Yakubu 'reportedly' wants Siasia Sacked!

Blackburn Rovers of England star, Yakubu Aiyegbeni, has 'reportedly' told Samson Siasia to leave his job as Super Eagles’ Chief Coach now as he has failed Nigeria.

Yakubu said that a coach is as good as the success of his team, hence the need for Siasia to take the path of honour by bowing out after his Eagles failed to qualify for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations which will take place in Equatorial Guinea and Gabon. Yakubu, who was speaking on Brila FM early today from his base in London, said that Siasia’s time as the coach of the Eagles has not added value to the national team, unlike when Shuaibu Amodu and Christian Chukwu were handling the team.

According to the former Portsmouth player, Amodu qualified the Eagles for both the FIFA World Cup and the Nations Cup, while Chukwu in his time qualified the Eagles for the Nations Cup as well. “Results of a team determine the life of a coach. Siasia has failed the country and he must go now. We all saw what Amodu and Chukwu did when they handled the Eagles. It is on record that these coaches qualified Nigeria for the World Cup. 

But Siasia has failed to live up to expectations and I don’t think he has any reason to stay on as the coach of the Eagles because the team did not do well under him,” he said. Yakubu noted that the players will experience the pain of missing the Nations Cup when the competition gets underway in January next year.