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The eventual sacking of Kwesi Appiah: the inside story

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  • GHFUO: nyantakyi must go ASAP! 9 years ago

    WHY MILO? WHY GO BACK TO TRASH LIKE MILO? HUH? ABROMOVICH WENT BACK FOR MOURINHO ONLY BECOS MOURINHO WAS STILL A SUCCESS AFTER HE LEFT CHELSEA. WAT DID MILO ACHIEVE AFTER HE LEFT GH? NYANTAKYI, I HOPE UR MODA KNOWS HOW STUPID ...
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  • moyo 9 years ago

    Appiah should have been aware of of what is happening. His situation is not different from what happened to Capello in the UK. There is no way you can ever criticize your employer and that was the reason Capello was fired and ...
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  • Kwaku Ntawatawa 9 years ago

    No,he resigned.

  • Togo 's game was to lose? 9 years ago

    GFA thought Appiah and the stars will lose the Togo game but to their shame some players really sacrificed for the coach and others tried to betray him.
    Million Dollar question is which players fought for the coach and which ...
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  • k.k 9 years ago

    WO YE COACH BANSA. OFOOOOOOOOOO COACH

  • PAA DOUGIE 9 years ago

    Comedy of errors.These people do not have the development of soccer at heart.All their interest is focused on who will give them their share of the underhand dealings.FIRE BURN THEM ALL.BUNCH OF LIARS.

  • MILO MUST GO! 9 years ago

    HOW MANY COACHES UNDER NYANTAKYI IN 9 YEARS?

    1. DOYA.
    2. LEROY.
    3. MILO1.
    4. PLAVI.
    5. APPIAH.
    6. MILO2.

    THE PROBLEM IS NYANTAKYI.
    HE MUST RESIGN IN THE INTEREST OF SELF-RESPECT.

  • GFA LIARS! 9 years ago

    Indeed before the World Cup, we were told that Appiah's contract had been renewed.

    Then, after the World Cup, we were told that the GFA was handing Appiah a renewal contract.

    These dogs of greed are always trying to swi ...
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  • Sammy the Sheriff 9 years ago

    Why are you asking Mahama? You don't seem to understand the GFA independence from government interference. The same way Mahama was elected is the same way Nyantakyi came by his job, through election and Mahama has no power to ...
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  • Concerned 9 years ago

    Fifa cannot give akwesi nyatakye immunity from Ghanaians laws. He is a thief but mahama loves thieves

  • ROGUE LAWYER 9 years ago

    masa you better get a better understanding of Ghana constitution and the powers of the president

    loking at the structures of our Democracy , and the powers the constitution had given to the president ,he is more than power ...
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  • bet 9 years ago

    NYANTEKYE AND THE GROUP SHOULD ALSO FF A APPIAH, THERE IS A SAYING THAT IF YOU SHOULD PREVENT YOUR NEIGHBOR TO CLOCK 9 YOU WILL NOT PASS 10. THE WHOLE TEAM SHOULD GO

  • SUNKWA 9 years ago

    HERE IS THE GAME: SINCE ALL DOORS ARE CLOSING ON THE WINDFALL RACKETS, WHY NOT SACK APPIAH, HAVE HIM SUE FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT, COLLECT $750,000+ AND GIVE US A SHARE?

    THIS IS JUST ANOTHER FACE OF THE MANY WAYS MONEY IS M ...
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  • kwasi kyei-baffour rev. 9 years ago

    If GFA see KWASI APPIAH as incompitent and
    have gone ahead to sack hin, then I see them(GFA) members(A-Z) not compitent enough to run our football. They should pack off. It was this so called incompitent Coach gave you peop ...
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  • Omono 9 years ago

    It's extremely bizarre the circumstances surrounding Kwasi Appiah's sacking. You know what, when incompetent & mediocre govt is in place, one shd not expect anything better than such NASTY stuffs. I see another judgement debt ...
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  • KICKBACK CONTRACTOR NYANTAKYI 9 years ago

    DESAILLY MUST STEP UP AND AGGRESSIVELY SEEK THE POSITION.

