NFF can start looking for another coach, says Keshi’s agent
Emma Addo, the agent to Stephen Keshi – the out-of-contract Super Eagles coach – has told the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) to start searching for a new coach for the national team as his principal won’t be signing the contract offered to him by the football house.
After a long wait, the NFF offered Keshi a new deal but he was far from impressed describing it a “slave contract”.
Now, his agent said Keshi won’t append his signature on the contract.
“Keshi won’t sign,” he told SL10.ng.
“Nigeria can start looking for another coach. Is that a contract or slavery?
“How can the NFF even come up with such idea?
“For all Keshi did for Nigeria there are better ways of releasing him, surely not this way. I repeat, he won’t sign the NFF slave contract. He is not as hungry or jobless as they think.”
Addo also blamed the NFF for wasting Keshi’s time in looking for another job.
“The NFF wasted his time but now that they are no longer an option, I assure you in a few days’ time my client will be employed,” he said.
“Keshi belongs to the league of few indigenous coaches in Africa who are highly respected and sought after.”
Thank God! Goodbye Stephen Keshi.
I can’t agree less with Keshi’s agent. The problem with Nigerian football is not the coach but the football mgt and until that is sorted, the next coach is bound to fail.