Kotoko Regret Appointing Duncan

The Operations Manager of Asante Kotoko, George Kennedy claims the division of the club’s management to appoint David Duncan was a blunder.

The hierarchy of the Porcupine Warriors engaged the services of the former Hearts of Oak technical handler last season, which at that time, management, headed by Opoku Nti described his appointment as ‘best thing to happen Kotoko.’

However, after six matches into the 2015-16 Ghana Premier League (GPL) season, Kotoko were languishing at the bottom of the league log and Opoku Nti and his team asked Duncan to step aside until further notice.

Duncan has been defiant since the decision was made March early this year, insisting he is still the head coach of the club, and George Kennedy says they regretted appointing him.

“In a way, I will says our decision to appoint Duncan was wrong,” George Kennedy said in an interview with Kessben FM.

Mr. Kennedy revealed that the management ignored advises from some individuals who parched against his appointment.

“Before his appointment, there was pressure on us not to appoint him. Even some elders within Manhyia kicked against it, but we stood our grounds and appointed him.

“It was after his appointment that we realized we took a wrong decision. So we went back to all those who advised us and apologized to them.” He said.

Kotoko Regret Appointing Duncan

STATEMENT: Kotoko Accuse Duncan Of Disregarding Otumfuo

The Management of Kumasi Asante Kotoko have accused embattled coach David Duncan of acting in “dissonance” to his royal majesty Osei Tutu II’s directives.

In a press statement dated 6th June 2016 and signed by Communications Manager Kweku Ahenkorah, the management of the Porcupine Warriors stated that they are not going to react to comments the 52-year old made in a radio interview last week.

The press release further said, even though the club would have had a lot to say about the effusions of the coach, churned out on a Kumasi radio station, it found it imperative to respect the Asantehene, which Coach Duncan, by his utterances has disrespected.

While thanking the teeming Kotoko supporters for their unwavering confidence in the team, the press release additionally expressed management’s conviction that, the Porcupines would come out well in their quest to win laurels this season.

Duncan was asked to step aside by the management of Asante Kotoko last April following their lost away at Aduana Stars in the Ghana Premier League.

 

 

Bellow is the full statement:

 

Press Release

Date: June 6, 2016

Subject: Kotoko Will Not React to Duncan

Management of Asante Kotoko Sporting Club has learnt with regret that Coach David Duncan who has been told to “step aside” from his coaching duties at the club has acted in dissonance with directives from His Royal Majesty Otumfuo Osei Tutu II by going ahead to grant a radio interview about his current situation at the club but Kotoko will not react.

Kotoko would under normal circumstances have a lot to say about his submissions but unlike other clubs, Kotoko is profoundly etched in the rich tradition of the Ashanti Kingdom which is epitomized by the unwavering obedience, which everybody associated with the club, carries out directives issued by His Royal Majesty.

As a result, if Coach Duncan chooses to defy the Great King management will not be goaded to react. Additionally, we have absolute confidence in the capabilities of our board chairman, Lawyer Paul Adu-Gyamfi, who has been mandated by Manhyia to find an amicable solution to the impasse with Coach Duncan. We are of the strongest conviction that the outcome would be in the supreme interest of the club.

Management also expresses its gratitude to fans of the club for their patience and support during our turbulent times in the first round.

Their unwavering support will be the key ingredient to annexing this season’s league diadem. Fabulous, the Greatest!

Thank you.

Signed

Kwaku Ahenkorah

Communications Manager.

 

STATEMENT: Kotoko Accuse Duncan Of Disregarding Otumfuo

Kotoko-Duncan Agree Compensation Package

Sportscrusader.com can confirm that Kumasi Asante Kotoko are all but done with a compensation package for their suspended head coach, David Duncan.

Duncan endured a frustrating full season at the club, leading to the decision by the management to suspend him ‘indefinitely’ following the side’s unflattering 2015/16 Premier League campaign.

The ex-Hearts coach’s bad spell was compounded when after his suspension was officially publicised, he refused to accept the decision and attended training at the Adako Jachie base only to be swerved as the team trained under his assistant, Michael Osei at the Baba Yara Stadium.

The source revealed to sportscrusader.com that, the board and management have been holding a series of meetings with Duncan’s representatives on an appropriate compensation and the last meeting appeared to be the most successful.

With the dust finally settling, it all but confirms Duncan’s official departure from Kotoko who appear to have found their form and consistency with just one defeat since Duncan was relieved off his post.

