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All is not well in the camp of Nigerian League Champions, Enyimba FC as Head Coach Finidi George has exposed details of how the club management signed and registered players without his consent.<\/p>\n
Finidi George said \u201cOut of 19 new players that were brought in, I had knowledge of only 4 of them. When I saw the quality of the players that were brought, I called Ekwueme the Sporting Director and asked what the target for the season is, he said it is just to stabilize in the league as the focus is to settle down first\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIdeally, before registering players for any competition, the coaches must be consulted to submit the list. But that wasn\u2019t the case here.<\/p>\n
\u201d For whatever flimsy reason, we were not consulted and they did the registration themselves. As a result, some of the players we would have needed were not registered. It was much later that the sporting director just sent us the list of players that they had already registered.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter the first leg, they dropped some players from travelling for the second leg in Casablanca, claiming that they couldn\u2019t get them visas. We had to protest it strongly before it was rectified. We later found out that there was more to it.<\/p>\n
\u201cCan you imagine that we went for such a game without the goalkeeping and fitness coaches? Myself and Yema were the only coaches that travelled for that game. That is very strange to me.<\/p>\n
\u201cEveryone has to put the interest of the club first because until this is done, we would only be joking.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe arrived Uyo on October 17 with the idea to have as many training sessions as possible on the grass pitch in Uyo since we are more used to our synthetic pitch.<\/p>\n
\u201d But we couldn\u2019t really achieve that because the management failed to make the right arrangements with the stadium authorities.<\/p>\n
\u201d As a result, we improvised and had one of our training sessions at a primary school, while another training session was cut short because of the same poor arrangements.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn fact, we played a team that was more used to the playing surface than us, the home team. It was obvious that we were at a disadvantage as a team used to artificial pitches and this really affected us.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlso, we had only three trainings with the AFL match ball, meanwhile, our opponents had enough time to get used to it. That was why you could see my players struggling with their control, passing and shooting.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is sad to see such statements being released when all hands should be on deck and things should be more organized to enable a positive environment for all.<\/p>\n
\u201d Yes, there have been issues, but I remained patient because I believed that we could harmonise efforts and work things out; but here we are.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe issue with the team is obvious, and it has nothing to do with the coaches. The same coaches won the league with less goals conceded and highest goal scored. We won the best Super 6 ever organized, scored the highest and conceded the least number of goals,\u201d the Super Eagles of Nigeria Assistant concluded.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n