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Gyan eager to see Muntari and Essien return to the Black Stars

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  • Fabs 9 years ago

    Essien and Muntari have been good servants for the BS BUT it's time to move on. Wakaso, Acquah, Asamoah are core, but there's Aboagye Salifu to name a few.... the young ones have it.
    We have the players there just need the ...
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  • The Don 9 years ago

    Fabs, Well said. These players have served us well, but there is a time for everythig. I believe that we have a young crop of players who are hungry for laurels, so it is time to part ways with the old and make way for the ne ...
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  • Neutral Zone 9 years ago

    Fans, ure right. Let's move on with matured players who want to play as a team without all the drama.

  • Baba 9 years ago

    Asamoah Gyan must join them instead. They did very well for the Blacks Stars (Ghana for that matter).

  • Saint Ghfuo: Nyantakyi must go! 9 years ago

    Gyan, Essien, Muntari, Kpb must all be left off bstar. Use the current young ones and add the yiadom etc...

  • OSEI TAWIAH 9 years ago

    Have you checked out how teams like Ivory Coast drop their experience players? Yes, they do it gradually. I can tell you we lost the AFCON because almost all of our players were inexperienced. The same thing happened in the 2 ...
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  • mugu yaro 9 years ago

    you know good and well that if those two guys were in the picture the snap would have been a total different story and you might probably score more then dozen goals but hey such is life sometimes you must pave way for others ...
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  • ag 9 years ago

    This is wisdom. Absolutely behind and support you

  • Abinnah 9 years ago

    Forget about them. Give the young players more playing time to gain more experience.

  • MotherGhana 9 years ago

    Ghana need these fools lol so badly cuz we could have won this tournament which pains me like hell. Oh Ghana!

  • KUKRUDU-USA 9 years ago

    DO YOU REMEMBER THE OLD GHANAIAN SAYING "POOR AND PROUD"IF SULLEY AND ESSIEN HAD TAKEN THOSE PENALTY KICKS DONT YOU THINK THE RESULT MIGHT HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT ?
    LOL,WE ARE TOO STUPID AND JEALOUS OF THEM TO SEE QUALITY PLAYER ...
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  • MotherGhana 9 years ago

    We would not have gone to the penalties in the place my brother. This is because Asamoah Gyan can well score goals but he need these guys to pass him the ball and without them he couldn't do it by himself. Is that simple? Sm ...
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  • They Say They Say 9 years ago

    Why did Asamoah fail to score the perfect pass from Atsu? Stop crying over spilled milk. People shouldn't be afraid to look to the future. The youth is the future.

  • They Say They Say 9 years ago

    Not to criticize him, Asamoah is not consistent. He has the habit of lifting hope when there's none and disappointment when expected to step up at crucial time. Yes without his goal with Algeria we won't be at final but look ...
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  • Truth 9 years ago

    Asamoa Gyan realised the need to bring maturity into the team. BS is not a colt team . Look at how the CIV mixed the matured with the young. Look at how England Germany and Spain mix it up too.

  • Emmanuel ( Hamburg 9 years ago

    Essien and muntari are coming to replace which players? Without them, black stars are still black stars.

  • They Say They Say 9 years ago

    Good question.

  • anoba 9 years ago

    Suley and muntari must retire to give the zoung and coming but talented ones the opportunity to improve, No matter how big the stage is, those boys must be used and stop bringing the old ones who will always see things differ ...
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  • gbeng 9 years ago

    This article got me thinking; we went to finals without the duo In 2010 Afcon, Angola. Ghana hosted 2008 Afcon with a star studed black stars including Essien and Muntari but we became 3rd. For me I think Ackwah and has reall ...
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  • SALINSA 9 years ago

    just as i kept praying for afriyie acquah to make it into the first team ahead of maxwell konadu's rabiu & badu, now i am on my knees again praying that a certain kofi bekoe be called into the blackstars to partner afriyie ac ...
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  • slimmart 9 years ago

    Do we want confusion again in the Black Stars camp due to the bloated egos of dinosaurs Muntari and Essien? The young ones have shown that they are capable of doing the job. Why rock the boat now? What experience? Each day th ...
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  • Mama Tula 9 years ago

    Yes, the question is do we still need them?? Forget about them especially Muntari, as of course they are almost worn out and will soon be useless to any other team anyway. With the present team you can see a lot of discipline ...
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  • Kuffour 9 years ago

    When was the last time u watched them played

  • Santaclausian, Croydon 9 years ago

    I think what you need to do right now is find out how you can give your all to the BS. You ducked a penalty kick, as a captain, that is a let down. Don't get involved in who comes in or who goes out. Not your decision to make ...
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  • king 9 years ago

    No way, they are not even playing that great

  • BOY KOFI 9 years ago

    Black Stars is not your property,sir.You have done your best,Kindly retire.We appreciate what you have all done but please you don't have what it takes to win a trophy for us so kindly retire honourably now like the past skip ...
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  • OKOROMANSA 9 years ago

    YOU MISS THEM, BUT DO THEY MISS THE TEAM? ARE THEY READY TO RETURN IN THE FIRST PLACE? LOOK AT MUNTARI, WHY CAN'T HE RENDER AN APOLOGY FOR WHAT HE DID, AND HAVE YOU DJAN TRIED TO TALK TO THOSE TWO COLLEAGUES? AS LONG AS THEY ...
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  • Kofi 9 years ago

    Why should the Captain and a striker run away from penalty kicks? Let's compare Gyan to some of the great Ghanaian strikers of the past. He has NEVER impress me with the way he plays. He don't attack. He don't dribble. He loo ...
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  • SALINSA 9 years ago

    i don't want to endorse or take away anything you have spewed out here.
    but you have really poured out.

