Super Eagles’ coach, Gernot Rohr has refuted media reports that he has reached an agreement with Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) over terms of a contract extension, as he says they are yet to finalise deliberations over a much-talked about new deal, megasportsarena.com reports.
While a section of the Nigerian sports media had even gone to town in the past month to specifically declare that Rohr had even put pen to paper on a new contract, which would be his third with the NFF since first taking up the job in August 2016, the Franco-German gaffer suggested it is just another case of ‘fake news.’
Indeed, Rohr, after several months of speculations over the tactician’s future with the Eagles, was eventually formally offered a new contract by the NFF in the middle of last month, with the basic talking points being conditions that include earning his pay in local currency, paying tax on his salary, living permanently in the country and the technical committee first to check his lists.
However, after two weeks since being presented with the proposed deal, Rohr insists all the days of deliberations between himself and the NFF, in trying to meet at an agreement on his contract renewal, nothing has yet been finalised
Although he admitted he has taken a pay cut on what remains of his current contract as part of his contributions to the battle against the novel coronavirus pandemic, the former Burkina Faso, Niger Republic and Gabon handler refused to speak on further speculation that he agreed to take a pay cut in the new package, saying he would rather not comment on that part of the ongoing talks.
Rohr, whose current deal with the NFF, which was signed just before the 2018 World Cup in Russia, is fixed to end in June, told BBC Sport Africa: “We have still not taken a decision. We will find as soon as a deal is finalised.”
