Good Day All.
The opening weekend’s stories and heroics are now firmly in the rear mirror as we look again toward what faces us this weekend. Niger Tornadoes are coming to town and like Chinatu pointed out on Wednesday, it looks like they also had some midweek engagement as well. A potential banana skin but we will deal with that with a preview tomorrow.
There seems to be a deliberate line of happenings at the club that may have swayed a certain narrative about the club. A couple of days ago, the club put out a message that it was releasing 22 players from the end of the concluded season. There’s a truism about it but it also contained names of players released at different points within the course of the season.
However, the manner in which that message was released and it’s content produced a negative reaction leading to questions from within the club hierarchy. Obviously, those players were released but adding those released mid-season and those who were on loan, was unnecessary.
A more realistic and cushionable number was 12 and not 22. So why was an inflated list pushed out? In the past, the club will rarely make it official that they were releasing players. They’ll quietly let them go. So who sanctioned this release? Are there certain members of the club who are fighting the current management? It certainly appears so.
My point is, there hasn’t been a list of new entrants/new players, why are we in haste to publish those leaving the club? It was not necessary. Considering the backlash especially on social media, it is evident that there are people who are pushing buttons to paint an already poor management to look even worse.
Again, I stand by the comments we made in the past here on this blog about how the current management hasn’t lived up to its billing. They’ve dropped the ball severally and Kanu himself has been “learning on the job”. He also hasn’t helped himself by being less than hands on in his approach. I think a proper PR set up is needed at the club
That said, this isn’t an opinion excusing the club’s hierarchy of its obligations and duties. For instance, Enyimba had 2 substitutes on the bench last weekend in Kano. That is no sabotaging. That is outright abandoning of one’s responsibilities. You have to confirm that registrations went through. Sunday could have turned into a massacre and it is a miracle we got a result from it.
So while the club needs to clean up house, they must also look to ensure the sweeper isn’t the one with dirty muddy feet.
Back tomorrow with a Match preview
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