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Former Asante Kotoko player Kwadwo Opoku Mahala has advised against focusing on chasing players abroad to switch nationality and play for the Black Stars.
Since the exclusion of Asamoah Gyan from the Black Stars in 2019, Ghana has struggled in scoring goals.
The team has experimented with several strikers including Athletic Bilbao star Inaki Williams but none of them has been able to make the position his own.
At the weekend, the English-born Ghanaian exhibited his goalscoring prowess when Arsenal inflicted a 5-0 win over Sheffield United, with Nketiah hitting his first hat-trick in the Premier League, forcing former Communication Director of the Ghana FA, Ibrahim Saanie Daara to endorse him as a natural replacement for Asamoah Gyan in the Black Stars.
But the former Asante Kotoko star thinks otherwise.
"Even if we go for Lionel Messi to come and play for Black Stars, it won't change anything. (Won't win anything) We like already-made too much. Let's build our own well and stop this attitude of today there is this player here there is this player there so we should go for him.
Let's build a good foundation, let's make our own well. Let's make the Ghana league well and we will get a whole lot of good players here. Local players are invited today, tomorrow they are excluded. We must be content with what we have and stop chasing players from abroad. So can't we get a player from the pool of Ghanaian clubs who is better than Nketiah, he is playing for Arsenal and so what ”
"We should fix the problems in the national team and stop haunting for diaspora players because it will not help us. Nketiah maybe scoring because of the players around him at Arsenal but our case is different. Inaki Williams is scoring at Bilbao but he is struggling with Ghana" he told Kessben FM in an interview.
Recently the Ghana FA announced five players before Ghana’s World Cup participation in Qatar.
In June 2022, five players switched allegiance to represent the Black Stars. Players like Inaki Williams, Tariq Lamptey, Ransford Yeboah, Patric Pfeiffer and Stephan Ambrosius switched nationality to play for Ghana before the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
Kwadwo Poku won two Ghana Premier League titles (2003 and 2007/08 seasons), SWAG Cup (2003) and GHALCA Cup (2003) during his playing days in Ghana.
He was a member of the Black Stars squad that secure qualification to the World Cup for the first time in 2006. However, he missed the squad for the World Cup finals in Germany.
Since the exclusion of Asamoah Gyan from the Black Stars in 2019, Ghana has struggled in scoring goals.
The team has experimented with several strikers including Athletic Bilbao star Inaki Williams but none of them has been able to make the position his own.
At the weekend, the English-born Ghanaian exhibited his goalscoring prowess when Arsenal inflicted a 5-0 win over Sheffield United, with Nketiah hitting his first hat-trick in the Premier League, forcing former Communication Director of the Ghana FA, Ibrahim Saanie Daara to endorse him as a natural replacement for Asamoah Gyan in the Black Stars.
But the former Asante Kotoko star thinks otherwise.
"Even if we go for Lionel Messi to come and play for Black Stars, it won't change anything. (Won't win anything) We like already-made too much. Let's build our own well and stop this attitude of today there is this player here there is this player there so we should go for him.
Let's build a good foundation, let's make our own well. Let's make the Ghana league well and we will get a whole lot of good players here. Local players are invited today, tomorrow they are excluded. We must be content with what we have and stop chasing players from abroad. So can't we get a player from the pool of Ghanaian clubs who is better than Nketiah, he is playing for Arsenal and so what ”
"We should fix the problems in the national team and stop haunting for diaspora players because it will not help us. Nketiah maybe scoring because of the players around him at Arsenal but our case is different. Inaki Williams is scoring at Bilbao but he is struggling with Ghana" he told Kessben FM in an interview.
Recently the Ghana FA announced five players before Ghana’s World Cup participation in Qatar.
In June 2022, five players switched allegiance to represent the Black Stars. Players like Inaki Williams, Tariq Lamptey, Ransford Yeboah, Patric Pfeiffer and Stephan Ambrosius switched nationality to play for Ghana before the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
Kwadwo Poku won two Ghana Premier League titles (2003 and 2007/08 seasons), SWAG Cup (2003) and GHALCA Cup (2003) during his playing days in Ghana.
He was a member of the Black Stars squad that secure qualification to the World Cup for the first time in 2006. However, he missed the squad for the World Cup finals in Germany.