I heard about NFF’s plans to say goodbye to Super Eagles coach Eric Chelle

“I have heard many stories, about them that they want to say goodbye and replace myself with another person. I have heard of that,” Chelle said, in response to Gusau’s statement.

“I know, quite well, that I can be fired after a game. This is life in football. But if they decide to do that, they must be prepared to pay for the rest of my contract.”

“When I came to Nigeria, I didn’t come here for money. I was winning more in my last job. I came to Nigeria because this is a very big team and I want to try something, to achieve something. I came here for the challenge. Nothing has changed about it.”

“People have already canceled us (with Nigeria failing, until now, to win a single game at home in the qualification). But that does not bother me. I am concentrating on preparing my players for the remaining four games we have. I think we are going to surprise many people,” he told me in his Oasis Marriott Hotel Camp in Dar Esamam, where we summarize our conversation on Thursday 14.

“Well, the key is that we know where he met the team. We cannot evaluate it with a single problem. As you said, he met the team in a difficult situation … but if he continues in the way he is doing, and obtains the results that he is supposed to obtain, in the future, the qualification is one thing and his performance is something else. We will see what he has brought to the team. [We will see] If there is any hope for the future and we will take it from there.

Gusau: We are not praying for that. But if we have a disastrous performance with him, before that moment, you will be journalists, who will tell us all kinds of things … (For the full interview with Gusau, click this link – x.com/osasuo/status/…)

“I have not had much contact with the president of the NFF and the general secretary, since I took charge of the team. We met from the beginning, of course, and sometimes later. But I have been alone, to a large extent, as I continued doing my job.”