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fixing, improve pitches, governance, youth coaching, TV rights, and club finances.
Do not handicap the national team to solve domestic league failures.
Not as if this even fixes the league sef.
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I strongly disagree with this growing narrative that players in the Ghana Premier League are on the same level as those competing week in, week out in Europe.
It’s honestly shocking to hear people confidently say that Kevin Nkrumah of Medeama SC is on the same level as Kamaldeen Sulemana, a player who has faced elite defenders in leagues like Seria A and the Premier League. That’s not a fair comparison!!
The same goes for claims that Rudolf Mensah of Swedru All Blacks is on par with Prince Kwabena Adu, who is sharpening his game in Europe with FC Viktoria Plzeň. European football demands tactical discipline, speed of thought, physical conditioning, and consistency at a level our local league simply doesn’t replicate.
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Let’s be honest with ourselves: talent exists locally, no one is denying that. But talent without the right environment stays raw. The structure, coaching quality, sports science, and competitive intensity in Europe accelerate player development in ways the local system currently cannot match.
Have we asked why players who look dominant locally struggle when they make the jump abroad?
If anything, instead of forcing these comparisons, we should focus on improving player development pathways.
Respect our local players, yes, but don’t overhype them to the point where we lose objectivity. The gap is real, and pretending otherwise doesn’t help Ghana football grow!!
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@stephenzando National team call ups should be the result of a strong league, not the tool to fix a weak one.
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In fact the argument of local players representation in the Black Stars must be a GFA policy. Best goalkeeper, defender, midfielder, attacker earn a place in the BS automatically. The GFA should have such a policy
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The blackstars don’t need any local pipeline the blackstars need quality players wether local or foreign.
Michael Akomeah@akomeahmessiah
the Black Stars can chase wins today, but without a functioning local pipeline, those wins won’t be sustainable in the long term ….That’s the same pipeline that will produce quality for export…
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@akomeahmessiah Can you explain how the quota system would improve our league
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Winning and development aren’t opposite they depend on each other….. A national team that ignores its domestic base becomes fragile at a point in time…and our happy moments with the history of the national team are many at times centred around local boys..with a small quality pool of foreign based players if injuries, form drops, or club release issues hit, there’s no depth…
If local players aren’t at the same level, the solution isn’t to exclude them…it’s to give them structured exposure so they reach that level…. You can’t demand quality from players who never get meaningful minutes... quotas don’t mean picking weak players over better ones but they ensure a pipeline so the gap actually closes instead of widening forever..
FII@fiifi_manfred
Senior,the idea of a local league quota for national football team call ups sounds appealing on the surface but whether it’s “good” depends on what problem we are trying to solve, in Politics et al it’s about the problem you mentioned (survival) but a strict quota in this case of sports can backfire if it ignores merit. The national team’s primary goal is to win matches and not to develop the league,If local players aren’t yet at the same level as top foreign based players, forcing inclusion can weaken the squad It may create selection politics, where players are picked to satisfy policy rather than performance in the long run this doesn’t help anyone.
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Senior,the idea of a local league quota for national football team call ups sounds appealing on the surface but whether it’s “good” depends on what problem we are trying to solve, in Politics et al it’s about the problem you mentioned (survival) but a strict quota in this case of sports can backfire if it ignores merit.
The national team’s primary goal is to win matches and not to develop the league,If local players aren’t yet at the same level as top foreign based players, forcing inclusion can weaken the squad
It may create selection politics, where players are picked to satisfy policy rather than performance in the long run this doesn’t help anyone.
Gary Al-Smith@garyalsmith
A lot of the arguments being made against GPL players getting quotas in the WC squad are compelling. Just to point out, quotas (in business, economics, sport etc) are one way to protect domestic investment, giving local products (GPL in this instance) a chance to survive.
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@LordBogos At a point some fans said he should be called to Brazil national team 😂😂
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@sportyfrank Abdul Aziz Issah will start at Auxerre and Real Oviedo straight up I beg lets not go there koraaa
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Use see Abdul Aziz Issah? he was a consistent performer in the Ghana Premier League but we’ve seen the difference when the opportunity to play in Europe arrived. The levels are different. That’s not to say we can’t get a single local player on merit!
Yaw Adjei-Mintah@YawMintYM
If Elisha Owusu and Kwasi Sibo can consistently make the Black Stars Squad and start games for the team, then a handful of Ghana Premier League players can do same. If you don't believe this then you are just being disingenuous
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@garyalsmith Jordan was selected because he kept getting minutes for his club at a high level.Played consistently with crystal palace and Aston villa before Leicester .They didn’t receive callups out of sentiments. The national team isn’t a development project.
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After you guys list all these 'failures', dont forget to remind us how wasteful Jordan was, and how it was only after years of patience that he is Ghana capt today.
Heck, Gyan at the 2006 WC & 2008 AFCON was a chance-missing machine. Yet, he was trusted. Dont pick and choose.
Jude Duncan@mensaduncan
Fatawu Mohammed was selected while he was captain of Hearts for a WC qualifier against South Africa. He had a poor game & blamed the intimidating nature of the stadium. There were no fans present. It’s not just about talent; it’s the basics, exposure, coaching, and more.
