Ekpo Wants Longer Contract For NPFL Players

Former Nigeria international, Friday Ekpo, has charged administrators in the Nigerian league to handle league players properly and give them longer contracts in a bid to control the movement and transfer of players within and outside the league.
Ekpo speaking in a chat with Tidesports source said the Francophone countries have done well in that regard with regards to proper handling of players transfers especially when players get contract offers abroad.
“We need to do certain things to move our football forward, if you go to these Francophone areas, players don’t abscond when the time comes to move abroad because they are tied on contracts that don’t allow them do that and our administrators need to learn that very well and begin to give players contract to sign. When you tie a player down for three years, all these things will be perfectly okay for Nigerian football”, he said.