[ 2016-11-14 ]

Avram Grant earns $1.2m but shows poor results
THE coach of the senior national football team,
Avran Grant, has earned over $1million in salaries
since his appointment two years ago but only has
disappointing results to show for it.

Mr Grant is on a reported monthly wage of $50,000
(Fifty Thousand Dollars).

The amount, which is the equivalent of GHc4million
(40 billion old Cedis) is the highest paid to any
Black Stars coach in the history of Ghana, a
country under International Monetary Fund (IMF)
bailout to fix an economy in crisis.

However, the coach has guided Ghana to achieve the
worst result in recent memory of the senior
national football team.

The Israeli trainer has failed to live up to
expectation as Ghana’s chances of qualifying to
football most prestigious tournament is in doubt
after losing to Egypt in Alexandria in match day
two of the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers.

Avram who is on a monthly wage of US$50,000 since
his appointment in November 2014, has performed
poorly in the World Cup qualifiers compared to
previous coaches of the Black Stars, such as Kwesi
Appiah, Milovan Rajevac and Ratomir Djukovic who
were even paid less but managed to qualify Ghana
to the World Cup.

For the 24 months that Avram Grant has coached
Ghana, he has earned a total of $1.2 million. He
has three months remaining on his current
contract, which ends in February 2017 after the
AFCON.

At the end of his contract, Mr Grant would earn
$1.35 million.

Kwesi Appiah qualified Ghana to the 2014 FIFA
World Cup with a salary of $25,000 per month and
yet still had a team with a lot more competition
than what Grant has now.

Ghana has played five games without a win and this
has been one of the worst performances by the
Black Stars in recent times. Before yesterday’s
game against Egypt, Ghana had played Rwanda (1-1),
lost 1-0 to Russia, drew 0-0 with Uganda and drew
1-1 with South Africa.

The Stars are currently third in Group E with just
one point after two matches. Uganda are second
with four points.

Ghana’s chances of qualifying for the 2018 FIFA
World Cup, to be staged in Russia, has now been
hit by a big blow as Egypt have opened a
five-point gap leading the table with six points.

Avram Grant since his appointment has come under a
lot of criticism from the media and football fans
as well as some administrators.

Some of the criticism against him include his
failure to monitor the local league, failure to
give technical assistance to the various national
teams, does not even stay in the country, and
describes the standard of the local league as poor
and a lot more.

The coach has come to respond to his critics
saying he is always out of the country because the
standard of the league is low and is always
monitoring players abroad.

From the sponsorship deal of $3million per year by
Ghana National Petroleum Company (GNPC) for three
years, Grant takes $600,000 per year as salary
paid by the sponsors and yet still has failed to
secure a comfortable spot for the Black Stars in
the World Cup qualifiers.

Avram Grant will go in the history of Ghana
football as one of the best paid coaches of the
senior national football team and will also be the
coach not to have qualified Ghana for the World
Cup in recent times if the team fails to top the
group.

Source - The Finder

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