The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has refused to be drawn into any war of words with the head coach of the senior national team of Nigeria Eric Chelle as talks intensify over a new deal, OwnGoalNigeria.com reports.
Reports went viral last week on the demands made by the coach, who also switched to a new agency and has been linked with the managerial job at Nantes where his new agent has very good rapport with the team’s management.
He is also a target for the senior national team of Angola, but he still has a year to go on his $55,000 a month salary with Nigeria with the NFF accepting to extend it on the words of the National Sports Commission (NSC), despite the fact that Chelle failed to meet the target of reaching the final of the AFCON.
Chelle’s demand which was leaked over the weekend has 19 conditions, which includes a $130,000 a month salary proposal among others but a chieftain of the NFF says they are all basics contained in his existing contract bar two.
” Let me say here that there is nothing wrong with the 19 items I have been seeing in the media. I know that a lot of it are in his present deal and it’s just proposal for negotiations”, he said.
” Bar two items that I think are a bit outlandish. The rest are good things to have in any contract of a senior national team coach.
“The salary as you are aware is negotiable because he is presently earning less than what Jose Peseiro earned in his first year as coach. Chelle is earning the revised salary of Peseiro before he left. So he deserved more if we are serious about extending his deal”, he stated.
Mohammed Mowiz Suleiman
