Ghana FA boss, Kwesi Nyantakyi
Re-elected President of the Ghana Football Association, Kwasi Nyantayi has hits out at Avram Grant’s agent Saif Rubie after his recent comment against the standard of the local league.
Saif Rubie who last Tuesday granted an interview with BBC which he stated that the reason why his client decided to overstay his leave was to scout for quality players in Europe because the Ghana premier league lacks quality due to number of reasons.
“He sleeps and drinks Ghanaian football but at the moment the quality of the league in Ghana is not up there due to a number of reasons.
“Any player that does well in Ghana goes to play in second or third division teams in Europe or Asia in places like Thailand and Vietnam and obviously for Avram, these are not the kind of players he will look to pick for the national team so the pool of players in the Ghanaian league is not the standard that it should be.
“You look at the players that he has picked for the national team, you can’t really argue with one who has come and not performed at the highest level.”
But in a sharp response, the Ghana Football Association chief, Kwasi Nyantakyi has hits out at Saif Rubie describing his comments as misguided and unfounded.
‘It is a misguided and unfounded comment from him [Saif Rubie] because he doesn’t leave in Ghana unless he is speaking on behalf of the coach and we asked the coach about this matter, his personal private discussion on it and he has disassociated himself completely from that and I don’t think he was speaking for the coach,” Nyantakyi told Metro TV.
He continued: “And I also want to placed it on record that those comments are unfortunate, they are not true for someone to say that the premier league lacks quality. May be he is talking about the standard of the league but when you look at the current call up there are two local players, Fatau Dauda and Richard Ofori so how did he select them if he didn’t pay attention to the local league or he think about them and just selected them and I think we have to be a bit fair and objective in not condemning outright the quality of our local league”.
