Rohr’s salary: NFF in trouble as sponsors pull out

*Owes Eagles coach three months wages

*Don’t expect bailout, says Sports Ministry

Nigeria Football Federation slipped into further financial mess when the sponsors of the salary of the Super Eagles coach Gernot Rohr pulled out of the deal.

Rohr signed a two-year contract with the NFF and he is expected to pocket $47,000 every month but a source told our correspondent that the German coach had only received a month salary since he took over in August.

The NFF President Amaju Pinnick had said that an oil company offered to bankroll the coach’s salary and the two parties had signed an agreement over the deal.

Our correspondent learnt that even though the federation made the announcement, it was yet to finalise negotiations with the company before it engaged Rohr and made the arrangement public.

Pinnick had said Financial Derivatives Limited brokered the deal and the arrangement involved the oil company paying into the account of the consultancy firm which will later remit the money into Rohr’s account. But a source in the federation said the oil company was no longer interested in the deal, as the parties were yet to agree on grey areas.

“The oil company was also put off by the ‘bad media’ the federation has attracted and believes this could affect its corporate identity,” the source who is a staff of the federation told Saturday Telegraph.

“The NFF is now the one trying to pay the coach and has been looking for money everywhere to fulfil its financial obligations to Rohr.

They gave the coach some money about a week ago, it was a part payment, it was from the money they got from one of the sponsors and I also heard a few days ago that the coach will be paid from some money they are expecting from FIFA and CAF.”

Our correspondent called the owner of Financial Derivatives who is also a renowned economist Bismark Rewane for further clarifications but he did not pick the calls before going to press. Meanwhile, Saturday Telegraph learnt that the sports ministry had already told the NFF to forget about bail out over Rohr’s salary.

A source in the ministry told our correspondent that the minister of sports Solomon Dalung was not interested on any issues regarding the payment of Eagles coaches’ salary. “It was part of submission they made recently but the minister told them pointedly he was not interested.

He asked them before they engaged a foreign coach if they had the financial capacity to pay but they insited on engaging an expatriate. Dalung has told them the Federal Government will not give them a dime for Rohr,” the source added.

https://newtelegraphonline.com/rohrs-salary-nff-trouble-sponsors-pull/

Goats!

So we cannot pay our Super Eagles Coach his monthly salary in a country where our National Assembly Members take home monthly is Thrice Rohr's Salary

Things just keeps getting worse in this country everyday.

no govt intervention in football, so says the fifa rule. make no future ambition go get their money from other source to offset their debt abeg.
how about monies from state fa, caf, fifa and other sponsors? i know nff no dey remit to fg, so where all the fund dey go? so many crooks in the nation, the ediot picnic abi na pricknic be im name, don go share the women allowee too as the crazy dude no expect dem to reach final, not to talk of winning the trophy, awon weyrey.

Don't know what the fvck is wrong with those clowns in the glass house

This country is a very big joke

Everything is most likely looking to crumble under Buhari and APC, what are we all gonna do? re we gonna wait till 2019? chai!!!

APC kuku pami

i prefer u pay my coach dan those galz

Na wa o!
The crisis in NFF can not attract sponsors, at all.

Pinnick, best find a way to pay the Coach , so as not to kiss our qualification good bye.

This is what you get when the president and his gang of thieves are sport cow loving people.


I know they are also expecting that japanese billionaire who paid the eagles in olympic or another one to come and pay the coach & the falcons.

Useless government.

Oh I even forgot about the huge amount Rohr is earning. So they can get sponsor or whatever to pay $47k monthly but cannot pay those super falcon players? Foolish country

Ok

they will soon sit up

dwarf of Africa!!!

When you think you have seen the worst that can happen in NFF and the worstEST happens

Previous coaches will always be vindicated. The system is total nonsense.

Why wont they pull out

Naija I hail thee....

phlio666:
i prefer u pay my coach dan those galz

No reason like that abeg!

This country is sinking fast. Its a shame we are being led by men who cant even manage their bedrooms. These Elders are simply DISGUSTING

intelligence is lost on dix pricknick guy!

Ntooooooor

ok........

eph12:
Oh I even forgot about the huge amount Rohr is earning. So they can get sponsor or whatever to pay $47k monthly but cannot pay those super falcon players? Foolish country

why won't they get money to pay Rohr? Was he not hired before the girls went to AWCON?

If someone must suffer for the SF issue, it's not Rohr because he earned his wages as well. Please call out some other person rather than pitch the teams against each other.

Is he less deserving of his wages than your girls?

Op, you are wrong, the whole country is in trouble not only the sport sector. Go to your nearest state hospital, school, road to confirm


2019 is getting far away each day, we need to draw 2019 closer to change this change

idinc:
dwarf of Africa!!!

we would end up being the Mouse of Africa if this problem continue.


Owell"IN JERRY LAWRING VOICE" when will "PURGENALIZALION OF THIS COUNTRY TAKE PLACE" cos 2019 is Too Too far away.

safarigirl:
why won't they get money to pay Rohr? Was he not hired before the girls went to AWCON?

If someone must suffer for the SF issue, it's not Rohr because he earned his wages as well. Please call out some other person rather than pitch the teams against each other.

Is he less deserving of his wages than your girls?

My girls?

How can Rohr suffer for the SF issue?

If the nff and ministry of sport could find a way to get that kind of money for the male team what's stopping them from doing same for the female?

You should even be the one saying this and me doing what you are doing sef After when it suits you una go claim equal rights