Kotoko-Duncan Agree Compensation Package

AshGold Contact David Duncan

AshantiGold Sporting Club has contacted beleaguered Kumasi Asante Kotoko coach, David Duncan as a potential replacement for Bashir Hayford.

The Miners have not had the best of starts to the 2015-16 Ghana Premier League (GPL) season, and pressure is mounting on administrators of the club to replace Bashir Hayford.

David Duncan, who led AshantiGold between 2009 and 2011, is considered a difficult character within the management of the club, but they are certain he is the best man to lead the club should they part company with Hayford.

The Kotoko boss was asked to step aside until further notice by his current employers, and it is believed he will not head the technical bench of the Porcupine Warriors again now that stopgap coach Michael Osei has led the team to five wins in six games with.

AshGold Contact David Duncan

David Duncan Gives Kotoko Two Options

Beleaguered Kumasi Asante Kotoko head coach, David Duncan has given his employers two options to take.

The legal team of the former AshantiGold boss met with the Board Chairman of the Porcupine Warriors over the weekend to table an ultimatum to the club.

According to sportscrusader.com sources, the legal team on behalf of David Duncan, told the Board Chairman to choose between paying their client off or reinstating him by the close of the week.

The Board Chairman, Paul Adu Gyamfi did not give an immediate response. It is believed he said he will hold a meeting with the entire Board and Management of the club to decide the fate of Coach Duncan.

David Duncan was appointed in February last year, and he led the record league champions to finish second behind AshantiGold in last season’s Ghana Premier League.

But he was asked to step aside until further notice after a series of poor results in the 2015/16 Ghana Premier League (GPL).

David Duncan Gives Kotoko Two Options

Duncan’s Appointment Was A Mistake- Osei Palmer

President of Division One League side, Tema Youth and Executive Committee member of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Winfred Osei Palmer has stated that, Asante Kotoko made a mistake right from the start by appointing David Duncan as the coach of the club.

Duncan was appointed head coach of Kotoko amidst pump and pageantry in the course of last season after the club, had parted ways with Didi Dramani following a string of poor results.

The former Hearts of Oak trainer, despite the club’s poor start managed to steer them to second place finish behind eventual champions Ashanti Gold SC.

The 52-year old trainer however failed to replicate the performance of last season and started the 2015/2016 Ghana Premier League with just a single win in six game, which prompted the Management of the Porcupine Warriors to ask him to Step aside following a 1-0 defeat at Aduana Stars on Match Week six.

The former Ghana Premier League Champions, began life after Duncan, on a good note last Sunday by defeating Liberty Professionals 3-1 at the Baba Yara stadium in Kumasi.

Speaking in an interview on Tuesday, Mr. Wilfred Osei Palmer noted that David Duncan and Kotoko were a mis-match from the beginning

“Duncan was not the right coach for Kotoko, he had it all wrong from the very start,” Osei Palmer said.

“The timing of Duncan when he assumed the position at Kotoko was wrong, especially looking at the circumstances Kotoko parted ways with Didi Dramani.

“Duncan has never been accepted by Kotoko as one of their kind so it is a marriage of suspicion, his loyalty to the club has always been questionable.

“Most of the Kotoko guys have never liked that idea of bringing him to Kotoko so i think that marriage shouldn’t have happened at all.” He added.

Duncan’s Appointment Was A Mistake- Osei Palmer

I Need Your Blessings To Succeed - Michael Osei To Duncan

Interim head coach of Kumasi Asante Kotoko, Michael Osei has asked his former boss for his blessings, to succeed in his career.

Duncan was asked by employers to step aside until further notice on Sunday after a series of poor results in the 2015/16 Ghana Premier League (GPL).

Osei, was tasked to take over the coaching responsibilities, and his critics have described him as a traitor.

He has been accused of masterminding Duncan’s failure at the club, but the former Mainz midfielder has written a text message to his boss.

The text intercepted by sportscrusader.com reads:

“You’re one of a kind and I will never do anything against you. Please don’t let the public destroy the relationship we built. I will need your blessings to succeed in my career.”

Sports crusader did not chance on David Duncan’s reply but it is believed he bare no grudges with his assistant.

Michael Osei led Kotoko’s training session on Tuesday and Wednesday.

