Stringent regulations of German tax authorities have conspired to abort the agreement between the Nigeria Football Federation and Coach Bruno Labbadia for the latter to mount the saddle as Head Coach of Nigeria’s Senior Men Team, Super Eagles.
“We have been on the tax issue for the past three days, and I told him clearly that there was no way the NFF will agree to offset the concomitant tax percentage on his salary that will be demanded by German tax authorities. It is not possible for us to shoulder the responsibility of shelling out another money, between 32% to 40% of his salary, after paying the agreed monthly wage.
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“The NFF and Mr. Labbadia reached an agreement in principle before we made the announcement that he would become the Head Coach of the Super Eagles. The tax details were never part of our discussions, and he had personally agreed to all terms before the tax issue came up. We were doing our best to be flexible in the discussions but he was adamant that the NFF had to pay the full tax amount as well. We simply cannot do that,” President of NFF, Ibrahim Musa Gusau, said on Friday evening.
In the event, Technical Director of Nigeria Football Federation, Coach Augustine Eguavoen will now take charge of the Super Eagles for the upcoming 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying matches against Benin Republic (Uyo, 7th September) and Rwanda (Kigali, 10th September).
It will be Eguavoen’s fourth stint in charge of the three-time African champions, after earlier experience in 2005-2007, 2010 and 2022.
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Apt picture. The smile says it all!
Eeeyah
The coach showed the nff that they should be smart as it’s now the nff might go back to the former mali coach Eric chelle
Eeeyah! Si whats your first eleven for on the 7th match? Like we can’t even remember our normality, abi?
Did I hear someone say, ’94 class?
The coach showed the nff that they should be smart as it’s now the nff might go back to the former mali coach Eric chelle
It has been in the offing. We knew it was going to come to this.
Yes na. Na we get am. Besides, you should know the sound of that old car engine. Teeeuuuhummm, lolo!
Why deceive everyone with the signing of the german. They would have employed him long ago so that preparation can start early. Why all the rigmarole abi na make the film for tough?
You are likely stupiid not to realize that Bruno or whatever he’s called was nothing but a placeholder. Really, must it be a foreign coach when we have coaches like Amuneke, Sia2, Eguaveon (Eguaveon had won Afcon medal), Sodje, Paul Aigbogun ecetera? My gut feeling tells me you guys are simply slavish in your reasoning.
All these coaches you just mentioned are serial failures, show me one success you can point to from any of them coaching wise.
Nollywood is not even close!
NFF stop lying German tax does not work like this. There’s more to this botched deal you people have started again always lying and deceiving gullible citizens.
Sorry!
Rohr tax where is it , who paid it . Trouble dey sleep nnf go wake am up
No them go say Rohr use other mediums. Our country should not EFCC because everyone has the right to be criminals as it stands. Our leaders are allowed to be criminals but always punish the citizens for same fate. All this unfolding event exposes the crooked works going on in our country.
I don’t know why I hate this man Eguaveon… his face is a constant reminder of pain in Nigeria’s football. He was not even a good player in his active days… a serial failure who has become boogeyman to 9ja football fans!Something tells me Austin Eguaveon continuing as Sporting Director of Nigeria football means fans will never know peace…
Eguaveon may not be a good administrator or coach. But that does not take anything away from his football achievements. I think we should focus more on his performance as an administrator and coach, and not as a player. These are different phases of Eguaveon’s sojourn in the world of football and they should not be mixed together. Let’s judge him purely on his performance as an administrator because that is what he is now!
Josh men! You got it right. Always a pleasure to read your messages.
It’s painful. LoLo
@Josh… Eguaveon it is, who was behind the push to restrict invitation of foreign borns… he is the reason why players like Torunarigha, Akpom and Balogun are not being invited. He championed the crusade that foreign borns were making our Super Eagles weak and should have limited spots on the squad. I repeat… aserial failure as a coach and manager and also very unreliable during his playing days… he caused the penalty that knocked Nigeria out of USA ’94.
Didn’t Eguavoen use Emmanuel-Dennis-Ronaldo-Nazario-Luis-De-Lima in Abuja?
Jimmyball I recall you saying “let us fail with our own” when he was appointed and rohr sacked
I love Eguavon before but not anymore because he is not trustworthy.
Eguavon have tested and failed himself but not Nigeria.
How long does he have to stay in this role for NFF?
The man is not transparent at all. These are the kind of people we have on the affairs of our beloved country. Running the country the way they like.
Amunike or Siasia should be giving a chance to manage the Super Eagles.
I am not moved win the game NFF is playing though. They new they won’t hire a world class coach but wasting time for nothing.
