SHARKS GM GOES TOUGH.

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The Management of Sharks FC has told players and technical crew to get out of relegation waters by the end of the first stanza of the league or face severe sanctions.

General Manager of the team, Okey Kpaluku, handed down the warning during a crucial meeting with the technical crew yesterday.

Kpaluku, who was particularly disappointed with the manner the boys approached the last match against Shooting Stars Sports Club of Ibadan, described the attitude of the boys as unbecoming of a side that wants to win silverware.

“You must rise up to the occasion and make sure you are not at the bottom of the league table by the start of the second round of the league or be prepared for the worst from Management ”.Kpaluku said

Andrew Abalaogu of Enyimba against Odinga Odinga and Yusuf Jaiyeola of Sharks photo credit LMC Media

“How can you put up such an awful performance against 3SC and you expect me to be happy with you, that was one match you should have won with relative ease”.

He ordered the Head Coach, Daboere Dokubo, to ensure that any player who refuses to fall in line with the clubs drive of getting out of relegation waters, does not go unpunished, stressing that the days of treating gross misconduct with levity is over.

Kpaluku seized the opportunity to inform the players and officials that the LMC, has formally approved the team’s relocation to its traditional home ground (The Sharks Stadium) for the rest of the season, beginning with this weekend cracker against Nasarawa united.

Responding to the cheering news of a return to the Sharks Stadium, Captain of the side Odinga Odinga assured Management that Sharks will not be relegated and promised to give fifty free match ticket to the first fifty fans for tomorrow’s fixture against Nasarawa united at the Sharks Stadium.

“GM sir, this news of our going back to Sharks stadium will certainly boost our campaign and let me assure you that we will be among the teams that will play in the Glo premier league next season”.Odinga Said

GLO NPFL: Dokubo Savors Derby Against Dolphins

Interim head coach of Sharks football club of Port Harcourt Ere Dokubo is already savoring the build up to the local derby involving his team and Dolphins Fc when the Glo Nigeria premier league resumes this weekend.

Dokubo who will be leading a premier league side for the first time in his coaching career to a local derby says the tie against Dolphins means a lot to him because he was once a member of Dolphins technical crew when they won the doubles in two thousand four.

“The derby means a lot to me as head coach of Sharks because It is my first outing against a club that I was once involved in as a coach when they won both the league and F.A Cup in 2004”.Dokubo said

“Local derby has not been easy but we are use to it haven played against them severally, so we are going for victory and by the grace of God we will get it”.

Andrew Abalaogu of Enyimba against Odinga Odinga and Yusuf Jaiyeola of Sharks photo credit LMC Media

The calabari born soccer tactician says there will and can never be room for compromise when the two teams file out for action contrary to the thought of soccer enthusiasts each time both sides square up against each other.

“There is no compromise in a game like this, they are not comfortable on the log and we are not as well and nobody knows how the league will end that is why any point you can grab now you have to take it”.

Dokubo who was coach Gbenga Ogunbote’s right hand man in the dug out when he was with the team said Ogunbote will surely be missed describing the relationship between him and his former boss who left Sharks football Club about two weeks for Shooting Stars Sports Club of Ibadan as beyond friendship.

“Definitely i will say yes because there are people God will bring your way when they are out of the system you will miss them”.Dokubo added

“Gbenga is like a brother, our relationship is beyond that of friendship, haven worked together in Dolphins few years ago and now in Sharks for two years and today his exit has created a vacuum for me to occupy”. Dokubo said