{"id":374903,"date":"2025-07-13T00:08:45","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T00:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2025\/07\/13\/justice-blay-really-messed-up-agyemang-badu-on-public-outburst-against-kotoko-teammates\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T00:08:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T00:08:45","slug":"justice-blay-really-messed-up-agyemang-badu-on-public-outburst-against-kotoko-teammates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2025\/07\/13\/justice-blay-really-messed-up-agyemang-badu-on-public-outburst-against-kotoko-teammates\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Justice Blay really messed up\u2019 \u2013 Agyemang Badu on public outburst against Kotoko teammates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/877\/87726800.295.jpg\" alt=\"Former Ghana international, Emmanuel Agyemang Badu\" title=\"Former Ghana international, Emmanuel Agyemang Badu\" width=\"295\" height=\"218\" \/> <span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Former Ghana international, Emmanuel Agyemang Badu<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-touch-callout: none; -moz-user-select: none; -ms-user-select: none; user-select: none;\">\n<p id=\"article-123\">Former Ghana international, Emmanuel Agyemang Badu, has expressed disappointment in Justice Blay following the midfielder\u2019s recent public allegations against his former teammate, Kwame Opoku.<\/p>\n<p>Blay, who Asante Kotoko released in June 2025, claimed in a radio interview that Opoku betrayed their friendship by dating a woman he had introduced to him as his girlfriend.<\/p>\n<p>He said this led to tensions between them in camp, although they maintained professionalism on the pitch.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the controversy, Agyemang Badu told Luv FM that Blay should not have ended his time at Kotoko in such a manner after all he contributed to the club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJustice Blay really messed up. He did so much for Kotoko and shouldn\u2019t leave the club under such circumstances,\u201d Badu said.<\/p>\n<p>Blay\u2019s comments have drawn mixed reactions among fans and former players, with many questioning the wisdom in making such personal matters public.<\/p>\n<p>His departure from the club followed news that he was no longer in the technical plans for the upcoming season.<\/p>\n<p>Kwame Opoku, the player at the centre of Blay\u2019s accusations, rejoined Kotoko in January 2025 after three years away from the Porcupine Warriors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Ghana international, Emmanuel Agyemang Badu Former Ghana international, Emmanuel Agyemang Badu, has expressed disappointment in Justice Blay following the midfielder\u2019s recent public allegations against his former teammate, Kwame Opoku. Blay, who Asante Kotoko released in June 2025, claimed in a radio interview that Opoku betrayed their friendship by dating a woman he had introduced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":374904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u2018Justice Blay really messed up\u2019 \u2013 Agyemang Badu on public outburst against Kotoko teammates - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2025\/07\/13\/justice-blay-really-messed-up-agyemang-badu-on-public-outburst-against-kotoko-teammates\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u2018Justice Blay really messed up\u2019 \u2013 Agyemang Badu on public outburst against Kotoko teammates - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former Ghana international, Emmanuel Agyemang Badu Former Ghana international, Emmanuel Agyemang Badu, has expressed disappointment in Justice Blay following the midfielder\u2019s recent public allegations against his former teammate, Kwame Opoku. 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