No wonder Nigeria is not moving forward. It is well. Ire o. God bless Nigeria!!!
Some of you don’t have good information that’s why it seems your brains are tucked away inside some pit toilets.
My advice, simply use your Google search to learn more about Coach Eguaveon and exploits in the World of player soccer and coaching career otherwise, your ilk remain ignoramuses.
I think we should be looking more on how Super Eagles can be triumphant in their next matches instead of this, if it is not my tribal man, nothing. That would make you a stupid fellow.
Bros…you’re too smart and level headed for this forum filled with whitewashed and colomental angry gamblers posing as football forumites
Lol. This is part of our issues. People thst prefer mediocrity. What was Eguaveon exploits as coach other than failures? He failed in Finland U17 with a team thst included Mikel and Obasi He failed in U23. He relegated Gombe Unuted. He failed un Sunshine FC. He led us to the worst AFCON performance in 30 years. He somehow found a way to lose a Qatar WC ticket to a Ghana team thst was kicked out of AFCON by Comoros. Our worst defeat by Ghana was under the hapless Eguaveon. We lost 4-1 in the UK.
My bros…must it be white to be right?…I believe that all our indigenous coaches must start using bleaching cream to appease you all.
How does this have to do with the colour of anyone skin?
You need to stop this sentimental gaslighting and the self denial.
Indigenous coaches have been given the chance and mostly failed, even recently.
It’s factual that local coaches don’t fend well with the Super Eagles at the long run. Especially this entitled class of 94. They have been given opportunities and failed countless times.
I put it to you,which of Findi, Eguavoen have done better than a Rohr or Peseiro?
Let’s be rational with our decision making rather than emotional or we continue to be in this quagmire we are in right now, in football, most of our sports, sectors and Nigerian society in general. Failure.
Get off that victim mentality.
Since I can’t find reply button to Mr Hush mek I reply myself because our last Nations cup was won by Stephen Okechukwu Keshi and he’s not white…(call me an emotionalist or sentimentalist) but white people don’t employ us as their national team coaches
@Echenona
Off course Keshi.
But it’s like comparing orange and apples.
Keshi was hired not because he was indigenous. Keshi was hired because he was the most qualified at that moment. He had qualified Togo to the world cup.
He had coached Mali.
So Keshi was very experience. He was more like a foreign coach.
The point is, we should always go for the best no matter where they are from. Merit over tribe.
So, this is your response to my catalogue of Eghuavoen’s failures. Do you think this character should be handed the SE reins for the fourth time when he failed three previous times?
Hit me up if you don’t know how to use Google.
Abracadabra.
The more you look the less . . . The skilled magicians at work, fooling people, promising white handkerchiefs, but bringing out red ones and trying to selling them as whites.
We wait again.
AMUNEKE plus Olofinjana plus Enyema
For a four year contract, give them all the necessary support and whatch them succeed.
Coach Eguaveon on his own should hurry up and show us the list of his selected side to enable SE fans channel their concentration there. It’s late here, gnite anf good luck Egu.
Nff Dj yk Mulę
At last ogunęfọn remedy
is back on board…
Hummmmmmm.
APC Government u na weldone. The original master minded deceit . Let’s forget about football for now or else many more people will die of high blood pressure, shikena.
Where is marvelous from uyo
What a comedy central show called Nigeria. Shameful and disgraceful. Saintfelt is now coach of Mali in short space of time, 2024 9ja has spent half a year looking for coach. DISGRACE
Rhor is using high level witchcraft on Nigeria.we know this.
If you like, you can make the mistake you made in the return leg of World Cup Qualifier against Ghana (after the huge and hard-fought-draw in Kumasi). If you like don’t do what your mind tells you, you can keep listening to Samsung-phone and desktop coaches. Las-las, na you sabi.
Goodluck anyway!
The original plan was always Eguadiola as the coach of Finidi fails because NFF has shared money. All this breakdown in coach talks are just intentional because they have no money after Caf paid us for 2nd Caf position. NFF don share money and Eguadiola is part of this crime, useless criminal EFCC also have their cuts so no one will probe anyone.
Wetin concern agbero with overload?
Wetin concern NFF with German tax law?
Normally, there is nothing stringent in this situation.
The situation became stringent because NFF won’t do the right thing.
Just pay the coach his complete salary. It’s the coach’s responsibility to sort out his tax bill.
Of course, this is no longer a simple situation if part of the coach’s salary has been shared.
The coach will pay taxes on the amount that he received, but the German tax authorities will require taxes on the salary portion that NFF have shared. By sharing that salary, NFF have defrauded the German government. They have shared German tax revenue among themselves.