Who offsets Ikhana’s Bill?

By Ayo Ademokoya

The news of the appointment of  the  first clas

s coach expected to tutor the darling team of Oyo state back to national and continental glory in person of  Khadiri Ikhana, who unarguably is the most successful coach in the Nigerian Professional Football League is not with ado after all as the question of who shoulder the bill of the formal Enyimba International of Aba arise.

Though the coach who was introduced formally to the team yesterday by the team General manager has agreed to a pay cut of  about 600,000 naira less than his asking price,unless the State Assembly who facilitated the hiring of the coach for  3SC, the management of the Ibadan warlord may still find it difficult to meet with the monthly 1.2 milion naira basic salary of the coach and the demand of a 5 star hotel accommodation since Khadiri Ikhana was reported to have turned down the rented apartment given to him saying that he normally stay in an hotel where ever he works.

According to investigation conducted by www.harokah.blogspot.com, Coach Ikhana is undoubtedly a good choice for the club but a monthly salary of 1.2milion naira plus a 5 star hotel accommodation is not realistic for a club whose monthly allocation from the government has been reduced to the barest minimum.

These people from the House of Assembly believed that there is money in Shooting stars, one of  them in the house committee on sport who was one here, thought that our allocation is still as regular as when he was here.

When last did we receive up to a hundred million allocation at once? Its not as easy for the club as they envisage because even the monthly 10 to 12 milion naira does not come till the end of the month, so how  do we prosecute matches? At least we need to offset salaries from the money, pay player and match bonuses as well as cater for other miscellaneous spending, yet we would be paying for the accommodation, salary and so much for the upkeep of the coach and its assistance.

Our source revealed that some of the top officials of the club are still being owed November 2015 salary while players are still been owed backlog of sign on fees, salaries and wages cum match bonuses revealed our source, while staff still has outstanding to pay.

In fact some of the players went a borrowing from their colleagues from a particular football club from the southwest plying their in the Premier league side after the last preseason game last week.

Unless government increases the allocation of the club or we have real alternative source of income, the House of Assembly who hired the coach for 3SC may be the one paying or augmenting the salaries.