My coaching success has always been termed on the African striker. I feel I cannot be successful without an African striker. My belief in the African striker started with Porto's Benny McCarthy, who scored over 20 goals for me and Porto to win the Portuguese title. That season he scored a very important goal for me in the UEFA Champions League and marked our career in Europe by winning our first Champions League as a manager."
"From Portugal to Chelsea in England, I love Didier Drogba. He was a great African weapon who could take the Prime Ministership of England with me. I wanted Benny McCarthy to take Didier Drogba with me, but he was at Blackburn Rovers at the time and was the only striker there. So they refused to give us Benny McCarthy, despite the offer we put on the table."
I proceed from Chelsea to Inter Milan, because I want to be among those coaches that wanted to carry the UEFA Champions League and it will be recorded in inter Milan. But in Ghana there were only two midfielders and it wasn't enough to win the Champions League because we dominated the competition. So I thought a lot about signing an African striker again. I turned to FC Barcelona, they sold me the best asset of my career, Samuel Eto'o, and in one season with Eto'o we won the Champions League".
From Inter Milan to Real Madrid. We had all the talent at Real Madrid, but the reason we didn't win the Champions League was because we didn't have an African striker. The club real madrid went for Emmanuel Adebayor but we notice that he is on loan and so the club don't want to use a loan.
At my coaching institution, I teach new coaches that the team should always have an African striker.
Manchester United as a club is a good example that they don't soloely depend on African strikers for success. No wonder I didn't have much success there. Some strikes offer league titles, while African strikers offer champions.
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