Monaco sacks former Chelsea sporting director Emenalo
Just few hours after sacking former Arsenal great Thiery Henry as manager, Monaco has extended the axe to former Nigerian international Michael Enemnalo.
The Former Chelsea sporting director has been sent packing by AS Monaco, according to a report from France.
The 53-year-old ex-Nigeria international arrived from the dethroned Premier League Champions in November 2017 struggled to convince Les Monégasques vice president Vadim Vasilyev with some of his recruitment to the first team with the latest signing of Cesc Fabregas, Winner, Ballo-Toure and Naldo.
According to L’Equipe claims that Emenalo will now follow the suit of Thierry Henry to leave Monaco after the Frenchman just two league matches in 12 attempts since he took over the dethroned Ligue 1 Champions late last year with Leonardo Jardim return to Stade Louis II for the second time just three months ago he left.
Emenalo era in Chelsea saw them lifting Champions League, Premier League, Europa League, FA Cup, and Caraboa Cup.
Monaco sits in 19th in the league but they travel to Dijon on Saturday for Ligue 1 encounter nEmenalo who indirectly revealed a possible desire to coach the Super Eagles, it will be recalled offered reason why Sunday Oliseh dumped the team midway into the qualifiers ahead of the world cup in Russia.
Emenalo who was former teammate to Oliseh had said then he wasn’t shocked with the way Oliseh left his role as the Super Eagles coach, stating that the former Borussia Dortmund midfielder was head hunted as coach without giving others a chance to apply for the top post.
“I saw it coming, the way he came in, no interview, no advertisement of the coaching vacancy,” he said.
“Amaju (NFF president) just went to London and all we saw was himself taking selfies with Oliseh and we were told behold a new Super Eagles coach.
“I wasn’t surprised at all (he eventually quit).”he had told Brilla fm
Former Enugu Rangers defender Emenalo featured for Nigeria during the 1994 World Cup finals in USA.