With
Stephen Keshi in the frame to becoming the next coach of the Stallions of
Burkina Faso, it has been gathered that the Nigeria Football Federation will
announce a successor to the former Super Eagles captain almost immediately if
he is named as coach of the Francophone country.
There has
been a ‘deliberate delay tactics’ by the NFF in handing the 52-year old a new
contract, which has seen the Super Eagles without a substantive coach since
Keshi’s contract expired last summer after Nigeria’s exit at the FIFA World Cup
in Brazil.
Reliable
sources at the Glass House have informed that the NFF have a draft of a
contract proposal to Keshi, but they’re sure it will be rejected by the ‘Big
Boss’, as it includes stringent clauses and a pay cut.
The
source said, “there is a proposal they have at the moment, but I’m sure the Big
Boss will not accept it because there are very stringent clauses on how he’ll
work and a pay cut as well.”
Now that
Burkina Faso are having the former Mali coach as one of the candidates as a
possible replacement for sacked Paul Put, the NFF is all ears waiting for the
outcome. A coach will be appointed almost immediately after, if Keshi is named
the Burkina Faso coach.
“They
(NFF) will almost certainly appoint a new coach immediately Keshi is announced
as coach of Burkina Faso. There is a deliberate delay tactics on their part not
to offer him a deal, and since there are no competitive games until June, they
are happy to wait,” a source informed.
Keshi was
fired last October after Nigeria defeated Sudan 3-1 in a 2015 Africa Cup of
Nations qualifier, but was believed to have been reinstated by the presidency,
and as a result, the NFF have found it difficult to get rid of him, even though
he doesn’t have a valid contract with the Glass House.
Keshi is
in contention with French-German, Gernot Rohr and Serbian, Milovan Rajevac to
become the next Burkina Faso coach.
Source: VanguardNG
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