RTU old players chide board

Ineffective governance, poor management, lack of transparency in the recruitment and transfer of players as well as a divided support base were some of the factors believed to have contributed to the poor performance of Real Tamale United (RTU) in the last five football seasons.

But the passive nature of the board of directors of the club was considered the main factor that gave rise to these conditions.

These were the observations made by the Retired Footballers Association (ReFA) of RTU in a press release issued in Tamale yesterday and signed by its secretary, Mr Mutawakilu Iddrisu.

The association expressed disappointment at the attitude of the club’s board of directors in the governance of the club.

“The directors of the club have over the years existed merely on paper and have done little to raise the club to a standard befitting a Premier League campaigner”, it stated.

“Members of the board cannot remember the last time they met to discuss the fate of the club. They have allowed politics, chieftaincy issues and personal interests to divide the club,” it added.

It stated: “RTU’s accolade as the pride of the North has been bastardised and ridiculed”.

The association, therefore, urged the board to get a competent management team to revive the club, and also called on its chairman, Mr Ibrahim Adam, to convene an emergency meeting of the board to address the issue.

By Marcelinus Dery/Graphic Sports/Ghana