I Need Your Blessings To Succeed - Michael Osei To Duncan

Problems In Kotoko Are Not Coach"s Fault - Mends

Former Kumasi Asante Kotoko trainer, Ebo Mends has said the unending problems at the club, is not the fault of coaches. Kotoko have started the 2015/16 Ghana Premier League (GPL), poorly and is languishing at the bottom of the  league table. Management of the club asked David Duncan to step aside until further notice,though Ebo Mends, admits the results are not good, he won’t blame Duncan for the outcome. “Looking at the league table and where Kotoko is lying now, it is very surprising and very worrying but in all, I think Duncan should not be blamed,” Mends said in an interview with Asempa FM. “Coaching Kotoko is not an easy task and seeing Duncan in this situation I know it not easy for him as a coach, because I have also been in this same situation.” He said. Ebo Mends also called the ex-Great Olympics coach to resign because the directive from the club means ‘sacked’. “If I am Coach Duncan, I will resign from Kotoko because,step aside simply means you are sacked and I don’t understand why the management are failing to tell Duncan to you are fired.” Ebo Mends who also had stint with Berekum Arsenals alleged that the playing body are part of the problems. “The truth is the problem within Kotoko it is not always the coach but sometimes the players play a part in creating all these problems.” he alleged.

Problems In Kotoko Are Not Coach"s Fault - Mends

Duncan Squandered His Chance At Kotoko

The ‘dribbling magician’, Mohammed Polo in an interview with Sportscrusader.com, mentioned that, he believes beleaguered Kumasi Asante Kotoko coach, David Duncan ‘wasted’ his chance during his time with the Kumasi based side.

The former Ashgold coach was relieved of his coaching duties with the record Ghana premier league champions on Monday morning after a string of poor results in the ongoing 2015/16 Ghana premier league season.

Under his tenure as Kotoko coach, the side started a season poorly for the first time in fifteen years with just one win recorded in 6-matches played so far and Polo who knows how difficult it is managing Kotoko’s arch-rivals, Hearts believes Duncan just could not handle the coaching post.

He said, “Duncan has to accept the management’s decision to relieve him of his coaching post as this comes along with being a coach and treat this as one of those.”

“unfortunately for Duncan he missed the opportunity to coach one of Ghana’s biggest club’s and that is the hard fact. Such chances can make or unmake depending on how you grab the chance. He thought because he had a good pre-season it was a justification that even a poor league start will still keep him in a job and this complacency has cost him.”

Duncan Squandered His Chance At Kotoko

Current Happenings At Kotoko Vindicates Me

Former Kumasi Asante Kotoko combative midfielder, Daniel Nii Adjei feels vindicated with the current wranglings in the side.

Kotoko has started the side poorly and this poor ran has seen coach David Duncan lose his job as head coach of the side but the ex-Hearts coach has refused to accept the management’s decision to ‘step aside’.

Adjei who recently hit hard at his old side’s poor and childlike administrative running of the record Ghana premier league champions and this comment saw some management members yell insult at the TP Mazembe midfielder.

Flash back: Daniel Nii Adjei during his time with Kotoko

But Adjei who scored for the DR Congo side in last years FIFA World club championship in Japan has taken to his Facebook wall to call on the management to down their head in shame for the shameful happenings within and around the club.

Daniel Nii Adjei’s Facebook wall status

He wrote, “When you say something about the team Kotoko some people will always attack you. I remember I said they are managing the team like a ‘small team’ and someone from the management insulted me but now look at how shameful they are doing to the team.”

Current Happenings At Kotoko Vindicates Me

NSA Sack Kotoko From Baba Yara Stadium

The National Sports Authority (NSA) has prevented Asante Kotoko from using the Baba Yara Sports Stadium for this afternoon’s training session.

The Porcupine Warriors used the facility for their training session this morning without approval from heads of the edifice.

They returned to the Stadium this afternoon to train, but the  NSA boss in the Ashanti Region, Iddrisu Richard denied them that opportunity.

Kotoko will head to their Adako Jachie training grounds, a place they refused to use earlier today in their bid to stay away from Coach David Duncan who was asked to step aside after their 1-0 league loss to Aduana Stars on Sunday.

Coach David Duncan, was at the Adako Jachie training grounds to oversee this morning’s training and promised to return to the ground this afternoon for training.

Kotoko officials changing the padlock of Adako Jachie training ground after Duncan had left.

Kotoko officials changed the padlock of the training pitch, but Board Chairman Paul Adu Gyamfi will call David Duncan before the team travels to the venue.

NSA Sack Kotoko From Baba Yara Stadium

6 Things That Epitomized Duncan"s Kotoko Career

“David Duncan is the best thing to happen to Kotoko,” were the words of General Manager Opoku Nti after confirming his appointment on 19 March, 2015.

