Ghana should withdraw from 2027 AFCON – Kojo Addae Mensah

Football analyst Kojo Addae Mensah has proposed that Ghana should contemplate withdrawing from the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifiers due to concerns surrounding the appointment of a new head coach. This suggestion follows the departure of Carlos Queiroz, with Ghana's next match against Somalia set for November 11. The Ghana Football Association (GFA) has approximately six weeks to select a new coach and prepare the team. A five-person technical search committee has been tasked with finding a suitable replacement.

During an interview on Luv FM, Addae Mensah questioned the feasibility of the process, particularly if the incoming coach is already contracted elsewhere and must serve a notice period. He also highlighted the financial implications of hiring a new coach, which could sway the final decision. "From what has come out, it was not crucial.

We have sacked the coach. We are playing a game on 11th November. So we have six weeks to a game. Then everybody talks about the next coach without talking about the budget. But there's always the money thing that also pulls people back," he stated.

Furthermore, Addae Mensah raised doubts about the time the new coach would have to work with the players before Ghana's next match. "Coach will come in, let's say, end of October or last but one week of October. Coach has arrived, but he has already have the team with him. Whoever the coach is going to have barely one week with the team, and we go into the Somalia game," he remarked.

Taking these factors into account, Kojo Addae Mensah proposed an extreme alternative: Ghana withdrawing from the 2027 AFCON altogether. "My extreme suggestion was we should even pull out of the whole AFCON," he declared. Currently, the Black Stars have not won a match in their first two games, suffering losses to Gambia and Ivory Coast, which has left them at the bottom of Group C.