Former Super Eagles coach, Sunday Oliseh has said that he would not coach the team again even if offered the job.
The former Borussia Dortmund midfielder who spent eight months as Super Eagles coach is quoted to have said “I just couldn’t die on the job.”
Oliseh quit the job over lack of support, unpaid wages and contract violations.
“No, I don’t have the intention of ever coaching the (Super) Eagles again,” he said.
“I loved working with the boys, I love coaching my country, but the atmosphere around it was no longer healthy.
“I didn’t want the job anymore. Health-wise I was not feeling too good; secondly, we were owed salaries. I was spending money on my health and on my team. I just couldn’t die on the job.
“Truth is, we have a foreign coach now and from what I heard and know, he is being paid four times the wages Stephen Keshi and I were paid and these are two players (himself and Keshi) who won trophies for Nigeria.
“I’ve never heard Gernot Rohr complain about wages. Keshi, while he was coaching, was always complaining, when I was coaching for four months, I was unpaid, for six months my assistants were unpaid, so I had to leave the job; we were also being frustrated.”
Speaking on what he had prepared for the team before he resigned, Oliseh aid:
“I had good plans for the team. You will notice that at a time I brought in (Wilfred) Ndidi, Alex Iwobi, Kelechi Iheanacho, young players who are dominating now,” he said.
“I brought in a world-class goalkeeper (Carl Ikeme) because I felt the old breed were ready to leave
“The same philosophy I used while with the Eagles was the same philosophy France used at the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
“Sometimes you ask yourself questions about Nigeria. You won laurels for the country as a player, you’re doing well as a coach, you were about qualifying for the World Cup and you’re unpaid for four months.”