Barely 24 hours after the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF announced Frenchman, Paul Le Guen as the country’s new technical adviser, the former Cameroon Coach, according to reports rejected the job claiming that NFF did not meet his contractual terms.
Tidesports had earlier gathered that despite Monday’s announcement of Le Guen by NFF, both parties were still in dispute over several terms of his contract.
“It was not a done deal as at the time of announcement, there were several major grey areas that had not been agreed between the Coach and NFF, and the appointment was based on the Coach agreeing the contract offered by the NFF”, one top official told Tidesports source.
Meanwhile, NFF President has expressed optimism that the Super Eagles will qualify for the 2018 Fifa World Cup.
Pinnick disclosed this after meeting the NFF technical committee on the choice of Paul Le Guen as new Eagles’ technical adviser.
“By God’s grace we are going to qualify. We have worked round the clock and have done everything possible. We have discussed with the players. There are a lot of things we have done. There is a level you can go in terms of providing everything,” said Pinnick.
“All what they need is mental character, we have to psyche them up. You have to give them the sense of patriotism.
“If you see what Ronaldo did, he was injured and he was crying when he was being taken out of the field. That is the kind of mentality we want our players to put up when they are playing for the team.
“Like I said, the 20 teams that qualified are all capable. I would rather play Algeria than to play Gabon.

“Gabon has never been to the World Cup and they would want to go to the World Cup. I can assure you.”
Nigeria must get past Algeria, Cameroon and Zambia to reach their sixth World Cup finals billed for Russia.