My Boys Are Dominating Eagles Now – Oliseh

By Chuks Ekpeneru

Former Super Eagles coach, Sunday Oliseh, has given reasons why he will not consider any request to come back and manage Nigeria’s national team adding that the boys he introduced are the ones now dominating the team.

Oliseh who managed the national team between 2015 and 2016, stated that regular salary was not forthcoming from the Nigeria Football Federation.

“I didn’t want the job anymore. Health-wise I was not feeling too good; secondly, we were owed salaries. I was spending money on my health and on my team. I just couldn’t die on the job,” Oliseh said in an Instagram live video chat with The PUNCH.

“Truth is, we have a foreign coach now and from what I heard and know, he is being paid four times the wages Stephen Keshi and I were paid and these are two players (himself and Keshi) who won trophies for Nigeria.

“I’ve never heard Gernot Rohr complain about wages. Keshi, while he was coaching, was always complaining, when I was coaching for four months, I was unpaid, for six months my assistants were unpaid, so I had to leave the job; we were also being frustrated.”

Oliseh stated that he had plans to take the team to the next level before he parted ways with his employers, the NFF.

“I had good plans for the team. You will notice that at a time I brought in (Wilfred) Ndidi, Alex Iwobi, Kelechi Iheanacho, young players who are dominating now. I brought in a world-class goalkeeper (Carl Ikeme) because I felt the old breed were ready to leave.

“The same philosophy I used while with the Eagles was the same philosophy France used at the 2018 World Cup in Russia.

Oliseh played for clubs including Borussia Dortmund and Ajax.

He had a total of 52 caps for the Eagles, scoring two goals between 1993 and 2002.

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