Hearts of Oak need quality players to win trophies – Ernest Thompson
Former Accra Hearts of Oak board secretary Ernest Thompson has slammed the clubs bad recruitment strategy.
He explains that the club’s recruitment strategy in the last few years hasn’t contributed anything meaningful to the success of the club in the last decade.
Accra Hearts of Oak have failed to land any major silverware in the last decade, which has left most of the club’s supporters frustrated.
In a recent interview, the former legal mastermind said the club needs two or three game-changing signings that will influence the fortunes of the club and pull fans to the stadium like the good old days.
”Hearts of Oak SC cannot have the same type of players of the same standard, you need what we call two or three marquee players,”
”In the year 2000, Hearts of Oak had Sammy Adjei, Emmanuel Osei Kuffour, Ishmael Addo, Don Bortey and Charles Taylor who could make a difference in any given game
”So when Hearts of Oak is doing recruitment they should make sure that they have few players who are above average, you may not have best of eleven players at a time
He further adds that once the clubs invest in getting the quality players for the coach to use, it makes his job very easy as the players would be able to interpret the coaches instructions thoroughly on the pitch to the latter in order to win trophies and set the club up to greatness.
”So Hearts of Oak should focus on recruiting good players who are not on the same standard, winning laurels will be difficult.
”Management of Hearts of oak must take a look at the quality of recruitment. Recruitment policies need to be changed. he told Nhyira FM
In the last few years, Hearts of Oak, have fallen short of the standards that helped them rubbed shoulders with their bitter rivals, Asante Kotoko, lately, clubs like Aduana, Medeama, and AshGold are signing players of quality, which increasingly undermines the potency of the Accra based club on the local football landscape.
Hopefully, the advice from their former secretary will fall on good grounds to better inform the management of the next line of action.
