Former Division One League Chairman Now Fianko says stiff competition from smaller clubs is the reason for the recent downfall of Asante Kotoko and Accra Hearts of Oak.
The two glamorous clubs in the country have lost their touch as in recent times they have been struggling to win the Ghana Premier League as well as the MTN FA Cup.
According to Ntow Fiako their ‘dubious’ ways to purchasing players decades ago has now been cut off with the emergence of technology in football.
‘’Hearts and Kotoko will find it difficult to wake up again because of competition from the smaller clubs,’’ he told Space FM.
‘’Their old way to acquiring players is now outmoded and there is no way they can steal players and hide them somewhere as they used to do in the past. Hearts used to get players from Great Olympics but now it’s not like that. Kotoko were taken players from B.A United, Bofoakwa and Cornerstone but how is the situation now?
‘’Again, previously they had the opportunity or ways to sending players to abroad but now obviously, the smaller clubs have links in abroad than Kotoko and Hearts.
‘Even now people are not willing to pump money in Hearts and Kotoko as it used to be.’’