Exactly 380 days down the line, Management has revised their notes and wants the ‘best thing’ to step aside for his understudy, Michael Osei to take over the technical affairs of the club.

Below are the five things that epitomized Duncan’s career at Kotoko.

1: DRAW IN FIRST MATCH

After several weeks of speculation after Coach Didi Dramani was given127 days accumulated leave, David Duncan traveled with the team for the first leg of their CAF Champions League tie against  Algerian side, A.S Eulma.

He was not on the bench for the game but led the training in Algeria, thus, had a hand in the selection of the team that played. After a successful result, Kotoko fans started dreaming. Opoku Nti said he was the best thing to happen to Kotoko.

Hopes were sky high that post Didi’s era will be the end to their fruitless CAF Champions League run. He accompanied the draw in Algeria with a win in Bechem.

2: DARK SKY IN KUMASI

The usual Sunday fufu filled the gutters in the Garden City when Eulma came to Ghana for the second leg of their continental campaign.

The heartbreak in Kumasi

With expectations high that the fortunes of their torrid season was over, Eulma stunned Asante Kotoko at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium. Obed Owusu’s 40th minute goal was cancelled after an hour and the comeback was completed late in the game.

Eulma broke on the counter, and punched out Kotoko out of the competition. There were murmurs because Didi Dramani never lost at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium.

Nevertheless, Duncan was the toast of the fans with some buying stickers of the coach as well as folding their white long sleeves which they popularly termed as the Duncan effect.

However, pressure began to mount on the team after a host of poor results. The team was largely inconsistent in the second round of the league and had a double header against AshGold and Hearts.

3: ENDING ASHGOLD’S DOMINANCE

When Duncan was the toast of Kumasi township.

With voices of frustration hovering over Duncan and his team for inconsistency, the former AshantiGold boss dropped his former employers dead. AshGold had dominated Kotoko in the Top 4-beating them home and away, and also winning the first game of the Ghana Premier league match in Obuasi.

But Dauda Mohammed poured ice on the nerves with a header to settle the tie. Fans cheered. He defeated Aduana Stars in the semi-finals of the MTN FA Cup, booking a ticket to the final at the Essipong Sports Stadium.

4. BEATING HEARTS IN ACCRA

No matter the poor results Kotoko accumulates in a season, victory over Hearts of Oak is one fans will relish any day. After reports of an alleged robbery attack on the team at their hotel base in Accra in the early hours of the match day, Duncan and his boys walked on the Accra Sports Stadium pitch looking to avenge the defeat they suffered to Hearts earlier in the season which got Coach Didi Dramani sacked.

Dauda Mohammed who had been brought from the club’s youth set up, lightened up the Accra Sports Stadium with a double. Duncan wrote his name in the pantheon books of coaches to have led Kotoko to a victory in Accra over their bitterest rivals.

The win was more sweeter because it dropped Hearts of Oak to the relegation zone, and fans sang ‘yaanom, bye bye ooo, bye by ooo.”

5: FA CUP DEFEAT

Kotoko lost MTN FA Cup to Medeama

Kotoko’s miserable season was compounded in Takoradi when Medeama SC floored the then defending League and FA Cup champions at the Essipong Stadium in the MTN FA Cup final, having already been stripped off six points for fielding ineligible player in the leahue win over Hearts of Oak.

6: KOTOKO’S WORST START

2015/16 Ghana Premier League was a season Kotoko fans anticipated much, but it has became a season some of them have never experienced – the team went four league matches without a win – their worst start in 42 years.

Kotoko suffer first defeat in Sogakope

Mr. Duncan said this season was nothing new to the team, and that, last season was worse, but unbeknownst to him,  Kotoko had amassed two wins and a draw under his predecessor, Didi Dramani at that stage.

6 Things That Epitomized Duncan"s Kotoko Career

Kotoko Ready For Legal War With Duncan

Kumasi Asante Kotoko is ready to battle David Duncan legally after he refused to accept management’s decision to relieve him of his post.

The Management of Asante Kotoko on Sunday asked Coach Duncan to step aside until further notice.

But Coach Duncan in response to the notification, told the club that ‘step aside’ is alien to the contract he signed about a year ago and that he will not accept it.

According to sportscrusader.com sources, the legal team of David Duncan advised him to continue working, but Kotoko on the other hand insist Michael Osei will oversee the technical affairs of the club until further notice.

The legal team of coach David Duncan has given Kotoko three days ultimatum to address their decision or meet them in court.

