Opeele To Be Ousted?

The interim management team of Asante Kotoko has told current coach Isaac Opeele Boateng they cannot guarantee his stay at the club if a new coach is appointed.

Kotoko have intensified a search for a new coach and some experienced coaches have been contacted by the new management.

Opeele in a letter to the ex-management team stated his desire to revert to his original position as assistant coach.

"If we find out that he's not capable or maybe his not confident and needs help from us we will help him," club legend Reverend Osei Kofi told Ghanasoccernet.com
"He is asking not to be the head coach. If you bring in a new head coach and he decides to bring in his own assistant, what will be the outcome?

"We have just contacted some coaches and we are yet to get a response. We don't know whether we can just ask them to come without an assistant until the end of the season."


My Ultimate Comment:

You sure must have been fed-up with this whole Kotoko conundrum and riddle.

I am even more fed-up with Coach Isaac Opeele who claims to be the ''Mourinho'' of Ghanaian football. This was a coach who sometime past wanted to vacate his post as head coach of Tema-based club Tema Youth because his Mom was conversant with the bashing and insults involved in the worth ethics of a manager.

For a coach who studied and acquired his license in the UK, he sure must have had a fair idea on the sort of invective squalls that are hailed towards coaches when the waves go way ward. Arsene Wenger is the most successful manager in the history of Arsenal FC yet he came under the media spotlight a few weeks ago after 5 trophy less season's. You want to either face this occupational hazard or use your degree you obtained from UCC in a chosen field.

This same coach wanted to divert into the area of politics forgetting that even came with a higher price. Here we are today and all we hear on our various TV and radio stations, newspapers and the internet about his decision to revert to his original position as assistant coach of Kumasi Asante Kotoko.

As a passionate Liverpool supporter, I expect Isaac Boateng to learn from Rafa Benitez (with whom he always brags about tactics and soccer knowledge). He never had the backing of Parry yet he stood on his toes and delivered when it mattered. The sooner Opeele becomes organized the better it would be for his career else labeled as a... One word on your lips I guess: ignominy!

In as much as we want Coach Opeele to be au fait with the hazards of coaching, a bigger amount of Kotoko's free fall from glory should be channeled into the managerial set up.

What’s the gauge set for a coach everywhere in this world? The major request is to win trophies. Abdul Razak. E.K Afranie and Bashiru Hayford after winning trophies for Kotoko were shown the exit door. That’s the Ghanaian version of gratitude. A bit of the blame has to go on the shoulders of the playing body. Like Opeele insinuated, its probable that the players aren’t playing for him because they have been asked not to give off their best on the field of play. Like an inoperable disease, Kotoko's inability to hold down their own against visiting teams in crucial encounters at their favorite Baba Yara Stadium in Kumasi came staring at them as they watched a more resolute Swedru All Blacks and Kpando Hearts of Lions grab all the three points in the ongoing Glo Premier League to the displeasure of their swarming fans a few weeks ago.

Unlike Accra Hearts of Oak abandon the club in the midst of seeming difficulties, Kotoko continue to enjoy the unflinching support of their cohorts even in the face of telling challenges and heart breaking results. However, is this religious support to blame for the seeming apathy on the part of the management and playing staff towards must-win encounters?

The seeming lack of job security for the technical team has in no small contributed to the discrepancy in the performance of the team. Why would Opeele want to leave the much more lucrative job as head coach of Kotoko to a dumpy one like the assistant coach? You guess!

Lets see Kotoko rise up and up the standards of the Glo Premier League!