According to media reports in Italy, Essien failed his Milan medicals and the move has temporarily been put on hold.
According to media reports in Italy, Essien failed his Milan medicals and the move has temporarily been put on hold.
akotto 10 years ago
good move boy
good move boy
stage 10 years ago
Life is like a revolving door. Essien very good move.
Life is like a revolving door. Essien very good move.
Dwashman 10 years ago
three wins in a row for milan
three wins in a row for milan
MTL 10 years ago
This will help the 2 midfielders to train for the world cup. Is a big plus for Ghana.
This will help the 2 midfielders to train for the world cup. Is a big plus for Ghana.
Amada 10 years ago
What more would Akwesi Appiah expect, something good and sweet is coming from Italy to mesmerize Ghana's World Cup opponents. May God help all our players to be in good health and strength until the times of the World Cup 201 ... read full comment
What more would Akwesi Appiah expect, something good and sweet is coming from Italy to mesmerize Ghana's World Cup opponents. May God help all our players to be in good health and strength until the times of the World Cup 2014, we pray. Already, news of players like the great Falcao of Columbia is uncertain in this respect. May God help our players, coaches and technical team. Amen!
akotto 10 years ago
cool move
cool move
CAPTAIN McREAL .....rvtd. 10 years ago
I BELIEVE AC MILAN IS GOING TO BE A ONE TOUGH TEAM TO BEAT WITH SEEDORF AND HIS BROTHERS .GOOD LUCK TO MILAN THEY NOW HAVE BIG SUPPORT FROM GHANAIAN FANS AND I AM NO. ONE ,NO MORE CHELSEA .
I BELIEVE AC MILAN IS GOING TO BE A ONE TOUGH TEAM TO BEAT WITH SEEDORF AND HIS BROTHERS .GOOD LUCK TO MILAN THEY NOW HAVE BIG SUPPORT FROM GHANAIAN FANS AND I AM NO. ONE ,NO MORE CHELSEA .
FREEMAN 10 years ago
A dream come true. Good bye to boring days for Essien. Life begins again. Essien will be great and great again. Congrats good boy.
A dream come true. Good bye to boring days for Essien. Life begins again. Essien will be great and great again. Congrats good boy.
Elmina the K?nk?nsah 10 years ago
What a change - the first Ghana-man to be happy for his brother's success!
What a change - the first Ghana-man to be happy for his brother's success!
GO FIGURE!!!!!!!!!!!!! 10 years ago
ESSEIN WILL GET THE CHANCE TO PLAY AGAINST CRISTIANO RONALDO OF PORTUGAL TO PREPARE HIM FOR THE WORLD CUP WHEN GHANA PLAYS PORTUGAL
ESSEIN WILL GET THE CHANCE TO PLAY AGAINST CRISTIANO RONALDO OF PORTUGAL TO PREPARE HIM FOR THE WORLD CUP WHEN GHANA PLAYS PORTUGAL
Appletus 10 years ago
Of course, it's a bitter sweet experience for both coach and player , otherwise like father and son. Mourinhno is a Portuguese and Ghana and Essien will play against his home country, Portugal.
Professionalism aside and Essi ... read full comment
Of course, it's a bitter sweet experience for both coach and player , otherwise like father and son. Mourinhno is a Portuguese and Ghana and Essien will play against his home country, Portugal.
Professionalism aside and Essien being a key blackstar player, Mourinhno could decide to bench him always so that Essien rusts long before the world cup arrives.
At this point, because he got a top team, and having contributed immensely to Chelsea, there was no way, he could be pulled down.
The rest is for us to read in between the lines and make our analysis
MAPUTO 2011 10 years ago
Corruption here, Corruption there, Corruption everywhere: ¢8.8 Billion Maputo Scandal Pt. 2 ...GH¢808,955.00 and US$2.2 Million for 232 Contingent
Documents intercepted by the Front Page newspaper suggests financial imp ... read full comment
Corruption here, Corruption there, Corruption everywhere: ¢8.8 Billion Maputo Scandal Pt. 2 ...GH¢808,955.00 and US$2.2 Million for 232 Contingent
Documents intercepted by the Front Page newspaper suggests financial impropriety and malfeasance in the run-up to Ghana's participation in the All African Games hosted in Maputo the capital town of Mozambique in 2011.
In the said documents, the National Sports Council (NSC) led by its Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Worlanyo Agra presented a total budget of GH¢808,955.00 and US$2.2million for 232 contingents.
STRUCTURES UNDERMINED
The Committee believes that given the extent of managerial incompetence, institutionalized corruption and organization rot that is going on at the National Sports Council, it is only a 'roots and branch' shake up of the entire setup that will rid the organization of these ills.