    99% OF GHANAIANS WANT YOU TO BE COACH, ODENKEY ABBEY.

    COME ON, ODENKEY, STEP FORWARD, MAKE SOME NOISE FOR THE JOB!

  • Joe Canada 9 years ago

    Desaily would be out of his mind to take this coaching position from Ghana. I will rather advice him to seek a position in Somalia or Afghanistan. Inferiority beings, go for Milo or whatever his name is and pay him $50000. a ...
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  • KICKBACK CONTRACTOR NYANTAKYI 9 years ago

    Joe, you did not say why Desailly would be out of his mind. Tell me.

  • Joe Canada 9 years ago

    Because Ghanaians are the most ungrateful people I've ever come across. And with their pull him down attitude, it not worth his time. they have never appreciated their own. if you can give me names of 10 heroes past or presen ...
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  • veep 9 years ago

    and have you also forgotten the role you played? you were amongst those calling for his head so why does it come as a shock to you? you've helped in pushing the old so what do you care where she falls? you were amongst the na ...
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  • Joe Canada 9 years ago

    I hope the writer is going to church this morning to give thanks to God for what has happened to his fellow Ghanaian. The reason why Ghana is not progression is we don't want others to succeed. we always like to see and laugh ...
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  • Joe 9 years ago

    From the comments of the readers, I am seeing the writer had been consistently calling for the head of Kwesi Appiah till date, but trying to stay neutral after he got his wish. I am responding to this not because of Appiah bu ...
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  • ANABA 9 years ago

    WHEN WILL BLACK MAN GIVE HIS BROTHER A CHANCE?WHY ARE WE SO QUICK TO DESTROY?WHEN WILL THIS NEO-COLONIAL SLAVE MENTALITY END?I CRY FOR THE BELOVED COUNTRY

  • koo sefa 9 years ago

    if milo knows how to coach a team, he shld go n coach d serbian national team. Black star is for ghanaians n d black man is capable of managin his own afairs.

  • ANABA 9 years ago

    GFA STINKS!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Tee 9 years ago

    I think all blazing canons should now turn to Nyantakyi and his gangs at the GFA.

  • Kwaku Ntawatawa 9 years ago

    What are his credentials?Has not even coached a dog team of top calibre.if he's good,should be in Europe,starting somewhere.Look at Zidane.

  • Sam 9 years ago

    No milo

  • prediction 9 years ago

    I can tell you for a fact that no white coach had come to Africa to teach our foreign based players new tech in football . WHAT DID MILO ACHIEVE IN SAUDI when handling 3rd class footballers?

  • Nana Adwoa New York City 9 years ago

    Christopher Opoku you championed this nasty game cause.some of us are not peeved but we cry for Ghana if there is anything what is the succession plan for enhancing the capabilities of Ghanaian coaches?We always think the whi ...
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  • Annorwuo 9 years ago

    Substantive Minister that this country has seen in recent years! And I can now understand why he did not last in his post as the Presidential Spokesperson,when the late Prof. Mills assumed power in the early days of the NDC a ...
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  • BARIMA TOKIAFRE 9 years ago

    Akwasi Appiah dug his own grave the moment he suspended two BLACK STAR players prior to GHANA -PORTUGAL encounter at the World Cup. The moral of the team was compromised by his action. The suspension was not necessary

  • J.O 9 years ago

    Hepocrite Christopher Opoku
    You are one of those guys who did not
    allow the coach to be respected by the players and supporters. You kept writng negative articles about him and even putting pressure on GFA to sack him.

  • OBBLIGATO 9 years ago

    You are a stinking hypocrite.

