Avram Grant saying Ghana lack strikers has only identified his own failings

Avram Grant's statement that the Black Stars lack strikers when Asamoah Gyan or Majeed Waris is out of the team cannot pass unchallenged.

"The truth is that Ghana lacks strikers because there are many midfield players. When Warris and Gyan are not playing, we lack opportunities," he said.

If Grant cannot reconcile his squad, but makes such hue cry, Ghanaians can settle that the problem ahead is one of fear, anxiety and accident in waiting at AFCON 2017.

The Israeli is effectively telling us that he did not identify this problem on his arrival, and even in his rein when Ghana did miss the full fitness of Gyan at AFCON 2015.

At AFCON 2015, it was possible to say with certainty a generation of Ghana’s pool of strikers had not only fallen short but has been lost in a cycle of fatalism.

Grant has failed to break free from his predecessors; from under their remote and austere set – up that relied on Gyan’s goal scoring prowess for almost a decade – one goal project.

Grant was brought in as a big coach to stimulate each department hence; we cannot ride the usual carousel of excuses as the AFCON 2017 and the World Cup qualifiers looms.

We admired Grant’s presence here; we expected him to invite fresh lads to make name for themselves by chopping off the old order down; we expected Grant to offer us players that we could say he discovered; and we expected Grant to offer us an attack with appetite, bite, ambition, swagger, pace, eagerness and a relish for action.

The tone and mood of Grant over Ghana in shortage of strikers seem the pace of change is insufficiently radical to achieve an AFCON trophy revolution.

The mystic tone to Grant’s complain suggest he needed to purge those who wasted space in the team and rush in the services of younger and hungrier recruits.

The present still cannot overshadow the past. Grant must be careful enough as we only hope his comment is not a phantom bid to prepare our minds of any future eventualities.

We can also accept it was not a comment with a cock – and – bull mission to create confusion perhaps, we have misunderstood him.

However, the grandstanding worry is Grant’s failure to have created strikers of his own than to be wailing.

The problem at his core has been rendered almost invisibly by his own repeated mutinous actions to marginalize a host of Ghanaian strikers.

Avram Grants peripatetic method of scouting players is far from the strikers he is presented so far.

Saying Ghana lack strikers after 18 months in charge of the Black Stars is a peculiarly calamitous act that depicts derision and national angst.

He (Grant) knows the striking position is a sharpened sword any team must carry and nothing undermines a coach position faster than having strikers who are incapable of fulfilling the most glamorous brief.

No other position attracts such merciless scrutiny than the striking department.

We have been poignant to see how Grant has killed off Mahatma Otoo from his team whilst, Ebenezer Assifuah has become just a bit part. Grant offered David Accam numerous call – ups but we saw no effectiveness.

We still witness some funny call – ups but who are you to question a gaffer’s call – up?

Not having the right to question Grant’s call – up is where we are now. Grant is now delivering a sermon on peril of striker’s shortage. Equally, we see Grant at critical juncture.

As things stand without Gyan at the AFCON 2017, we may lack the mobility, sharpness, and all - round dexterity in – front of goal.

Grant failed to offer any Ghanaian striker around the world patience and sympathy to fill in the boots of our emperor No9 – Asamoah Gyan.

The Black Stars’ top scorer was given the opportunity to grow and mature in the team.

When a manager strikes the jackpot by creating a striker, the whole life of the team takes a disproportionate jump because the goal scorer brings the smiles and brings the happiness.

Today we’ve seen England offering Marcus Rashford and Dele Alli the chance to play at EURO 2016.

Grant could have had faith in Benjamin Tetteh and Emmanuel Boateng, who were part of the last Ghana under - 20 team and also doing well in Europe, to play for Ghana.

Grant has already made all the hedonistic call ups. Fairness and logic dictate that he keeps his short coming to himself and desist from making such nagging comments to deliver the AFCON 2017 trophy.

In the international sphere, we hired a coach with a strong pedigree and presented him arrogated powers to build a strong side.

Avram Grant must not descend into a churn by illustrating perils and pointing a finger but all he is done now is only identified his own failings.