Oliseh blasts NPFL clubs over non-release of players

Super Eagles coach, Sunday Oliseh, has lashed out at Nigeria league clubs for keeping away their players from the team training camp in Abuja.

Oliseh invited 23 players from the domestic league, but only 14 outfield players attended the first training session held on Tuesday morning.



“Those who are commenting or laying emphasis on the fact that we rely mainly on foreign players to play should start asking questions because we are back home to train and we don’t have people to train,” africanFootball.com quoted the Eagles’ coach as saying after Tuesday’s training session.

“The clubs are trying to hold on to their players. So, how do we now want them to learn and catch up with the ones that are in front of them?

“You can see that it affected our training, we have to change our training programme. We had invited 23 and we ended up with 14 field players. So, I will leave you to judge from this.”

Oliseh has said he will draft five players from this training camp to join the 18 foreign players he called up for next month’s African Nations Cup qualifier in Tanzania.