After being mangled by the Burkinabe import gaffer over an alleged claims of sabotage on his dugout role at the Kumasi-based club, the young coach has now bitten back in equal measures
Asante Kotoko youth team coach Abduai Gazale has labelled as "baseless" allegation claims of sabotage made by former coach Seydou Zerbo against him in the local media earlier today.
In an explosive radio interview, the Burkina Faso outspoken manager claimed that, Gazale and goalkeeper's trainer lssah Najahu did everything within their powers to sabotage his work as he was finally shown the exit during the 2022/23 Ghana Premier League campaign.
In responding to these wild allegations levelled against him, the Asante Kotoko talents nurturing gaffer has refuted the claims, tagging them as baseless.
"It is unprofessional for Coach Seydou Zerbo to make these baseless allegations against me.I didn’t expect such thing to come from him because when I was around we played about six matches and he acted a way to me by shutting me up in the dressing room so I asked the management to stay out because I cannot work with someone who doesn’t trust me," Gazale fired in an interview with Kumasi-based radio station Oyerepa FM
"After the dressing room incident, he disgraced me before all the players, he told them he will never allow me to warm up with the players. As soon as I did that, Kotoko played about 16 matches and things were not going well,"
"Coach Zerbo cannot sit anywhere and accuse me of sabotaging him because the number of matches I was involved was lesser than the number of matches I was absent so how will I be somebody who was sabotaging him,"
"It’s an unfortunate statement he has made, I did not expect that from him. He is the only coach that has complained about sabotage out of the many coaches I’ve worked with."
