Contract offer for Eagles’ coach •Rohr’s entitiments settled

SUPER Eagles chief coach, Salisu Yusuf, will sign his contract with the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) this week, Tribunesport has gathered.

A source in the Glass House secretariat of the NFF in Abuja informed Tribunesport on Tuesday that the Federation has concluded every arrangement to sign the contract with Yusuf before the end of the week.

According to the source, NFF President, Amaju Pinnick, held a meeting with the Eagles’ technical crew after the team arrived in Abuja from Ndola, Zambia, where it defeated the Chipolopolo 2-1 in a 2018 World Cup qualifier and assured Yusuf that he would sign a contract with the football body.

The source further informed that the former Kano Pillars coach was assured that his outstanding salary would also be paid by the Federation this week.

Yusuf was recommended as the Eagles’ chief coach by the NFF Technical Committee, which was saddled with the responsibility of selecting a replacement for Sunday Oliseh, who suddenly dumped the Eagles’ job in July.

The committee had shortlisted Yusuf alongside Frenchman Paul Le Guen and Tom Saintfiet, who applied for the Eagles’ job but was picked as the chief coach. The committee picked Le Guen for the job but he turned down the offer barely 24 hours after his name was announced.

NFF Executive Committee later approved its technical committee’s recommendation on Yusuf, who was in charge of the Super Eagles for their two international friendlies against Mali and Luxembourg in May.

In a related development, Tribunesport learnt on Tuesday that the NFF has settled Super Eagles Technical Adviser, Gernot Rohr’s entitlements so far.

The Franco-German had at a briefing last Friday in Abuja before the Eagles travelled to Zambia for their World Cup qualifier informed that he had no problem with finance, declaring that he did not like discussing financial issue.