{"id":445140,"date":"2017-12-08T21:00:37","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T21:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/08\/hearts-of-oak-midfielder-bemoans-loss-of-key-players-ahead-of-next-season\/"},"modified":"2017-12-08T21:00:37","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T21:00:37","slug":"hearts-of-oak-midfielder-bemoans-loss-of-key-players-ahead-of-next-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/08\/hearts-of-oak-midfielder-bemoans-loss-of-key-players-ahead-of-next-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearts of Oak midfielder bemoans loss of key players ahead of next season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Friday,  8 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>GHANAsoccernet.com <\/p>\n<p>2017-12-08<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/47913241.295.jpg\" alt=\"Samudeen Ibrahim CUTT\" title=\"Samudeen Ibrahim CUTT\" width=\"295\" height=\"211\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Samudeen Ibrahim, Hearts of Oak midfielder<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125817976607\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817976607\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1512766837_879_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Hearts of Oak midfielder Samudeen Ibrahim has lamented on the departure of some key players of the side ahead of the upcoming season.<\/p>\n<p>The Phobians have been hit by the departures of last season&#8217;s key cogs such as Kwame Kizito, Leonard Tawiah, Thomas Abbey and Vincent Atinga following the expiration of their respective contracts.<\/p>\n<p>And according to the silky midfielder, the club will miss the experience and astuteness of the aforementioned players as they seek to end their nine-year trophy drought.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s very sad news for me because, it\u2019s not easy to be with such players and later lose them. It will affect the team a lot, so I was very sad when I heard the news,\u2019 Ibrahim said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I don\u2019t have control over anyone, so I think that is football for you, you cannot stay in one club forever. They also have their own reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cDefinitely, is not easy to recruit a player and then for his first season gel with the team. It won\u2019t be that easy, so definitely we are going to miss them. And is going to affect the club no matter what,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The Phobians finished 3rd at the end of the last season\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n<div class=\"related_articles\" style=\"width: 100%;\">\n<div style=\"clear: both; font-size: 90%; background-color: #eeeaea; padding: 5px; width: 60%; margin-top: 10px;\">\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border:0; padding:0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/96124592.jpg\" style=\"padding-right:2px;\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"border:0; padding:0;width:100%; vertical-align:middle; font-size:11px;\">Courtesy of <b>GHANAsoccernet.com<\/b> &#8211; Ghana&#8217;s leading football news website. 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