  • Alex Boatang 9 years ago

    If we can pay a white coach 50,000 dollars a month, very soon doctors,teachers,nurses etc. are goinh to use this as an excuse to demand for more pay raise.TUC is watching

  • Papa Arko 9 years ago

    This idiot thief call himself Nyantakyi must be sacked or be killed

  • 123 9 years ago

    Thank you very much for the article. It explains a lot. I have never been a fan of Akwasi Appiah, but i think this is wrong. Milo spat in our faces and left, if my memory serves me right. Whya do you give him a job simply bec ...
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  • Sammy the Sheriff 9 years ago

    Desailly my ass. What has he done as a Coach? He has not even coached Colts football and Kenya and Thailand did not even value him too much to hire him.

    Silas Tetteh or David Duncan can be better fit for Blackstars than De ...
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  • KojoLee@Dilemma-Situation 9 years ago

    Silas Tetteh and Oto Addo could manage Black Star easily but I don't know why Nyantakyi is making things more complex for the whole nation.

    Nyatakyi and Milo2 are bond to fail soon if that deal comes on.

  • Isaac Osei 9 years ago

    If your presentation is the true picture of events that ensued before Appiah's sacking then Nyantakyi and a few of his cronies on the GFA are the problem. They must GO!, They take major decisions like firing the coach at the ...
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  • Yunusco 9 years ago

    Why Milo? this man left us on the middle of the road when we needed him most why do you want to bring him back

  • George Owusu-Asare 9 years ago

    To be frank, Akwasi Appiah has been given araw deal.

  • Paa Ekow 9 years ago

    The way he was fired was not particularly nice but the fact is that Kwesi Appiah should have been sacked after the World Cup. His winning percentage, even after the Togo win was less than 40% and that is not good enough for G ...
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  • Abugraogo 9 years ago

    I believe that in association football,coaches are hired to be fired and this is normal in all professional settings.However,the contract terms must be respected and the Coach must be paid all his entitlements without delay.

  • ROGUE LAWYER 9 years ago

    If other FA members had no idear and it was a sole decision of Kwasi Nyantakyi why can they also made a press Statement and call Kwasi Nyantakyi to order?
    and further pass votes of no confidence in him?

    After reading th ...
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  • kwame 9 years ago

    This is a corrupt group of people has to dissolved and prosecuted. The whole world cup showed that these people are milking gh. Our soccer is not improving yet these corrupt guys re enriching themselves.

  • abena asamoah 9 years ago

    kwesi appiah deserve more than sacking my reasons are that he performed below expactations,his relationship with the senoir players was very poor becos some of them were out spoken and he decided to sideline them forgetting t ...
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  • Rastafara"I" 9 years ago

    He has leadership qualities and understands Soccer...that is all you need to be a successful coach!!

  • b4world 9 years ago

    the problem is,these dumb african players who plays football abroad r 2 used 2 white coaches giving them orders n instructions,so they feel some type of way taking orders from a black coach,especially when they earn more than ...
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  • Jato .P 9 years ago

    Mr. Kwesi Appiah should fight for the last penny from GFA which is equally incompetent

  • DEFENDER 9 years ago

    APPIAH SHOULD GO QUIETLY,BECAUSE HE DIDNT DESERVE TO GET THAT JOB IN THE FIRST PLACE HE WASNT QUALIFIED.

  • GHANANI 9 years ago

    If a foreigner is appointed to manage the national team ghanaians should boycott all games played by the national team.

  • PANCHO 9 years ago

    Sue them for one million dollars all I care for. There's your mafia in GFA manifesting. There's nothing good in Ghana. Local Coaches are never trusted to do their job. Ghana should not have a national team just like we don't ...
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  • Prince 9 years ago

    What do you sack him for when he has fulfilled all the goals set for him, taking Ghana to the world cup and beating Togo? I think you should retain him and give him training courses outside to improve both his coaching and m ...
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  • J.O 9 years ago

    What has Ayariga achieved for the Nation. At least appiah took us to the world cup. Tribalist

  • kosoko 9 years ago

    Abuse of Power I guess! Mahama Ayariga is only 40 years old. He graduate from the chew and pour system at Legon and had a scholarship to take two years law degree at Harvard. There, he never opened his mind to understand what ...
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  • Daniel 9 years ago

