Super Eagles coach Stephen Keshi has said he knows his players and his players know him, and there is a good relationship between both parties.

Keshi said he talks regularly with his players and expect that any issue bothering the minds of the players are resolved one on one on telephone in cases of distance barrier.

Row

Joseph Yobo, the team's captain at the 2013 African Cup of Nations tournament hit out at Keshi for not calling him up or informing him that he wasn’t in his plans for the 1 – 1 draw against Kenya in the recent 2014 World Cup qualifying game In Calabar.

Keshi has subsequently omitted the Fenerbahce defender from Super Eagles’ busy schedule between the month of May and July. It means Yobo would miss out on the FIFA Confederations Cup in Brazil.

My players

But Keshi has now said he knows his players and his players know him, so any player who goes public for issues that would have been resolved privately, that player is not his player.

-I spoke with Keshi and he told me that he communicates with his players very often, and they talk on so many things, a close source told futaa.com

-If the players have any issues they discuss it with him, and they resolve it privately.

-But if any player goes to the public over any issue, then that player is not his player.

Keshi feels there was nothing wrong in omitting Yobo, pointing out that he has a flourishing central defensive partnership in Kenneth Omeruo and Godfrey Oboabona and saw no need to call up Yobo only to keep him on the bench.

Source: www.futaa.com/football/article/keshi-i-know-my-players