Keshi should be more professional in his dealings- Felix Anyansi

Babalola Tomiwa

The chairman of the Nigeria Football Federation Technical Committee, Felix Anyansi has described out-of-contract Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi as immature; adding that talking to the media about contract issues is lack of discipline.

Keshi last week told the media that the NFF has offered him a slave contract due to the contents of the aforementioned document, which is to renew the 52-year old contract with the Super Eagles.

The former Mali and Togo boss has been out of real job since he crashed out with Nigeria at the second round at the FIFA world cup held in Brazil last summer, and Keshi revealed he was far from impressed with what was on offer, adding that the NFF are liars for misinforming Nigerians on his position as Eagles gaffer.

According to Anyansi, the ‘Big Boss’ should have directed his reservations about the new offer to the NFF instead of embarrassing the country or his potential employers in the media.

"The act of taking contractual matters to the media doesn't show maturity and discipline from [Stephen] Keshi," Anyansi told BBC Sport.

"Contracts are not signed on the pages of newspapers and his objections or concerns should be addressed to the federation and not to outsiders.

"Why insult your potential employers in the media if you plan to work with them. He should stop embarrassing and insulting the country in public, it's the reason he has a lawyer who could speak to us."

"The whole thing should not have been blown out of proportion. It's the NFF employing Keshi and not the other way round, so if he's not happy he can simply 'walk away',” he continued.

"The role is not his birth right, so he should stop acting like it's him or no one else.

"He's not going about it the right way. Keshi can't employ those employing him, so if he's not happy he should come back to us and we can look into it.

"Keshi has worked in other countries and he didn't engage Togo and Mali in a media war, so if he has advisers then they should tell him the matured path to follow,” he concluded.

Stephen Keshi was overlooked by the Burkina Faso federation in its search for a national team coach as Gernot Rohr was picked.