Thursday, July 31, 2014

NFF plans to negotiate lesser salary with Stephen Keshi


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.