal of him joining the MTN FA Cup Champions. In a recent exclusive interview with Saharafootball.net, Abbey Quaye admonished everyone to treat his purported move to Accra Hearts of Oak as rumors. READ: Ghana Premier League All Signings ahead of new season “It’s rumors, it’s all rumors, I haven’t joined Accra Hearts of Oak like people are…

The Ghana Premier League Transfer window finally came to a close on Monday,22 August 2022 after it was extended for another week by the Ghana Football Association to aid clubs to make deals to sign players ahead of the new season which is scheduled to kick start on the weekend of September,9,2022. Sahara Football compiles a list of signings by some of the Ghana Premier League and exits as well. S/N  CLUBS IN OUT 1. ACCRA LIONS  DENNIS VOTERE JOSEPH AMOAH RAUF SALIFU JORDAN AYIMBILA JOSEPH ADDO TETTEH OSUMAN KASSIM ABDUL RASHEED 2. ADUANA STARS  CHARLES MENSAH YAW ANSAH ELVIS…

Accra Hearts of Oak pulled off on last surprise on the final day of the transfer window as they signed former Great Olympics forward, Maxwell Abbey-Quaye on transfer deadline day ahead of the new season. Prior to the season, the 24-year-old signed a two-year contract with Hearts of Oak. Abbey Quaye, after making his debut for the Wonder Club has been a livewire for the two times Ghana Premier League champions. READ: FEATURED: Asamoah Gyan; Returning to Ghana Black Stars? In the past two seasons, Abbey-Quaye has netted 20 goals for the Olympics. Abbey becomes Hearts of Oak’s eighth arrival after…

Ghana’s legendary player, Asamoah Gyan is relishing an opportunity of playing for the senior national team, the Black Stars in the upcoming FIFA World Cup slated for Qatar later this year, in November 2022. This new development has been met with varied reactions from the football populace. Well, like every other issue that circles the media landscape everyone has an opinion to that effect and Asamoah Gyan’s story is no exception.  A section of the Ghanaian populace maintains that he should be given an opportunity to represent the country in the upcoming World Cup in Qatar, as he has unfinished…