*Saintfiet worried
Former Nigeria International Sam Sodje said it was nothing but a disgrace that the Nigeria Football Federation(NFF) is still dilly-dallying over the appointment of a substantive coach for the Super Eagles months after coach Finidi George walked away.
Sodje who made his name across English Premier League Clubs including West Brom and Portsmouth, said it’s unexplainable that the NFF has yet to name a replacement for Finidi with the qualifiers for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations due in September.
“It’s just sad that we are still talking about the appointment of a coach and it’s very unfortunate that it’s not only football that has gone done but sports generally in the country has really gone down , “ a miffed Sodje told Brila fm. “We have to agree that we have lost touch of what is going on ; and not having a coach yet at this time is terrible .
“Maybe having an interim manager would not have been a bad idea but we should have settled for this long time.
“We needed somebody in there because we ’re expecting to win. We just have to hope that we would
“But we have to agree that preparation in this country is ridiculous. We are far away from where every country is; and this is really a disgrace,” he affirmed.
In a related development, Tom Saintfiet, who has accepted the offer from the NFF to be the next coach of the Super Eagles, is reportedly becoming increasingly worried by the delay of his appointment.
The Belgian coach, according to Score Nigeria , is equally concerned about what he termed as bad press he has been getting from Nigeria, adding the managerial statistics attributed to him are “fake”.
He has made his financial demands to the NFF, which are regarded as “affordable”, but he has yet to receive a final word from the NFF.
The former Gambia and Togo coach also wants a definite answer on the Super Eagles post so that he could begin a proper disengagement from the Philippines, where he is in charge of the national team.
In March 2012, he was designated as NFF technical director only for sports ministry to reverse that decision on the basis that a Nigerian could also do the job.
