The preferred choice for the coach of the senior national team of Nigeria Herve Renard has turned his back on the offer to take over as the coach of the senior national team of Nigeria, OwnGoalNigeria. com can exclusively reveal.
Renard quit his role as coach of the women’s team of France following their exit at the Olympic games and made it clear that his desire is to get back to coaching in men’s football.
His preferred option is to work in Africa once again, after the success he achieved handling Zambia and Cote d’Ivoire respectively to AFON glory. He also achieved considerably success with Morocco and also Saudi Arabia.
Talks for him to take over as coach of the Super Eagles were on with his representative with the coach left to focus on his job with the French team. Following their exit he was briefed about the interest from Nigeria and what they are proposing to pay as his wages.
The coach made it clear that the offer is way below what he expects as it falls outside his minimum demand of a yearly salary of $1.5m. His refusal made it impossible for a meeting planned yesterday to fail.
The NFF have now beamed their searchlight on former coach of Gambia Tom Saintfeit, who is presently in charge of the Philippines but has made it clear that the Super Eagles is his dream job and he won’t hesitate to leave his present place if given the job.
Eric Chelle who was picked by the technical committee of the NFF ahead of Belgian is said to have made some demands, which led to a breakdown in talks over handing the job.
We exclusively gathered that he demanded more control, free hand to pick his entire technical crew and also his backroom staff. His demands didn’t sit well with the football house who are notorious for wanting to interfere in the job of coaches of the Nigerian national team.
