Rohr cannot qualify Nigeria for 2018 World Cup, $47,000 salary a waste – Gara-Gombe

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Rohr cannot qualify Nigeria for 2018 World Cup, $47,000 salary a waste – Gara-Gombe

Former member of the Nigeria Football Association (NFA), Shuaibu Gara-Gombe, has blasted the current Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), for approving a $47,000 monthly salary for new Super Eagles coach, Gernot Rohr.
Gara-Gombe stated that paying the coach such a huge salary during the current recession, was a show of insensitivity by football administrators.

“I think this is a colossal waste of public funds, number two, that money should have been used to pay all the coaches in the employ of the NFF including those that are dead instead of splashing it on somebody who is not good enough to take our national team to the next level,” he said.


Gara-Gombe also criticized the process of employing the German coach and wondered why the payment of his salary was shrouded in secrecy.

“Who is going to pay for the salary of the coach? They have not come out even though we heard it was an oil company, which of the oil firms? When they employed Sunday Oliseh, they told us Zenith Bank was going to be responsible for his pay but we don’t know what is happening now, they should be transparent and desist from telling Nigerians lies,” he stressed.

He also said that Rohr is not good enough, to qualify the Eagles for the 2018 World Cup in Russia.

“They have given Rohr the mandate to qualify Nigeria for the World Cup but I can tell you that he will not do that. He cannot get us to Russia because he is not good enough. Mark my word, he will fail,” he concluded.