Stephen Keshi
The Nigeria Football Federation has said it is not obliged to employ Stephen Keshi as Super Eagles coach.
The federation also expects Keshi to stay more at home and watch Glo Premier League matches if he signs the new contract proposed to him.
Chairman, Technical Committee of the NFF, Felix Anyasi-Agwu, who spoke to Supersport on Monday said since Keshi is not a foreigner, he should be able to work more at home and monitor the country’s players in the local league.
Anyasi-Agwu was reacting to the terms in of the new contract which reportedly contained clauses which Keshi said he will find difficult to work with.
“We are not under any instruction; we are not mandated to do anything relating to this particular issue. All these are creations by some sections of the media,” he said.
“The terms of the contract you are talking about are mere speculations because they are not meant to be made public in the first instance.
“But everybody knows that it is a mental and normal thing. A national team coach who is a Nigerian should spend time in Nigeria. I don’t know about if he is a foreigner.
“He has to watch the league matches, monitor the players and do his personal assessment of the players to see what is wrong.
“If we bring in a foreigner, he delegates, undertakes and travels around to pick players all over the world.
“But as I had said, it is all speculations. It is not from me to make this contract public. It is actually meant for Keshi and we are waiting for his response to the contract we offered him.”
During his first tenure, the NFF and Keshi had disagreements concerning his trips abroad which made him unavailable for some of their meetings. In one of such disagreements, the coach was issued a query.
The chairman admitted that the NFF still owes Keshi while debunking claims that the federation is under pressure to employ the former Eagles captain.
“The NFF and the Technical Committee are doing their jobs. It is what we have to do and that is what we have done. We are not under any obligation to give Keshi a contract.
“We are giving him a contract because we see that he deserves a contract; it is now left for him to go through the contract and see if there are areas where we can discuss. I think that is the essence of a contract talk.
“There is nobody in this world that does not owe. Even the Federal Government owes, so the talk of one month or two months’ salary being owed is no issue.”
Meanwhile Keshi has reportedly said he would not agree to the contract with the federation terming it a ‘slavery contract’.
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