There are confirmed reports that Nigeria
coach, Stephen Keshi will not receive as much pay as he got during his
first tenure as the Super Eagles coach. It was learnt on authority on
Tuesday that the new contract being offered him by the Nigeria Football
Federation has his salary as N4m per month as against the N5m he was
paid by the previous administration.
An official of the federation who asked not to be quoted because he was
not authorised to speak on the issue said the current economic situation
in the country was put into consideration in arriving at the salary for
the former Eagles captain.
The other argument put forward by some
other members is that the coach will not be as busy as he was during the
last tenure with one major tournament already gone during the
negotiation as Nigeria failed to qualify for the 2015 Africa Cup of
Nations which held in Equatorial Guinea with Keshi in charge.
It was gathered that Keshi’s manager had pressed for N7m which the NFF officials said they could not afford.
Apart from the cut in salary, the coach has also been offered a two-year deal which will terminate in 2017. Keshi’s new contract also demands that he
gets to at least the semi final stage of the 2017 Africa Nations Cup
before any further extension can be discussed.
The NFF president was widely quoted on
Tuesday by some online portals as saying that the federation expects to
receive the response to the offer from Keshi this week. The coach is
also in the running for Burkina Faso job against others.
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