The right-back and captain of Accra Hearts of Oak, who is not in Slavko Matic’s plans, has spoken out on Afriyie Barnieh’s contractual dispute with the club.
The management of Accra Hearts of Oak is currently sweating over Daniel Afriyie Barnieh’s decision to renew his contract with the MTN FA Cup champions.
After being named to Otto Addo’s final 23-man squad for the World Cup in Qatar, Daniel Afriyie Barnieh has yet to renew his contract with the Rainbow Boys, despite the fact that numerous clubs are interested in signing him.
Fatawu Mohammed, who has verified that he, Mohammed Alhassan, and Junior Kaaba are not needed in the plans of the new gaffer, Slavko Matic, has revealed that he will not advise Daniel Afriyie Barnieh to renew his contract with Hearts of Oak.
In an interview with Sports Obama TV on YouTube, Fatawu Mohammed, who played alongside Afriyie Barnieh at the club and helped the Phobians win the Ghana Premier League after a decade, said that God would never forgive him if he ever advised his teammate to stay at the club.
“I will not recommend Afriyie staying at Hearts of Oak,” Fatawu Mohammed said to Sports Obama TV. “Afriyie is my son, but I won’t encourage him to stay, and God will punish me even more for that. God won’t even pardon me.”
Fatawu Mohammed, who has been reported to have been released by Hearts of Oak after years of captaining the Phobians, detailed in the interview why the club’s management misses out on significant transfer deals.
Fatawu revealed why they are unable to meet Daniel Afriyie Barnieh’s contractual requirements at Accra Hearts of Oak.
“The management doesn’t understand business, or they don’t do business, and they have no plans for the players, truth is bitter,” Fatawu explained.
He stated that because the players’ salaries at Accra Hearts of Oak were barely a pittance, Barnieh had no reason to continue at the club.
He emphasized, “I didn’t get even a bicycle from Hearts of Oak. The only thing I got out of Hearts of Oak SC was a call-up to the Black Stars team. I couldn’t buy anything with my salary at Hearts of Oak; it was a hand-to-mouth salary.”
