Kofi Abanga
Former Hearts of Oak midfielder, Kofi Abanga, is beside himself with worry about the club’s repetitive errors.
He believes the club that has failed to win the domestic league over a decade has the potential to turn things around should they put proper structures in place.
Club head coach, Edward Nii Odoom, has recently given assurance to fans that they will end their famine, but Abanga thinks otherwise.
The ex-Aduana Stars man reiterated that the club continuously repeated the same mistakes, hence his pessimism.
To him, the club has little chance to win the upcoming season title, taking into account its laid down program for this season.
“I love Hearts of Oak because they gave me everything I needed in my career,” he told Pure FM.
“The issue is that they keep repeating the same mistakes. I have heard they have appointed a Portuguese as a technical director but is he capable to help the club?
“I have gone through his records and I am not impressed, and I am worried because it seems to me the hierarchy of the club failed to do proper research on him.
“The players have played under Odoom, and looking at the time we are left to start our league, how do you bring in a Portuguese as a technical director because he will eventually take over as the head coach and that is not proper for the club,” he said.
Abanga added, “The management of the club, for me, is failing to do the right thing because any serious club will not do what Accra Hearts of Oak are doing now. For me, they cannot win the league title this season.
“I will be happy to see them in good form but you need to do the right thing and with less than two weeks to the start of the league, you have now appointed a technical director to take over as the head coach. Who does that?”
In Abanga’s seven season spell with Hearts, he won the 2008/2009 Ghana Premier League season, GHALCA Top 4 on two occasions, the Homowo Cup and the President’s Cup.
By Kofi Owusu Aduonum