Konadu slams club owners

Bereaved locally based Black Stars coach Maxwell Konadu has expressed grave worry over remarks by club administrators and supporters regarding player selection.

Konadu has come under severe criticisms regarding player selection in the ongoing WAFU tournament in Ghana.

The critics, mainly club owners and supporters, have accused the former Asante Kotoko trainer of preferring Kotoko players in the squad to those of the other clubs.

To Konadu, who has guided the team to the competition’s final, such remarks negatively affect players.

As a result, he cautioned club owners and supporters to desist from the practice.

He revealed that his criteria for selection into the national teams has always been nothing short of current performance and on technical grounds, and not for any parochial interest as speculated in the football circles.

The former Wa All Stars coach mentioned that unlike their foreign-based counterparts, the local components do not have the mental toughness to handle such negative remarks.

“Club owners and supporters of the various clubs should desist from making negative comments suggesting why they don’t earn first team shirts or call-ups.

“We are close to the players and you could tell how such comments affect them when they hear such comments. They have families and so they hear whatever people say about them.

“Some club owners and supporters have given various reasons why their players didn’t get call-ups and selection, and all those reasons are false,” he said on Asempa FM.

Konadu rubbished reports that some of Accra Hearts of Oak fans besieged the team’s camp to demand their unused players, Moro Abubakar and Nuru Sulley.

“As far as I know, fans of Hearts of Oak didn’t come to our hotel to make demand for their players in camp. It is not true and I don’t think Hearts fans will do such a thing.”

Meanwhile, Ghana will take on Senegal in the final of the WAFU Cup today at the Baba Yara Stadium. Togo will meet Benin for the third place fixture.