    GFA President Kwesi Nyantakyi, in my view, you are a back stabber. You are a bustard. Why should do this to your own country man without discussing if any issues, you may think will be reasonable and that me lead to this. Aft ...
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  • Daniel 9 years ago

    Now we know the truth behind the sacking of Akweisi Appiah. Akweisi Appiah does not deserve this kind of reckless, lack of respect treatment from the GFA, in particular GFA President Nyantekyi. No, he does not deserve it. Nya ...
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  • New Sheriff in Town 9 years ago

    Akwasi Appiah must go for ALL - $876,000 ($36,500-a-month over 2 years).
    And Ayariga must be charged with "causing financial loss" to the State. As for Kwasi Nyantekyi he should remember "abaa a y3de bo Appiah no y3 de b3 bo ...
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  • Kwesi David 9 years ago

    Kwesi, Don't worry about the severance. As it is said "soja come soja go". You are not the first for such a thing to happen and you will not be the last. As you already had contract, make sure every pesewa or cent is paid to ...
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  • sheikh 9 years ago

    Appiah is a good coach

  • NANA ANSAH 9 years ago

    COACH APPIAH PLS GO FOR ALL D MONEY DUE U.

  • Kozair - USA 9 years ago

    If the GFA Chairman gives player confidence in coach as the reason for firing Kwasi Appiah then the chairman and the entire management committee should be fired too since they didn't give them their appearance fees on time wh ...
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  • Exposure 9 years ago

    I understand Mr Nyantakyi is a lawyer and therefore expect him to have read the existing Contract with an eagle's eye. It must be drum into his ears that we are not interested in any judgment debt nor any confusion in the spo ...
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  • Kanokware 9 years ago

    The entire leaders of GFA must also go the way Appiah is going. There is no truth in them and their contiue stay in Office will not help Ghana footbal, with their greediness and selfishness Ghana cannot win any truphy so they ...
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  • KWAKU 9 years ago

    IF GHANA WAS A HERD OF SHEEP BEQUEATHED TO U , WOULD YOU JUST BE EMPLOYING MORE HANDS JUST LIKE THAT WITHOUT TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION THE FINANCIAL COST?
    SOMETIMES WHEN I LOOK AT POLITICIANS IN THIS COUNTRY, I TEND TO UND ...
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  • Annorwuo 9 years ago

    Minister say on the JoyFM`s NewsFile program,that Seth Tekper,the Finance Minister was 'creating' problems for the Mahama govt for calling things the way he saw them;can you believe this guy?
    with him at the helm at the Info ...
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  • Duko 9 years ago

    Take all your money and never ever leave even one penny. Where are those who went to Brazil to enjoy themselves. Who caused the prayer to be mad. Why do you fire an innocent person? If you don't grab all your money I will com ...
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  • Rogue Lawyer 9 years ago

    saaani dont try to use your Hand to write any fucking letter to Kwasi Akwsi Appia , if you do , you will go to antoa to cure the curse- because you know in your heart that you have treated kwas Appia bad so bad things would ...
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  • London Boys 9 years ago

    We will not watch Ghana again if you don't bring back Kwesi Appiah

  • CHAIRMAN 9 years ago

    Appiah is miles ahead of Milo. The only Black Star coach to draw with Germany. Nyantakyi just wanted to replace Appiah with his own boy, Maxwell Konadu

  • Ghana UK Supporters Group 9 years ago

    So if Maxwell is such a good assistant to take Ghana to a qualifier then why do we need a technical advisor. Appiah and Maxwell are then very capable of doing their jobs good as they are doing, so why sack Appiah we will neve ...
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  • KB Saka 9 years ago

    Was the author a witness to all the "facts" he declared in his article? It is easy to write "according to my sources..." Which sources? Why don't you name them? Huh?!

  • kwesi appiah 9 years ago

    I think Dr.JK Appiah was sacked,because of his inability to psychologically bring player revolt under his belt,,,But why it is only the African teams who always make the headlines of such h matters like money affairs at such ...
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