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The former Porcupine Warriors boss believes the veteran Ghana striker will be better off playing for the Kumasi team.
Former Asante Kotoko coach Abdul Malik Jabir regretted Asamoah Gyan’s decision to join the Legon Cities over the Porcupine Warriors.
Gyan joined Cities on a one-year deal last week, marking his return to the Ghana Premier League (GPL) for the first time since joining Udinese from Italian Serie A in 2003.
Before sealing his transfer to the Royals, the 34-year-old was strongly attached to Kotoko, whom he has a personal desire to represent before retiring from active soccer.
Until last December, Legon was known as Wa All Stars.
“Gyan’s return is good for the local league, but I wish he had joined Kotoko because I have seen that his heart goes out to Kotoko, but maybe we didn’t have the money to carry him,” Jabir told Luv FM.
“If he had come to Kotoko, it would have been so much easier for him than fighting in that small team.
“They [Legon] now they are fighting to leave because it is a new team. It is not your fault; they are a new side that is struggling to succeed.
“So, it means that he [Gyan] he will fight there more than if he had come to Kotoko. “
Gyan was without a club for nine months. His last stint, a short-term contract with NorthEast United of the Indian Super League, ended in January.
“I have said countless times that I have Kotoko in my heart. I have also said that I will play for them before I retire from the game,” the former Sunderland striker told Adom TV.
“As I don’t have a club, it was speculated that the deal had been closed, but as a professional footballer, we don’t do it like that.
“I have made it known that I will play for them but at least we have to go through processes because I am still a professional footballer.
“I don’t want people to downgrade the Ghana league. Sometimes people even make mistakes.” [by their assumption] that if a player travels abroad, he becomes a professional footballer. But they don’t know that the Ghana league is professional.
“Kotoko should do everything professionally, although I have said that I will play for them. I can’t just get up and say I’m going to play for the club. I’m available, so when they’re ready, we’ll have to sit down and go over everything related to signing a contract. “
In his previous and only GPL spell, Gyan scored 10 goals for Liberty Professionals in 2003.
