Former Asante Kotoko coach Seydou Zerbo's recent claims of sabotage during his time with the Reds have been swiftly refuted by his former assistant coach, Abdulai Gazale, who categorizes them as baseless allegations.
Gazale has vehemently denied any involvement in undermining Zerbo's coaching tenure, asserting that such accusations are devoid of truth and serve only to tarnish his professional reputation.
Reacting to Seydou Zerbo's allegations on Oyerepa FM Abdulai Gazale listed a number of incidents and added that he has worked with a number of coaches who have never complained about sabotage.
"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," he said.
"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,” he ended.