'Build A Strong Academy' - Frimpong Manso Tells New Kotoko Board

Asante Kotoko legend, Frimpong Manso, has implored the new Board of the club to focus on building a proper Academy and lower their priority in playing in Africa.

According to him, the Academy is the future of the club and therefore need to be revamped to meet the modern trend of football Academy which will produce top talents for the club’s senior team.

Life patron and owner of the club, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, recently retained Executive chairman of the club Dr Kwame Kyei to head a newly constituted nine-member board.

The board has been tasked to rebuild the club for commercial purposes.

But Frimpong has advised leaders of the club to make the academy project their topmost priority.

"The Academy is Kotoko future. If it is instituted, the team will be stable forever because that is how the trend of football is going, you can't be buying players every season," he told Kumasi based Light FM.

"The set-up should even start from the Under 10 and rank through.

"They should stop thinking about winning Africa and build a solid foundation first and afterwards, it will come automatically."

He also urged the board to work to resolve why there is always a problem between the board and the management.

"The board of directors constituted at Kotoko is good but they should determine the problem of conflict which keeps repeating between them(BoD) and the management from time immemorial.

"They should come together and work peacefully with a strong laid down structure for the progress of the club."

Frimpong Manso, a former Ghana international also charged the board to honour the legends of the club.

"There are a lot of things Kotoko can do to honour their old players. They seem neglected.

"They can display their various pictures at the club's secretariat, preferential treatment at the stadium or probably involving them in the senior team with their advice," he added.

The inauguration of the nine new member board has been postponed by Manhyia Palace.