Over six weeks after Finidi George resigned as the head coach of the Super Eagles, the Nigeria Football Federation is still engulfed in the choice of a new Manager for the senior national team.
Authoritative sources revealed that the chieftains of the NFF have been having sleeping nights over the final choice of a substantive coach for Eagles.
The NFF, according to reports has settled for Eric Chelle but some other powerful people led by a former topshot in the federation are opposed to this.
It was learnt that the opposing group is tipping Tom Saintfiet, a former The Gambia coach to replace Finidi even though he has a win ration of 28 per cent with his former employers.
“Chelle has a win ration of 79 per cent with the Mali national team. He has knowledge of African football and can take Eagles to the next level. We can also look at other top coaches around the world but certainly not Saintfiet,” a top NFF source told our reporter.
In 22 games as the Coach of Mali, Chelle won 14 drew 5 and lost 3. The team scored 36 goals and conceded only 12. The Gambian does not know how to score goals under Saintfiet. They were in very low percentage till his exit and he could compound the problem of Eagles.
The Super Eagles scoring ratio in the last one year is 21 per cent while Mali is 79 per cent.
Nigeria takes on Benin between September 2 and 6 at home and will face Rwanda between September 6 and 9 in an away encounter of the AFCON qualifiers.
