Gernot Rohr's new contract will destroy the Super Eagles

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Just when the Super Eagles is starting to flourish again, just when Nigerians have confidence that their darling Super Eagles can take on the best teams in the world and come out flying, just when the Super Eagles have a coach that knows how to get results, the Nigerian Football Federation headed by Amaju Pinnick decided it's time to destroy all these progress and return the team to the dark ages.


Last week Amaju Pinnick announced that there will be a clause in Gernot Rohr's new contract that compels the German coach to call up home-based players to the team, a move designed to frustrate the coach rather than help him excel in the job. With many rumours that the German’s contract will not be extended beyond the summer of 2020, Amaju Pinnick is setting in motion many skim to ensure Nigerians agree with his decision not to extend Rohr’s contract by exerting an external influence that will affect dynamics of the team and ultimately affect results.


With Pinnick no longer a bigger player Africa and the world's football politics, his focus has been restricted and limited to Nigeria and where else to exert more control than the Super Eagles. The German has reportedly been more difficult to control especially after a series of positive results that have won him more respect in the Nigerian football sphere. Pinnick now seems to be devising a plan to remove the German and appoint someone who would be at his wimps.


First, of, Gernot Rohr is not responsible for the development of the Nigerian league, that is the job of Amaju Pinnick’s Vice President, Shehu Dikko and Pinnick himself. The NPFL is dead under them. The league has struggled to attract investment, sponsorship, TV coverage and patronage and now more recently, the league has become a league where champions are selected not won after 38 games. It is simply ridiculous to compare Gernot Rohr with managers of other African countries, not to mention the top leagues in the world. In a continent where the South African Premier League (PSL) can boast of a $68m, about N24.5 billion, in revenue, it is a shame on Pinnick and his vice president that they are now delegating the development of the league to Gernot Rohr.


Ultimately the move to bring NPFL players to the Super Eagles is to promote them, but the Super Eagles is not a market where you sell players; it is where your best and most established players play. The best way to promote home-based players is to first get the league on TV, structure the clubs and create a league that can attract fans and ultimately attract investors.


Gbolahan Salami was said to be the best thing in the NPFL for many years and there were numerous calls for his inclusion in the Super Eagles, his paltry games for the Super Eagles didn't promote his career, neither did it help his career in obscure teams in Kazakhstan and now in the second division in Saudi Arabia.


Social media did more for Stephen Odey, MFM big star, who moved to Zurich and now in Genk; than what Super Eagles call-up did for Gbolahan Salami. It is the ultimate example of what TV can bring for Nigerian league players rather than cheap promotion administrators and players clamour for in the Super Eagles. An escape from doing hard work of correcting and growing the league.


Why would you compel your coach to call up players who are presently struggling to even defeat their African counterparts in continental competitions? Isn't the failure of the home-based Super Eagles to qualify for the African Championship (CHAN) against Togo or the fact that no Nigerian clubs have played in the knockout stage of the CAF Champions League in the last seven years, enough reasons to indicate that the quality in the league is nowhere near good enough for the Super Eagles?


Some Nigerians criticize Gernot Rohr for picking Nigerian players in lower divisions or obscure leagues in Europe, ignoring the NPFL players, yet the best NPFL players are fighting for trials and often failing in these so-called obscure le

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which nonsense homebase...homebase that disgrace us at Chan and Wafu tournament abi which one?...

Rickjordan:
which nonsense homebase...homebase that disgrace us at Chan and Wafu tournament abi which one?...

Ogas at the top want to collect black envelopes from the 'homebased' players.

You no understand

It shocking that in a football mad Nationa no local player can be picked in a National team, even Brazil make sure these days that local based players are selected in Selcaö. here in South Africa to have a home based players in Bafana Bafana does not help us as they lack quality when they face strong teams and our players return to SA, they don't have ambition to play abroad.