CUTTING COSTS IN EAGLES: Many backroom staff, coaches to go
Super Eagles’ backroom staff will be pruned by half following the unsustainable cost of running the team for every game which has been put at between N600 and N700 million.
The staggering figures arose from payments on players’ flight tickets, coaches’ and backroom staff’s as well as various sums paid for daily allowances, match bonuses for won and drawn matches running close to N700 million for each match, which the federation says is unsustainable.
No details about those to be dropped except for the fact the federation is determined to drop those whose duties can be performed by fewer men.
Sportinglife scooped that Super Eagles’ manager Gernot Rohr has been briefed on the need to cut down on the number of backroom staff and ancillary workers in the squad, all of whom were paid staggering figures as their dues. In fact, those to remain will be told how they will be paid and those things which the players enjoy, which won’t be given to them, in a bid to cut the cost of running Super Eagles per game.
But these decisions have to discussed at the federation’s next board meeting for more contributions from other members before final decisions are taken on those to be dropped and those to be retained.
Indeed, whatever decisions are taken will affect all the national teams, with word rife that the NFF bankrolls 16 national teams, which are run at high costs in foreign currencies.