According to former Executive Member of Asante Kotoko, Kojo Bonsu, the main issue plaguing the team is fan impatience.
Asante Kotoko has had numerous changes in both its technical and management departments during the last decade.
Successive managements have caved in to fan pressure to change managers whenever the club has a run of bad results.
In the last ten years, the club has appointed coaches such as Mas-Ud Didi Dramani, David Duncan, Michael Osei, Croatian Zdravko Lugarusic, Godwin Ablodey, Frimpong Manso, Steve Polack, Paa Kwesi Fabin, Kjetel Zachiariason, Prosper Narteh Ogum, and most recently Seydou Zerbo.
Similar changes have occurred in the club’s Board of Directors and management in recent years.
However, Bonsu thinks Kotoko can only achieve results and win trophies with long-term planning and consistency in both the club’s coaching and administrative departments.
“There’s a problem with Kotoko and Kumasi, we don’t have the patience to see good results. You need to build but they want instant results and it won’t work. I’ve worked with Kotoko for many years, in 1983 the cup we won we went through 79, 80, 81 and went to the final in 82 before going to the finals to win the cup in 83,” he told Luv FM.
“So you need to build the crescendo but we are not building. One minute you hear there’s a coach from Burkina Faso, the next you hear he’s been sacked. We need to have patience,” he stressed.
