Over six weeks after Finidi George resigned as the Head Coach of the Super Eagles, the Nigeria Football Federation, (NFF) is still engulfed in crisis and confusion over the choice of a new manager for the senior national team.

Authoritative sources revealed that the chief – tains of the NFF have been having sleeping nights over the final choice of a substantive coach for the Eagles.

The NFF, according to reports has settled for Eric Chelle but some other powerful people led by a former top shot in the federation are opposed to this.

It was learnt that the opposing group is tipping Tom Saintfiet, a former The Gambia coach to replace Finidi even though he has a win ratio of 28 per cent with his former employers.

“Chelle has a win ratio of 79 per cent with the Mali national team. He knows African football and can take the Eagles to the next level.

We can also look at other top coaches around the world but certainly not Saintfiet,” a top NFF source told our reporter. In 22 games as the Coach of Mali, Chelle won 14 drew 5 and lost 3.

The team scored 36 goals and conceded only 12. The Gambian does not know how to score goals under Saintfiet. They were in very low percentage till his exit and he could compound the problem of Eagles.

The Super Eagles’ scoring ratio in the last year is 21 per cent while Mali’s is 79 per cent. Nigeria takes on Benin between September 2 and 6 at home and will face Rwanda between September 6 and 9 in an away encounter of the AFCON qualifiers.

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