Start Playing Now Or Forget Super Eagles – Rohr Warns Ahmed Musa
Relegation-bound West Bromwich shun Eagles’ Captain
BY VICTOR OSOWOCHI – With eyes set on the forthcoming AFCON qualifiers, Nigeria national team Coach, Gernot Rohr has given Super Eagles’ captain, Ahmed Musa, marching orders to resume playing competitively or forget his place in the team for now.
And the 28-year-old has until the Super Eagles 2022 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers in March to secure a club and re-launch his football career.
However, the order looks mission impossible for the fleet-footed striker given his now failed transfer talks with English side, West Bromwich Albion
“It’s a long time that he didn’t play, I think since October, so he needs now to come back in the rhythm of the matches”, Rohr said
In a recent media chat, Rohr had said; “We are in touch with our captain, he is in the United Kingdom now
“It’s not so easy to change during the season, but he is free to sign where he wants and there’s no obligation to respect the transfer window for him because he was free already.”
According to the German-born tactician, “I am very hopeful that he can sign in the next few days, he wanted to come back to Europe and to play in England.
“It’s not so easy during the season, but I’m hopeful that he can sign in the club. It’s very important that everybody is playing in their clubs.”
However, disappointment may have come the way of Coach Rohr with Musa’s failed deal of returning to the Premiership.
After much hype about a possible move to the bottom-placed West Brom, Manager ‘Big’ Sam Allardyce dropped the bombshell that Super Eagles captain, Ahmed Musa, will not be joining the Baggies anymore due to the club’s current poor financial state.
The Nigeria international was officially linked with the Baggies and did travel to England for a potential deal with them.
But Allardyce said the transfer arrangement is no longer be feasible as West Brom’s financial state does not allow them to gift the Eagles skipper any contract.
He told Birmingham Mail; “We’d already brought four players in, so it didn’t fall within our budget anymore.
“More players would have had to have left to have funded that one. It’s a shame that Musa didn’t get in or come in earlier, obviously because of COVID he couldn’t make it.”
“He may have been one of the four that we brought in, but because he was the fifth it couldn’t get done”, ‘Big’ Sam said.
Sadly, the winger has been clubless since leaving Saudi Arabian side, Al Nass, by mutual agreement in October 2020.
Hitherto, Musa had featured in the Premier League with Leicester City but failure to establish himself at the King Power Stadium saw him moving to Saudi Arabia.
After leaving Al Nass, he has been making frantic efforts at returning to Europe but may now have to look elsewhere to re-launch himself and regain Coach Rohr’s confidence. – Additional reports from Goal.com
