Former Asante Kotoko player Wilberforce Mfum has urged the Interim Management Committee (IMC) to sack coach Prosper Ogum. He argued that the team’s poor performance during the second half of the season exposed the coach.
“That is not right. If I held any capacity in the team, I wouldn’t have agreed to this decision of the IMC. How can you lose five matches and still be at the helm of Kotoko?” Wilberforce Mfum wondered.
Kotoko are not faring well under the former WAFA and Ebusua Dwarfs gaffer. His team has been struggling for form lately and have slumped to 10th on the league table as a result of poor results.
The club’s ICM expressed confidence in the coach’s ability to revive the team’s fortunes. But that is something the 87-year-old 1963 AFCON winner finds bizarre. Wilberforce Mfum said the team its disgracing the life patron of the club, the Otumfuo.
“Otumfuo’s name can’t be disgraced to this level. Why was he [Ogum] given so much power to purchase players singlehandedly? Kotoko deserves top-class players who can fill the stadium with supporters, not lower-division players like we currently have,” the former New York Cosmos star remarked on Akoma FM.
Despite winning the league previously with the Porcupine Warriors, Dr. Prosper Narteh Ogum has failed to bring the spark into the team after replacing Seydou Zerbo in the dugout. Dr Ogum guided Kotoko to the 2021-2022 league title, a feat that earned him the Ghana Football Awards Men’s Coach of the Year in 2022.
Kotoko has lost its last four matches on the bounce, dropping them to 10th with just six points seperating them and Bofoakwa Tano who occupies the last relegation position. There are 11 more matches to end the season.