By Adewale Ajayi

Win or lose, Super Eagles chief coach Germot Rohr will be relieved of his appointment as head coach of the Nigerian national football team. This much the Nigeria Sports Mouthpiece (NSM) can exclusively report.

A decision to sack the Franco/German was reached immediately after the Super Eagles lost to Algeria in that epic semi-final match on Sunday. The NFF is disappointed with that substitution that killed the rhythm of the team and rendered the Eagles ineffective going forward.

The introduction of Henry Onyekuru for Samuel Chukwueze gave the Algerians the confidence to press forward after they noticed that Nigeria’s biggest threat in attack has been taken off. Onyekuru did his little but his introduction came at a time when Chigozie Awaziem was not ready to take any more risk going forward because he was scared of a second yellow card on the night.

Saudi based Ahmed Musa who coincidentally was team captain on the day was completely out of gas after 45minutes but Rohr allowed him to play on, only to take Chukwueze out for Onyekuru who was making his AFCON debut.

Former Senegalese internationals Khalilu Fadiga and El Hadji Diouff were both shocked at Rohr’s decision to remove Chukwueze when he did and they went straight to register their disappointment with some officials of the NFF minutes before Mahrez registered the winning goal.

Germot Rohr had offered himself up for sacrifice when he gave a post match interview after the loss to Madagascar, saying he was not ashamed to lose to Madagascar, a statement that got NFF president Amaju Pinnick totally infuriated, knowing he wanted to win that match at all cost to confirm his bragging right over CAF president, Ahmad Ahmad who is from Madagascar.

There was also a Facebook post that got to the attention of the NFF on the eve of the match with Algeria where a certain lady believed to have very close ties with Rohr, posted pictures of their emerging romance and went on to appeal to the NFF to pay her hubby his outstanding four months’ salary, when it is on record that the NFF has cleared all his outstanding salary till June, 2019.

It took the intervention of some chieftains of the football house before this lady agreed to take down the post from her wall claiming that she got the information directly from source and owe no one any explanation or excuse.

Yes Rohr was given a semi-final target by the NFF but it comes with a caveat that he should aim for gold. Unfortunately, that feat is no longer a reality so Rohr has to go our source revealed.

We will wait and see if the NFF will stand by their words and keep to their promise in the coming days.