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Football analyst, Barrister Godwin Dudu Orumen, has expressed doubt over the contract the new Super Eagles’ coach, Shuiabu Amodu, signed yesterday in Abuja with the Nigeria Football Association (NFA).

He said Amodu, who was returning to the team he quit in 2002, ought to have learnt his lesson to sign a valid contract with his lawyers standing by his side.

He told Saturday Sunsport that if Amodu had repeated the mistake he made in the past, he might as well be threading the path of sorrow without realising what he did to himself.

"Everyone expected Amodu to sign a valid contract with the NFA," the lawyer turned journalist stated. "He has been there before and he ought to know better.

When it comes to an appointment as big as that of handling the national team, Amodu ought to have his lawyers beside him to scrutinize every line of the contract to the latter.
"When Frenchman, Philip Troussier was here, he signed a valid contract with the NFA. Berti Vogts, who left officially in March equally signed a valid contract with the football house, so if Amodu had signed whatever that was given to him, maybe because he needed the job, that’s up to him. One only hopes that whatever he signed with the NFA wouldn’t be an open invitation for thunderstorm to striker twice at the same spot," he stated.

Amodu, who left his last regular coaching job at Sharks FC of Port Harcourt in 2006, won bronze medal with the Super Eagles at the Mali 2002 Nations Cup. When he left the national side the same year, he and the NFA got onto the warpath over unpaid salaries.

He won the inaugural Africa Beach Football competition with the Beach Eagles in 2006 in Durban, South Africa, but could not lead the team to the World Beach Football competition in Rio de Jenero, Brazil, again, due to financial irregularities between him and the football house.

Based on earlier contractual nightmares suffered by former Eagles’ coaches such as Christian Chukwu and Amodu in the hands of the NFA, Orumen believes that it would be foolhardy for a coach in the mould of Amodu to sign any non-valid contract this time around.

"When it comes to recruiting coaches for the national team, the way and manner the NFA go about it leaves much to be desired," Orumen said. "That’s why any coach going into any form of contractual agreement with the FA must sign something valid."

He berated the Nigerian press and football stakeholders for allegedly pampering Nigerian sports administrators, and urged coaches to ensure they insist on signing valid contracts to secure their future.
Amodu, who was unveiled yesterday by the NFA, is expected to earn N2.5million per month, his assistant, Daniel Amokachi would be getting N1.5million, while Fatai Amoo and goalkeeper trainer, Alloy Agu, would be on N1million each per month.