Coach Stephen Keshi has fired at NFF boss Amaju Pinnick, insisting the federation believe they are doing him a favour by appointing him to lead Nigeria again but he is ready to walk away.
There is no love lost between Keshi and NFF boss Pinnick and this was further underlined by the latest statements by the coach.
“The NFF thinks without Nigerian football there is no other place to coach. This is a very wrong assumption,” fired Keshi.
“I love to coach Nigeria, but they think they are doing us a favour because that is the message – that they are doing us a favour to appoint a Nigeria coach. But that is not true, if they don’t want us, we would go somewhere else and coach.”
This week, Pinnick disclosed Keshi could resume as Nigeria coach should he agree on a new deal, which will pay him far less than what he received when he first headed the Super Eagles.
Keshi also said the NFF are yet to pay him salaries for two months as well as the win bonus for the 3-1 home win over Sudan in a 2015 AFCON qualifier.
“I heard also Amaju said he has paid us everything, that he is not owing us. It is a lie, big-time lie. He is owing us two months plus our winning bonus for the game against Sudan,” said the coach.
“What is he talking about? Because I am keeping quiet, I don’t want to talk? Now if they want me to talk, I will start talking and let Nigerians know what is happening.
“I will let Nigerians know what is happening. I don’t understand, how can Amaju, who says he is the president of Nigerian football, be lying to Nigerians? Is that how he wants to run Nigeria Football?
“They are owing us money they have not paid and instead of him to say okay there is no money yet or something, he is telling everyone he has paid everything.”
Burkina Faso dumps him, appoints Roh
For the second time in as many attempts by out-of-contract Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi to land a coaching job after leading Nigeria to the World Cup in Brazil, the coach has failed in his bid to become coach of Burkina Faso.
Keshi first indicated interest in the South Africa job after coach Gordon Ingesund’s contract was not extended. In a twist of fate, Keshi was ignored and Shakes Mashaba was appointed. Mashaba has since taken the Bafana Bafana to the Nations Cup. He led the team to stop Keshi and the Eagles from going to the Nations Cup in Equatorial Guinea.
Keshi has again lost out in his bid to replace Paul Put as Coach of the Burkina Faso National team, following the appointment of Genort Rohr.
52 year-old Keshi was rumored to be the front runner for the job due to his age, but it was the same case as when he was linked to the managerial role in South Africa and Burkina Faso, the country FA opted against naming him coach.
He was the preferred choice of the president of Burkina Faso FA colonel Sita Sangare, but it has now been confirmed that former coach of Niger and Gabon, Genort Rohr, was named coach instead of Keshi.
However, the news comes as a relief to the president of the Nigeria Football Federation Amaju Pinnick, who said a few days ago, that he prays Keshi turns down Burkina Faso and commits himself to a new deal, with the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF).
According to Pinnick the AFCON 2013 winner will be given new terms tomorrow, to continue in his role as coach of the Super Eagles, after working without a contract during Nigeria’s failed attempt to qualify for the Cup of Nations.
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There is no love lost between Keshi and NFF boss Pinnick and this was further underlined by the latest statements by the coach.
Keshi
“I love to coach Nigeria, but they think they are doing us a favour because that is the message – that they are doing us a favour to appoint a Nigeria coach. But that is not true, if they don’t want us, we would go somewhere else and coach.”
This week, Pinnick disclosed Keshi could resume as Nigeria coach should he agree on a new deal, which will pay him far less than what he received when he first headed the Super Eagles.
Keshi also said the NFF are yet to pay him salaries for two months as well as the win bonus for the 3-1 home win over Sudan in a 2015 AFCON qualifier.
“I heard also Amaju said he has paid us everything, that he is not owing us. It is a lie, big-time lie. He is owing us two months plus our winning bonus for the game against Sudan,” said the coach.
“What is he talking about? Because I am keeping quiet, I don’t want to talk? Now if they want me to talk, I will start talking and let Nigerians know what is happening.
“I will let Nigerians know what is happening. I don’t understand, how can Amaju, who says he is the president of Nigerian football, be lying to Nigerians? Is that how he wants to run Nigeria Football?
“They are owing us money they have not paid and instead of him to say okay there is no money yet or something, he is telling everyone he has paid everything.”
Burkina Faso dumps him, appoints Roh
For the second time in as many attempts by out-of-contract Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi to land a coaching job after leading Nigeria to the World Cup in Brazil, the coach has failed in his bid to become coach of Burkina Faso.
Keshi first indicated interest in the South Africa job after coach Gordon Ingesund’s contract was not extended. In a twist of fate, Keshi was ignored and Shakes Mashaba was appointed. Mashaba has since taken the Bafana Bafana to the Nations Cup. He led the team to stop Keshi and the Eagles from going to the Nations Cup in Equatorial Guinea.
Keshi has again lost out in his bid to replace Paul Put as Coach of the Burkina Faso National team, following the appointment of Genort Rohr.
52 year-old Keshi was rumored to be the front runner for the job due to his age, but it was the same case as when he was linked to the managerial role in South Africa and Burkina Faso, the country FA opted against naming him coach.
He was the preferred choice of the president of Burkina Faso FA colonel Sita Sangare, but it has now been confirmed that former coach of Niger and Gabon, Genort Rohr, was named coach instead of Keshi.
However, the news comes as a relief to the president of the Nigeria Football Federation Amaju Pinnick, who said a few days ago, that he prays Keshi turns down Burkina Faso and commits himself to a new deal, with the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF).
According to Pinnick the AFCON 2013 winner will be given new terms tomorrow, to continue in his role as coach of the Super Eagles, after working without a contract during Nigeria’s failed attempt to qualify for the Cup of Nations.
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/02/keshi-blasts-nff-says-he-is-ready-to-walk-away/#sthash.CzPh7dTf.dpuf
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