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@Owura4ever @Skefonzi @guyguyArmy Lmao. You think Salim can start weekly in French or Spanish league?
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@Skefonzi @guyguyArmy Cos what Sibo and Adjetey dems dey play no Okrah , Abban , Annor and Salim nor fit play?
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It’s funny seeing how some top journalists are rubbishing the idea of local players inclusion in the black stars, personally I am not surprised cos most of these top journalist do not follow most of the players we are making a case for,they just see full time results @guyguyArmy
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Even Morocco and Senegal whose CHAN teams were very successful didn't reserve any quota for their local players. These boys when put together as a national team can't even perform. Don't even start that conversation. They must earn it. If you are a left back in the GPL, your competitors is against all Ghanaian LBs across the globe. Nobody will lock down any slots for you. Earn it.
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@YawMintYM If Elisha and Sibo played in the local league You would easily notice they are miles ahead of the local guys ..They would probably be man of the match for every game they play ..
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If Elisha Owusu and Kwasi Sibo can consistently make the Black Stars Squad and start games for the team, then a handful of Ghana Premier League players can do same. If you don't believe this then you are just being disingenuous
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Another way of looking at this is this: which GPL player is good enough to start at Real Oviedo or Auxerre on a consistent basis? Would those players bench these two at their clubs?
Yaw Adjei-Mintah@YawMintYM
If Elisha Owusu and Kwasi Sibo can consistently make the Black Stars Squad and start games for the team, then a handful of Ghana Premier League players can do same. If you don't believe this then you are just being disingenuous
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@stephenzando @OfficialSitso Last World Cup we sent Barnieh and danlad .Thier inclusion didn’t translate into increased demand ,transfers or visibility for the Gpl .If you want to develop the league there are better and evidenced based ways to do it .Selection to the national team should be merit based
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@OfficialSitso You and i knw we watch the local players in the Black Stars with different lenses. Foreign based players can play wata for years they will be called severally. Same cannot be said of our local players. It’s for this i support the quota agenda for a developing league like GPL
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Then they should catch the eye of the coaches. But no quota for anybody.
Stephen Zando@stephenzando
Some of our local based players are better than abrofo no tho. Or they’re at the same level
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With Victor Wembanyama on the floor, the Spurs generate far more layups for their point guard trio — a trio I spent all summer convinced wasn’t an ideal fit. De'Aaron Fox, Stephon Castle, and Dylan Harper are three downhill guards and none of them is a proven knockdown shooter. On paper the spacing math didn’t work. Mitch Johnson solved it by playing only one or two of them together at once. And Wemby handled the rest. Harper’s at-rim frequency jumps 15.5% with Wemby on the floor. Castle, 14.2%; Fox, 9.7%.
More shots at the rim is one piece. More shots going in at a higher rate is the other. Every rotation player sees a jump, not just the guards. Devin Vassell’s true shooting climbs from 55.2% to 60.8%. Harrison Barnes from 58% to 64.7%. Julian Champagnie from 58.4% to 63.3%. Fox is the exception — his true shooting stays the same.
Some of this increase is thanks to transition offense off stops. Most of it is Wemby’s gravity in the half-court.
Gravity comes in different flavors. The first is simple spacing: his shooting pulls a big out of the paint and the guards drive into an empty lane. The more interesting one is what happens when he rolls. When off-ball defenders decide to stay home on shooters, the big man still needs to prevent a lob to Wemby, which means Fox, Castle and Harper can go one-on-one with a full head of steam and walk into layups.
Of the nearly 400 handler/screener duos to log at least 100 pick-and-rolls this season, Fox/Wemby, Castle/Wemby and Harper/Wemby all rank in the 88th percentile or better in scoring efficiency.
None of this shows up on his line. Wemby finishes those possessions with zero points and zero assists and jogs back down the floor, and the box score insists nothing happened. Something happened.
Kevin O'Connor@KevinOConnor
My 2026 NBA MVP ballot: 1. Victor Wembanyama 2. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander 3. Nikola Jokic I spent most of the season assuming I'd vote SGA. Then I looked closer. New column on @YahooSports: sports.yahoo.com/nba/article/th…
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Over 600 applications no nie. They should publish the names of all 600 applicants
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Medeama beating Kotoko 3-0. Whoever appointed Prince Owusu or recommended his appointment, doesn’t like Kotoko at all.
What a shame.
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Kotoko shouldn’t be the yardstick, we’re terrible. If you organize young boys or fishermen in your area, you stand a good chance of beating this Kotoko team.
Isaac 'Opeele' McLaurin Boateng 🇺🇲🇺🇲@CoachOpeele
He Outsmart, Outfox, Outbox, Outpace, Outwit, Outperform and Outscored 2 goals against Kotoko Salim Adams is the best player in the Ghana Premier League. Deserves to start for the Black Stars. He is ahead of Kwasi Zibo
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He Outsmart, Outfox, Outbox, Outpace, Outwit, Outperform and Outscored 2 goals against Kotoko
Salim Adams is the best player in the Ghana Premier League. Deserves to start for the Black Stars. He is ahead of Kwasi Zibo
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