shadrach77:

Amodu wants N300m as compensation for redeployment

Amodu was reassigned to the Super Eagles Team B, comprising home-based players, after winning a bronze medal at the Angola 2010 Africa Nations Cup. In a report posted on MTNFootball.com, Amodu, who was replaced by Swede Lars Lagerback, is asking for N135 million for the remaining part of his contract, which was to have ended in July.

He is also asking for another N165 million as bonus for qualifying Nigeria to the 2010 World Cup. He has already taken his case to the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS). Ironically, Amodu also qualified the Super Eagles to the 2002 World Cup but was axed after a squabble with the country's top officials, thereby allowing Adeboye Onigbinde to lead Nigeria to the World Cup.


http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/sports/article01//indexn2_html?pdate=240310&ptitle=Amodu%20wants%20N300m%20as%20compensation%20for%20redeployment

Amhatu:

A big Thank You to Amadou for Taking Nigeria to the World Cup and being strong during the negative atmosphere NFF created. Only Amadou will get the credit and not any one else including NFF.

Amadou deserves all the money he askes for and more.

Goodday.

Ranks007:

Amodu is not a good coach, those players used individual skills and experience to get us to the world cup. I agree with him to go loggerheads with the his former employer. But the bottom line is who is more important  Amodu or Nigeria. If you know the nitty-gritty of the game soccer, you definitely agree with me Amodu is not good.

He is also asking for another N165 million as bonus for qualifying Nigeria to the 2010 World Cup. He has already taken his case to the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS). Ironically, Amodu also qualified the Super Eagles to the 2002 World Cup but was axed after a squabble with the country's top officials, thereby allowing Adeboye Onigbinde to lead Nigeria to the World Cup.

adisa363:

it is complete rubbish and garbage that NFA could sack amodu after he took us to world cup the second time. lagerback or lagerfront will lose by the special grace of GOD in the world cup. amodu will win.
we just have to start believing in ourselve, if what they want is a foreign coach, then they need foreign fans and followers,

Blazing99:

I wonder what you guys are siding Amodu for.

This guy is incompetent, period. I cannot remember the qualifying matches that took us to the 2002 world cup but I reminisce that he performed so cowardly in the 2002 nations cup that the whole Nigeria wanted his head for ruining our wining chances.

Then came qualifying for the 2010 world cup for this guy to shame his critics and he did his best, how? By placing us in a critical position, where WE NEEDED LUCK TO QUALIFY, and we were lucky so we qualified.

We then gave him another opportunity to show his coaching skills in the 2010 nation's cup. All we could see was Amodu sitting down moping while his team went flopping so bad that a team populated with under-21 players stroked us out.

Now tell me, should this coach now be given a world cup opportunity to prove himself again? I say hell no, else we want to go to the world cup without winning a match.

Amodu has no case and I'm on NFF's side to render his claims meaningless. We need coaches with competency not coaches to pity.

mama-gee:

What a thief!

igeluma:

Please NFF pay Amodu all his salaries and bonuses,labourer deserves his wages says the word of God.
will don't want any distraction on this world cup.

This case is not going to be tried in some slimy court in Igbosere but in the CAS. I believe Amodu has a case here and he's a smart man.
He signed on as the Super Eagles Technical Adviser, qualified us for the World Cup (luck, Mozambique or otherwise) and gave us a Bronze Medal at the Nations Cup (which was thoroughly undeserving by the way but he did it) and now, they want to relegate him to Team B (what is Team B anyway? Does it exist?) which his contract does not cover. If he wanted to sign on as a coach for Team B, he could have done so from the start and to make him coach this second, non-existent team, I believe he needs a new contract which he must agree to sign on to.
Until then, give him his N300m, maybe it'll teach the NFF a few good lessons.

omar22:


SPOT ON,

He wasn’t sacked due to gross misconduct! He was sacked due to poor performance, it wasn’t stipulated that he would get a certain amount if his contract was terminated within its duration this means the NFF has to cough up the rest of his contract and any bonus or fee that was promise to him. Amodu has a very strong case and if Amodu could prove that demoting him has affected him psychologically and future employment, CAS could ask the NFF to pay more and you don’t want to mess with CAS.

eros:

Amodu just wouldn't quit, would he? Now that he has finally realised its all over for him, he wants to force a retirement money out of the NFF. Nice one sir, but you ain't getting none. manliness head,  

Errr, Bro, he wasn't sacked, he was redeployed, U might want edit that your post

tayo_ast:

^^exactly!! He shd av sued them long ago. He stands a pretty good chance of winning/milking NFF

He wants to milk tight-fisted thieves dry? Hmmm, lets see him do that,

omar22:

Through the CAS!!!!!

*They could order the NFF 30 days to pay him or the super eagles face the consequence

*Deduct his money from money allocated to each country after each game (according to result or outcome) at the world cup

Berti Vogts wants Fifa action over Nigeria unpaid wages

Coach Berti Vogts has returned to Fifa to ask the governing body to act on Nigeria Football Federation (NFF)'s refusal to pay monies owed him.

Despite the claim by the former Eagles coach, NFF boss Sani Lulu insists the issue was resolved two days ago.

Fifa ordered the NFF to pay the German an undisclosed amount four months ago as his unpaid wages during his stint as Nigeria coach.

With the 30-day deadline elapsing by over eight weeks the NFF has still not paid the amount due Vogts, his lawyer Stefan von Moers claimed.

The dispute now looks set to rumble on with Vogts taking the Nigerians to Fifa's disciplinary committee to take action.

"We have no option but to return to Fifa to ask the disciplinary committee to act on the Nigerian FA's refusal to pay up," Moers told BBC Sport.

"Fifa ruled in our favour way back in December and its now eight weeks since that ruling and we have heard nothing from the Nigerians."

Even though Moers claims that the money has not been paid, Lulu is confident the NFF will not be trouble with Fifa's disciplinary committee.

He says the stand-off arose because they got the wrong account details of the German which led to the delay in payment.

"I don't think we are in trouble with Fifa. The issue was solved two days ago so when the coach checks his account he will see the money," Lulu told BBC Sport.

"The initial account number we had for Vogts was wrong and it took some time for the bankers to get back to us as it a foreign transaction.

"We got the correct bank account two days ago and we have sent the money to his account so there should be no problems."

Fifa confirmed that they ruled in favour of Vogts after he reported the NFF for ending his con tract early without paying him off.

The German was fired after the Super Eagles dismal showing at the 2008 Africa Cup of Nations with three months left on his contract.

"We can confirm that based on a claim from the German coach Berti Vogts against the Nigeria Football Federation, the Single Judge of the FIFA Players' Status Committee passed a decision in the matter on 10 December 2009," a Fifa spokesman told BBC Sport.

"The findings of the decision were formally notified to the parties on 16 December 2009.

"An amount corresponding to certain unpaid wages was awarded to the coach."

Vogts, who is the current coach of Azerbaijan, led his native Germany to the European title in 1996.