And Kotoko have told sportscrusader.com that they are ready to face them head on. The Management insist they’ve not sacked Coach Duncan and will not part ways with him.

Their decision is only to ascertain where the problem for the current abysmal results is coming from.

Kotoko Ready For Legal War With Duncan

PHOTOS: Kotoko Assistant Coach Overseeing Training

The Management of Kumasi Asante Kotoko has moved today’s training session to the Baba Yara Sports Stadium.

Michael Osei leading training session at Baba Yara sports stadium

The team’s training session is always held at the Adako Jachie training grounds, but management moved the training to the Baba Yara Stadium to avoid having Coach Duncan taking the sesssion.

The team will return to the Baba Yara Sports Stadium at 15:00 GMT for a second training session today.

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PHOTOS: Kotoko Assistant Coach Overseeing Training

PHOTOS: Duncan Training Ground

Duncan waiting for Kotoko playing body.

Asante Kotoko head coach, David Duncan is at the Adako Jachie training grounds to oversee today’s training session today.

But the playing body is with Michael Osei at the Baba Yara Sports in Kumasi.

Below are images from the Adako Jachie training base where Duncan is seated waiting for his team.

 

 

 

 

Images credit: Yaw Sanogo, Kiss FM

PHOTOS: Duncan Training Ground

Top 10 David Duncan Quotes As Kotoko Coach

After 380 days at the helm of affairs as technical head of Kumasi Asante Kotoko, David Duncan has been shown the exit door.

The Porcupine Warriors says the recent results of the club and the position they currently occupy is ‘unprecedented’, and have asked Coach Duncan to step aside.

In David Duncan’s one-year, two weeks at the head of the club, the former AshGold boss made some interesting comments.

Below are the top ten David Duncan quotes.

1. When the management of Kotoko unveiled him as Didi Dramani’s successor, elated David first words were impressive.

He said: “In all my coaching life; I have served at my father’s hometown, that’s in the Fanti area. My father is a Fanti. I’ve served where I was raised – where I’ve spent virtually all the days of my life; that’s Accra. I’ve served all the two glamorous, traditional or well-known clubs – Olympics and Hearts.

“It would’ve been very criminal not to have served where my mother comes from.”

2. David Duncan has not won a ‘major’ trophy in his coaching career. The media have never lost the opportunity to remind him that he is a ‘failure’ in major competitions.

But to David Duncan, the SWAG Cup and other invitationals are major and his inability to win the League title nor FA Cup despite coming very close does not interrupt his slumber. But you and I know that those titles don’t really count. He was unable to lead Kotoko to the title defence of the league and the FA Cup where he lost 2-1 in the final to Medeama SC. For Duncan, the drought does not really bother him.

“I lose no sleep when people talk about the fact that I haven’t won the league. If you go back into your archives or annals and find the types of cups I have won, [they are] the type of cups that no quarter is asked for and no quarter is given.”

3. David Duncan jubilated down the touchline after Dauda Mohammed hammered in his side’s 3rd goal against Bechem United at Baba Yara Sports Stadium.

It was the first time Duncan got so emotional in that manner. But at the post match meet the press, he was a different person.

When quizzed why he jubilated down the touchline, Duncan replied that it was “spontaneous”.

4. When the media were frustrated in the manner he answered the questions, he blurted out:

“If I talk you [media] people will say I’m talking too much and I have decided to answer your questions in brief you are still complaining that I’m not talking, so what do you want me to do now; I demand some respect from you.”

5. David hit back at journalists when Kotoko were dropped to the relegation zone.

“That’s all you do, you sit down and analyze me without knowing what I am about, so I have decided to leave the analyses to you whilst I continue to do my work.”

6. David war of words with the media seemed to be an unending. Staying:

“If I respect you as a journalist and you do something that I think you didn’t get right that is when I try to discuss with you because for some of you who perhaps do not know my background I have a little bit of journalistic background, not a trained journalistic background but it was like we just performed it without knowing.

7. He also insinuated that no matter how good journalists are, they can never  be coaches.

“I respect journalists but I know we have had quite a number of people not doing things right but I won’t fault them because maybe they choose to do it that way as their style.

8. “If you sit in a studio and you haven’t coached or played football before and you tell me Akowuah should have been here, oh you have said it –no problem but that is why I always say in football you never argue –that is why as long as I remain as a coach I will never go and sit on a radio or TV station as a pundit.

9. “It is as cheap as that but as I always say a log can be in a pool for hundred years with crocodiles but it can never be a crocodile, you can talk about football but you can never sit in the technical area as a coach.”

