Alhaji Karim Grusah has revealed that he made his biggest money in football following the sale of Samuel Osei Kuffour.
Mallam Yahaya, Yussif Alhassan Chibsah, Shilla Ilyassu, Eric Gawu, and Opoku Afriyie, among others, have all been managed by the Ghanaian football administrator.
Despite transferring most of these players to clubs abroad, Alhaji Grusah the selling Sammy Kuffuor to Italian side Torino made him his biggest money in the football business to date.
“Italian 1991, Sammy Kuffuor, he was going to Torino. For Mallam Yahaya and Edu couldn’t get to his level, they were sold for $60,000 but it wasn’t only my money, there was an agency, African Football Agency who also benefited,” Alhaji Grusah told Dan Kwaku Yeboah in an interview.
Sammy Kuffuor who was one of Alhaji Grusah’s exports to Europe started his career playing for King Faisal in Ghana before he was transferred to Torino in Italy and was later captured by German side, Bayern Munich.
The defender won the UEFA Champions League with Bayern Munich in 2001.
Kuffour was part of the Black Stars team that qualified the country for its maiden 2006 World Cup hosted in Germany.