The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has disclosed that it won’t be able to pay coach Stephen Keshi the 10million Naira monthly salary he has asked for in order to continue in his role as handler of the national team. The football house has agreed to renegotiate a contract with the Big Boss whose previous agreement ended after the World Cup, Spokesman of the NFF Technical Committee, Paul Bassey disclosed this shortly after a meeting held at the Glass House Secretariat of the NFF on Wednesday. The Committee has advised the NFF board to negotiate with the coach on what they can afford, that will be acceptable to the coach. Media reports indicate that the NFF is willing to pay Seven million Naira, a significant rise from the Five million Naira the trainer earned in his first three years in charge.
"There is nothing wrong about renewing Keshi’s contract, at least for the sake of continuity. But some of us still believe that if we must move forward, we need to look back. For instance, we have to sit down and look at the Brazil 2014 World Cup and see where we went wrong because we can’t just pretend as if nothing happened. Meanwhile addressing newsmen after emergence board meeting of the NFF, Emeka Inyama said the acting president of the NFF, Mike Umeh has been mandated to finalize the terms for the reviewed contract with Keshi within a week.
"As an advisory body, we have advised the board to negotiate with Keshi on what is obtainable to them and acceptable to Keshi. We read in the papers that he said he wants 10 million Naira as monthly salary and [assistant coach] Sylvanus Okpala back. “The board can't afford the 10million Naira monthly salary if we want to be realistic. That was why we advised the board to negotiate with him and agree on what will be obtainable to them and acceptable to the coach," Bassey said.
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