10. After his final game as head coach against Aduana Stars, David Duncan claim the output of his players was the best he has seen since taking over the job.

“The performance of the boys was great and fantastic. I haven’t seen anything like this before from the Kotoko players ever since I took over the job,”.

Top 10 David Duncan Quotes As Kotoko Coach

Things We Learnt From Kotoko 3rd League Defeat

Kumasi Asante Kotoko suffered their third league defeat against Aduana Stars on Match Week Six action of the 2015/16 Ghana Premier League (GPL) last Sunday.

Yahaya Mohammed stunned his former employers, dropping them to the foot of the Premier League table with the only goal ofthe match.

Here are three things we learnt.

Kotoko Don’t Learn:

Asante Kotoko this time last year were in a similar situation, forcing the Board to replace Mas ud Didi Dramani as coach.

He was sent on accumulated leave and was eventually replaced by David Duncan. He steered the team to finish second, but the Board failed to learn from the situation that caused their downfall last season.

Internal bickering, players tagged ‘enemies of a regime’ and Board and Management backbiting. The issues has eaten deep into the players and that was key in their defeat.

David Duncan is not Kotoko’s problem.

In the game of football, the crashing block fall on the head of the coach when results are not positive. David Duncan must accept responsibility because he chaired the team that released 14 players and recruited 12.

But the former is miles away from the source of the problem. The internal scheming to get him sacked began after the two all stalemate against Medeama SC and the team has always played to the voices of the powerful people in the club.

The boys played above themselves in last Sunday’s, but the spirit that hold a team to victory is sold.

Kotoko players are a disgrace to the profession. 

Bad results are inevitable when off the the pitch issues takes center stage. Kumasi Asante Kotoko has been hit with bad media reports since the opening day loss to WAFA, but the players have failed to wake.

The playing body’s freedom is restricted under Coach David Duncan,  but to let the coach down to satisfy your selfish desire is criminal in the game of football.

Things We Learnt From Kotoko 3rd League Defeat

Eric Donkor Returns For Kotoko

Kumasi Asante Kotoko’ s left winger, Eric Donkor is in contention for a place in the line up when they take on Liberty Professionals on Sunday.

The versatile winger has been out for three weeks with a foot injury, but has returned to training with the team and could be in line to feature for the club again this season.

His return is a major boost for the club that is under extreme pressure to return to winning ways as they sit bottom of the log following last Sunday’s 0-1 loss to Aduana Stars in their last league game.

 

Eric Donkor Returns For Kotoko

Kotoko Needs Their Own Stadium - Duncan

David Duncan, head coach of Kumasi Asante Kotoko, has suggested that the club should get its own stadium.

The Porcupine Warriors uses the state owned stadium, Baba Yara in Kumasi for their matches in all competitions for the past five or so decades.

But David Duncan has suggested that the team’s ‘fortunes will be changed drastically’ if they have their own stadium.

“The performance of the team was good but I think if we have our own stadium like they [Aduana] do, Kotoko’s fortunes would change drastically,” Duncan said.

“I do not think any team can beat Kotoko if we also had a stadium like they do here. In that case, we would win every home game,” he added.

Duncan explained that a team with it’s own pitch enjoy undue advantage.

“I’m saying if Kotoko have their own stadium like it is here, I think that Kotoko will win the league as long as they want to,” Duncan repeated.

The former AshGold boss also refused to accept defeat, saying the result was not a fair reflection of the game.

“The performance of the boys was great and fantastic. I haven’t seen anything like this before from the Kotoko players ever since I took over the job,” he added.

Kotoko dropped to the foot of the table after their 1-0 loss to Aduana Stars on Sunday. They will host Liberty Professionals who trashed defending champions AshGold 5-1 at the Carl Reindorf Park on Sunday.

Kotoko Needs Their Own Stadium - Duncan

Kotoko Sack Duncan

Kumasi Asante Kotoko has asked head coach, David Duncan to temporarily stay away from his coaching duties until further notice.

The beleaguered coach has come under immense pressure due to poor performance since the commencement of the 2015/16 Ghana premier league season.

Kotoko has lost three times, drawn two and won just once this season and appears the recent defeat in match week 6 to Aduana Stars has broken the back of the camel And has seen the former Ashgold coach asked to step aside.

The Kotoko press statement relieving Duncan of his post

The press release asked Duncan to stay away with immediate effect as it has become necessary due to recent results.

Kotoko Sack Duncan