Former Hearts of Oak board secretary Ernest Thompson urges club to recruit quality player
The Phobians were among the best on the African continent in early 2000s. winning the CAF Champions League, Confederation Cup and CAF Super Cup within five years.
They have now struggled both in Africa and in Ghana for years now, and the best they have come in domestic and African top tier glory is to lift the Ghana Premier League 10 years ago and reaching the play-offs of the 2015 CAF Confederation Cup.
The club’s inability to reach their 2000s prime level has been attributed to poor management and signing of top talents.
Club’s former board secretary Ernest Thompson has made advice on Hearts of Oak’s recruitment plan, citing Sammy Adjei, Emmanuel Osei Kuffour, Ishmael Addo, Don Bortey and Charles Taylor as the benchmark for subsequent recruitment.
He urged the club to be strategic in recruitment by including few quality players to mix with the number of players they sign ahead of seasons.
”Hearts of Oak SC cannot have the same type of players of the same standard, you need what we call two or three mark key players,” he told Nhyira FM.
”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
”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. The recruitment policies needs to be changed.”
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