Black Stars coach Kwesi Appiah has reaffirmed reports making round that Mubarak Wakaso and Afriyie Acquah withdrew from Ghana’s friendly games against Japan and Iceland due to disagreements over appearance fees.
The pair pulled out of the matches after being told they would receive an appearance fee of $2000 for each game instead of the usual $5000 the players get for friendlies – an amount they felt‘inadequate.’ Each player will now earn $4000 from the two games instead of $10,000.
“Unfortunately we were all supposed to leave Ghana for this friendly game but they opted out of the team with reasons being that the allowances being paid is not what they expected.”
“The two of them being senior players in the team thought it’s important that they’ve been spoken to by Osei Parma before such arrangements. Their argument was that Parma didn’t talk back to them so they felt that they’ve been ignored.”
“Personally I think they should have told me that due to these circumstances they won’t travel with the team.”
Kwesi Appiah’s team will travel to Reykjavik to play Iceland on June 7.
