Retraction: B.A United players and coaches dying of hunger

By Raymond Yeboah

I wish to withdraw some comments passed in paragraph 3 of my

article: B/A United players and coaches dying of hunger published on Ghanaweb

(http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/SportsArchive/artikel.php?ID=267758)

and Sports in Ghana last week.

I wish to hereby retract the statement: “The purpose of his

take-over of the team is because he was thinking of using the team as

collateral for huge bank loans but in actual fact he is just making a mockery

of the supporters of the club,” and hereby declare that I did not intend any

malice.

I did not mean his intention to take over the team was to get bank

loans as has been implied in certain quarters. I only mean to say that he did

not have enough money to take over the running of a big club with big expenses

like B.A. United.

Indeed I want to stress that current developments within the team

shows how ineffective they are to manage a team as BA United as I intended to

explain in my article. The coach, David Amoah has quit the club to vindicate my

article that because only part of his enticement fee was paid, no salary

according to him.

Even he was subjected to humiliation at two guest houses he was

made to reside at by the club’s management, his personal belongings were seized

as a result of non-payment of accommodation fee. So if a coach suffers like

this at the hands of the so called CEO and his management, you can only imagine

what the playing body are going through.

I still stand by my point that the team’s current league position

and this latest technical discrepancies means Sttugart must honourably resign, he

has failed.

I hereby below reproduce the article again without the ‘fateful’ paragraph

3:

BA United are in trouble! After the taking over of the team by

Kwabena Kyere Stuttgart, many were of the view that he was going to help the team

rise from the doldrums but information reaching Ark Sports indicate that the

players are not getting enough support from the management.

One of the players approached me amid screaming of hunger because he had not

eaten for one week. The team owes the players almost 5 months of unpaid

salaries including the technical team. Stuttgart, thought initially the name

B/A United was going to fetch the team enough money so he came with bare hands

and nothing. If you don't have money, you don’t have to force yourself to go

and lead a team like B/A United.

B/A United is no longer an enticing team to attract any loan or sponsorship

from any organization.

The most annoying aspect is that he has formed another club, Young

Apostles, a division two club knowing he can’t pay even the division 2 team. I

always says that a sports journalist can't handle a football team because they

are thrifty in nature. Micky Charles set that bad example there for all to see

but B/A United did not take advice from that and appointed Stuttgart too. B/A

United must be sold to an external person or body of persons who can use their

own money to turn around the flagging fortunes of the team.

I supported Stuttgart at first but later on realised he was not doing the team

any good based upon the management team he named to help his administration. Where

is the communication director of the club? He is no longer in Sunyani where the

club is based.

Stuttgart is a failure, the earlier he resigned the better because the position

of the club on the division one league log currently foretells how badly the

team will become if he continues as a CEO.