Former Hearts of Oak and now Dreams FC attacker Joseph Esso is the latest player from the Ghana League to join the exodus train after signing for a club in North Africa.
Esso’s move comes just weeks after Kotoko’s Kwame Poku and Daniel Lomotey also joined clubs in Algeria even before the Ghana League will reach the halfway mark.
In recent years, the exodus of Ghanaian players from the top-flight has been a major source of worry to club administrators and supporters but it appears there is no end in sight with many more players set to leave in the coming months.
On Tuesday, March 30, 2021, MC Algiers confirmed their capture of Joseph Esso from Dreams FC.
The 24-year old who has scored 10 goals in the ongoing Ghana League has signed a 3-year contract and becomes the 3rd Ghanaian to move to Algeria in recent times after Daniel Lomotey (ES Setif) & Kwame Opoku (USM Algiers)
Ghanaian strikers have suddenly become the flavour of the month in Algerian football. Algerian clubs went 10 years without a single Ghanaian player (Oppong and Asamoah to Setifin 2011), and now 3 have signed in the space of just a few months.
Esso was part of the Black Stars squad that played against South Africa and Sao Tome in the final two games of the 2022 African Cup of Nations qualifiers.