.Says club not interested in 'ready-made' players
By
Akeem Lawal
THE General Manager of the Nigeria Professional Football League side, Abubakar Bukola Saraki (ABS FC), Alloy
Chukwuemeka has said that the club remained committed to development of young
talents and will not go into the market for ready-made players.
In a chat with Sportsbiz247.blogspot.com in
Lagos on Tuesday, Chukwuemeka said the mandate given by the owner of the clubs, Senator
Abubakar Bukola Saraki is to develop young talents and give them hope of making
it through the game of football.
“The philosophy of
the club is to encourage young players, developmental football and that is the
mandate given us by the owners of the club, His Excellency, Senate President,
Bukola Saraki. He said we should try to develop talent to make the club an example
for others to emulate.
“If you look at our players, we don’t recruit anyhow. Any
player we are recruiting must not be above 23 years, so that is to tell you
that we concentrate more on young talents, we don’t buy already made, whom we
call pensioners. We take only young players.
“When we got relegated in 2013, we lost 27 of our players
to premier league clubs. This time around, we went back to Kwara Football
Academy and other catch point areas where we select these young boys.
“If you look at them they are young boys that are ready
to play football. They know that after the season a lot of clubs will be
looking for them. Even now a lot of clubs are looking for them. About nine
players have been penciled down to move, but what we are trying to do is to
talk to them, psyche them for them to calm down and concentrate to develop
their talents more. We don’t hold any player because football is about
movement, but be that as it may, we still advocate that continuity is good,”
Chukwuemeka told Sportsbiz247.blogspot.com.
The Saraki Boys will face El-Kanemi Warriors in Maiduguri as the first round of the 2016/2017 NPFL season comes to
an end after today’s week 19 round of matches and the club's director of football expressed
satisfaction with the team’s campaign, even as he reveals plans for the
mid-season transfer.
“Even though we have not ended the first round, we have a
match to go by tomorrow (Wednesday) against El-Kanemi Warriors in far away
Maiduguri, but so far so good, the first round was good. You could see that we
started very well, we were around second, third, fourth before we had some bad
results and we drew some matches at home that took us down to nine now. That is
not bad for a team like ABS that has just gained promotion, taking into
consideration the road to the Premier League.
“I want to assure you that we will try to ensure that we
ganner all the available results because by second round we will be having more
home maches. We played double away
matches in the first round, we will play double home matches in the second
round and that will amass more points for us to finish in the first four which
is our target this season.
“The coach has given us his papers and at the end of
tomorrow, which is the end of the first round, we will look at his papers, know
the areas he wants to fortify because somebody must go before another one comes
in."
PHOTO CREDIT: Abdul Momoh Photography
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