  • Haile Mengistus Manasseh V11 9 years ago

    Skipper Gyan ! I agree that the duo have a lot to offer but they also have the greatest lesson to learn: HUMILITY.
    Pride is the road map to falling and no matter how endowed one may be, it must be remembered that we have the ...
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  • Truth Hurts 9 years ago

    Gyan, I agree with you 100% that we missed those two experienced players. The BS needs a good blend of both experienced and young and upcoming players. There is a lot of rot in the administration of the BS and if anything we ...
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  • Yaw Brefo, Bechem 9 years ago

    GYAN has not talked to the duo because of the captaincy problem. These guys are more senior than GYAN but he wrestled the skippers role from them. Now catching up on him .
    GYAN has done a lot for us but has no leadership abi ...
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  • luca 9 years ago

    He wrestled the captaincy from them????...hey wat drug are you on?
    The rest of your comment I won't bother to touch on.

  • Abdulai Abdul Mumin 9 years ago

    it will be a much pleasure for them to come back. Sulley Muntari opted for what is right. Because it is an agreed terms for them to play and be paid some amount. if there's going to be another deductions it should be another ...
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  • King George 9 years ago

    This reminds me of the Akan adage that if u are afraid of divorce u will not get a good spouse. These players though without them the team will get no where. Now the team is even stronger and there is unity and discipline amo ...
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  • Soothsayer 9 years ago

    Keep this team and add accam, warris and kwadwo asamuah.leave out fatau and bring back kwara.

  • Boat, Boat, the New Yorker 9 years ago

    If Jordan stop being selfish and release the ball to others to score, the BS can do without Muntari and Essien. Until then, Gyan and many others will definitely miss the duo.

  • KING LOMOTEY 9 years ago

    Stupid reason. You guys must stop hating Jordan.

  • Boat, Boat, the New Yorker 9 years ago

    I Insist.

  • Truth 9 years ago

    Jordan must "grow". He kicks to the side netting when he could have passed the ball. Coaches have been giving him the chances but he still does not impress. He has the potential to get to the top. He must not delay

  • KING LOMOTEY 9 years ago

    JORDAN plays for first division team in France called L'Orient. If he is as horrible as his haters in Ghana allege, he wouldn't have made it.

  • john blay 9 years ago

    is good for asamoah gyan to wlcm two of them

  • KING LOMOTEY 9 years ago

    GFA & politicians can not and should not determine who is a Blach Star. That decision rests with the coach and his technical staff alone.

    Essien & Muntari as Black Stars, in my opinion, would have made a hell lots of diffe ...
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  • M.D 9 years ago

    Is long over due Gyan is even hippocrete shame on to u Gyan.

  • de do 9 years ago

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  • FREEMAN 9 years ago

    We had the best available. Those absent could have done better or WORSE. We got hard-working stamina-filled players like Wakasu, Baba Rahaman, Amartey and Kswesi Appiah. If Gyan wanted Essien and Muntari then it was for some ...
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  • Amissah 9 years ago

    Sometimes,you simply don't understand Ghanaians.The team is ok now but they still want to blend the old stars to destroy the team's formation again.
    Anyone,who bring in these two must be ready to bear the consequences.All th ...
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  • miss kay 9 years ago

    but you paaa for wot reason? the black stars performed uniquely without those two. or do you want to join them? certainly they are not welcome wae. without them the team is excellent so please sir!

  • Justman 9 years ago

    THIS IS FOOLISH TALK FROM ASAMOAH GYAN.ARE WE GOING BACKWARDS?EVEN GYAN HIMSELF IS STRUGGLING TO KEEP FORM HOW MUCH MORE THE AGED ESSIEN.THE THREE OF YOU-GYAN, MUNTARI & ESSIN ARE OVER THE HILLS. YOU WILL ONLY SEE DECLINE. IT ...
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  • Mohammed Faisal. wa 9 years ago

    Infact, Mother Ghana needs their service despite the uncouth behavioural attitude.

  • kiss my ass 9 years ago

    Asamoah gyan bull shit why you didn't say that before your stupid afcons? after you fucking lost the cup and you realized there is essien and muntari? they not coming to ungrateful country again!!! NEVER AGAIN!!!

  • CNN 9 years ago

    We don't need those two amigos.. especially Essien, he is way past his prime and has nothing to offer the Black Stars. I think the team can benefit from a changed muntari but I see no reason why the coach should be pursing hi ...
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  • ATO KWAMENA, USA. 9 years ago

    LET'S LEAVE THE PRESENT TO THE NEXT GENERATION. THE ESSIEN'S AND THE MUNTARI'S HAVE SERVED THEIR TIME AND IS TIME TO GIVE THE NEW GENERATION THEIR TIME TO PICK UP. WHAT THEY SHOWED AT THE ENDED AFRICAN CUP IS GOOD ENOUGH TO C ...
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  • STEVE 9 years ago

    Gyan is the captain of the Black Stars, and in my opinion, his comments on the issue of Muntari & Essien did not go down well. Are they the only players who currently have issues with the national team after the WC in Brazil? ...
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  • libaski (abenfuo) 9 years ago

    you now realise our big mistake,in football or any sport you have to blend the old and the new players to achieve results.in high profile games you need maturity,charater and experience to achieve results.but now i think the ...
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  • Opanin Koo Kwakye 9 years ago

    Asamoah Gyan, you may mean well, but please stay out of it. These players including Kelvin might be good players but we don't need their indisciplined behaviour in the team to spoil the crop of young, innocent and good player ...
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  • Peter 9 years ago

    Oh no.

  • Alhassan abdul rashid 9 years ago

    Is good for their come back, if they are have the qualities the best coach is in need.

  • Tony S. 9 years ago

    They are bad influence. Keep them way!