FAILINGS OF THE CHEF DE MISSION
Mr. Erasmus Adorkor was the main cause of the accreditation problems experienced by Team Ghana in Maputo. He failed woefully to meet deadlines set for Chefs de Mission to complete the accreditation process electronically, which would have guaranteed that Team Ghana had pre-accreditation tags before entering Mozambique.
The Committee found out that visa fees for entering Mozambique were waived for all participating countries. However, because Team Ghana had not complied with the pre-accreditation requirements Mr. Adorkor engaged in unnecessary and needless spending: $1,320.00 on visa fees; $1,750.00 on feeding; and another $538.00 on feeding, all as a result of lack of accreditation.
According to the Committee Mr. Adorkor was negligent in booking Paradise Lodge: first, for not seeing the rooms before booking; and second, for keeping the reservations for the 10 rooms for 10 days without putting the rooms to good use or letting go of them. By not doing so, the National Sports Council lost $900.00.
POOR INFORMATION FLOW
Mr. Adorkor failed to relay information concerning the Games to both athletes and officials travelling to the Games. All Chefs de Mission were supplied dossiers that contained information needed the various sporting disciplines for the Games. Yet, Mr. Adorkor got these dossiers and kept them to himself without sharing them with athletes and officials going to Maputo.
He also failed to comply with the requirement that each country was supposed to inform COJA of its arrival 30 days before time. As a result no Ghanaian group was met at the Maputo Airport by a reception party.
PAYMENT OF ALLOWANCES
The Committee also finds that the National Sports Council obtained money from Government to pay the Ghanaian contingent for 22 days, but then paid them for 18 days only.
The Committee finds that the Vice-President of the Ghana Taekwondo Association, Mr. Chris Essilfie, was not paid his per diem allowance of $500.00 which was the first tranche paid to all Presidents of sports associations and/or their representatives.
NON-UTLIZATION OF FUNDS
The Committee finds that out of a total sum of GH356,725.00 cedis voted by Government for the purchase of general kitting for athletes and officials, not one pesewa was spent or utilized for that purpose. Thus, Ghanaian athletes and officials went to the Games without branded or national wear supplied by the National Sport Council. Nigeria, for example, came to the Games with at least four different uniforms, not to mention straw hats, caps, which had all been branded in national colours.
The Committee also finds that out of an amount of GH185,925.00 cedis the Government voted for the purchase of kits, equipment, and accessories for the needs of individual sporting disciplines participating in the Games, only GH44,000.00 was spent on three sports associations, leaving many associations without any kits and accessories.
The Committee finds that the President of the Badminton Association, Mr. Nestor Percy Galley, spent $150.00 of his own money in Maputo to re-string rackets and further bought seven new rackets for his players at the cost of $150.00 each. He also paid $100.00 for the one night he spent at the Paradise which he should not have paid, thus making a total sum of $1,300.00 that he should not have had to pay out of pocket.
OVER-PAYMENT TO TRAFIX CATERING SERVICE
The Committee finds that the Managing Director of Trafix Catering Service, Madam Bella Ahu, was overpaid to the tune of GH48,804.00 cedis. She presented an invoice for feeding 200 athletes and officials for 20 days at the cost of GH20.00 per day, totaling GH80,000.00 cedis. The invoice also included GH231.20 for water plus 15% VAT of GH12,034.00, all of which amounted to GH92,265.88 cedis. However, by our calculations per information received from the General Secretaries about their respective teams, Trafix could actually have fed only 148 athletes and officials over different days that numbered fewer than 20 in the case of virtually all the teams. Because there was actually no contract document stating the unit price per plate, the Committee reverted to the feeding cost of GH18.00 per day, which Trafix had charged the National Sports Council for the Unity Games.
QUALITY OF TAILORING SERVICE BY KWASHIE TAILORS
The Committee finds that Kwashie Tailor & Dry Cleaners failed to supply 205 suits to Team Ghana by 28th August 2011 as stipulated in the contract letter. Because of the late delivery of the suits Team Ghana could not use the suits for the purpose for which they were intended.
The Committee also finds that there was no supervision of the tailoring job undertaken by Kwashie Tailors, because if the job had been supervised it would have been known that only 70 suits had been delivered by the time Team Ghana departed to Maputo. The last suits were delivered on 19th October 2011, that is to say, a whole month after the Maputo Games had officially ended on 18th September.
QUALITY OF TRAVEL SERVICE BY ROYAL DERBY TOURS
The Committee finds Royal Derby Tours to have provided a very poor quality service to the National Sports Council when the latter contracted the company to airlift Team Ghana to Maputo for the All Africa Games. The main reason the company provided the poor quality service was because it did not have the money to secure the airline seats the National Sports Council had ordered.
The Committee finds Royal Derby Tours to be liable for the trauma experienced by 16 Team Ghana passengers who got stranded, and in distress, in South Africa for three days, and who ended up having to travel to Maputo by road.
The Committee finds Royal Derby Tours liable for the luggage of the Disabled Sports athletes and officials which was left behind in South Africa for a good one week. The least Royal Derby Tours could have done, knowing it was going to use Oliver Tambo Airport as a transit airport for over 200 of its passengers many of whom Royal Derby had not been able to secure through passage for, was to have stationed one of its agents in Johannesburg or negotiated with South African Airlines, or another airline, to manage the transit transactions for a fee. After all, this was a very sizeable contract for almost GH1,000,000 cedis.
The Committee finds that Mr. Erasmus Adorkor, the Chef de Mission, failed to exercise appropriate judgment by not using part of the $10,000 imprest he had on him to alleviate the suffering of the disabled athletes. Mr. Adorkor should have arranged for the luggage of the disabled athletes and officials to be airlifted from Johannesburg to Maputo within a day or two of knowing about the plight of 'Disabled Team Ghana'. The disabled athletes, without their wheelchairs could not leave their place of lodging even to go for food; tragically, after the first day their coach, who was picking up food from the cafeteria for all the athletes, was no longer allowed to do so by the cafeteria officials.
Kofi Nti 10 years ago
Thank God for this move! The Italian clubs have shown that they can keep a player going much longer than the others. Remember Maldini playing past 40? Look at Seedorf himself leaving Milan at 37 or so. Ess, show them the stuf ... read full comment
Thank God for this move! The Italian clubs have shown that they can keep a player going much longer than the others. Remember Maldini playing past 40? Look at Seedorf himself leaving Milan at 37 or so. Ess, show them the stuff you are made off.
Chief K AB 10 years ago
Michael Essien's stay in Chelsea without enough playing time was very worrying to most-Ghanians. I am so pleased to learn that finally he has taken a decision to bow out to join AC Milan where he will have more playing time. ... read full comment
Michael Essien's stay in Chelsea without enough playing time was very worrying to most-Ghanians. I am so pleased to learn that finally he has taken a decision to bow out to join AC Milan where he will have more playing time. My candid opinion to my son, Essien is that he stays focus, work extra hard to prove all his critics wrong. We,his fans will want him to go an extra mile to excel and be selected as one of the best Africa player and to win the award come the next Africa Best player award ceremony in 2015. I trust the up coming World Cup fiesta will give him the platform to project himself to the admiration of the whole world. Go go go Essien Ghana is behind you!
kwaku antwi 10 years ago
michael is good that you are in milan beacuse ghana need you in brazil
michael is good that you are in milan beacuse ghana need you in brazil
Wish him well.
GO AND ESELL FOR GHANA WE LOVE U SO MUCH,
This is very good for Essien's career. Good luck.
According to media reports in Italy, Essien failed his Milan medicals and the move has temporarily been put on hold.
good move boy
Life is like a revolving door. Essien very good move.
three wins in a row for milan
This will help the 2 midfielders to train for the world cup. Is a big plus for Ghana.
What more would Akwesi Appiah expect, something good and sweet is coming from Italy to mesmerize Ghana's World Cup opponents. May God help all our players to be in good health and strength until the times of the World Cup 201 ...
read full comment
cool move
I BELIEVE AC MILAN IS GOING TO BE A ONE TOUGH TEAM TO BEAT WITH SEEDORF AND HIS BROTHERS .GOOD LUCK TO MILAN THEY NOW HAVE BIG SUPPORT FROM GHANAIAN FANS AND I AM NO. ONE ,NO MORE CHELSEA .
A dream come true. Good bye to boring days for Essien. Life begins again. Essien will be great and great again. Congrats good boy.
What a change - the first Ghana-man to be happy for his brother's success!
ESSEIN WILL GET THE CHANCE TO PLAY AGAINST CRISTIANO RONALDO OF PORTUGAL TO PREPARE HIM FOR THE WORLD CUP WHEN GHANA PLAYS PORTUGAL
Of course, it's a bitter sweet experience for both coach and player , otherwise like father and son. Mourinhno is a Portuguese and Ghana and Essien will play against his home country, Portugal.
Professionalism aside and Essi ...
read full comment
Corruption here, Corruption there, Corruption everywhere: ¢8.8 Billion Maputo Scandal Pt. 2 ...GH¢808,955.00 and US$2.2 Million for 232 Contingent
Documents intercepted by the Front Page newspaper suggests financial imp ...
read full comment
Thank God for this move! The Italian clubs have shown that they can keep a player going much longer than the others. Remember Maldini playing past 40? Look at Seedorf himself leaving Milan at 37 or so. Ess, show them the stuf ...
read full comment
Michael Essien's stay in Chelsea without enough playing time was very worrying to most-Ghanians. I am so pleased to learn that finally he has taken a decision to bow out to join AC Milan where he will have more playing time. ...
read full comment
michael is good that you are in milan beacuse ghana need you in brazil
Good news