It's Too Expensive To Sack Me And I Won't Quit, Migne Says After CHAN Defeat

NAIROBI, Kenya- Harambee Stars coach Sebastien Migne has put his foot down and stated that he will not resign from his post and has instead chosen to see out his contract despite recent misfortunes.

Migne was speaking after his locally based players were bundled out of the African Nations Championship (Chan) qualifiers by Tanzania, after they lost 4-1 on post-match penalties at the Kasarani Stadium on Sunday.

Kenya failed to penetrate the Tanzanian defense despite having the home advantage as the game ended in a barren draw, similar to the result in Dar es Saalam a week ago.

The result left a horrid taste in the mouths of Kenyan football fans who went up in arms calling for the French coach to resign, but the 46-year old tactician made it certain that even the federation cannot afford to sack him.

“About the sack, you can ask my president. If they [FKF] want to fire me, let them go ahead and fire me, but again if paying my salary is an issue, will they manage to pay out my contract?” he underlined.

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“I don’t have any excuse for the result, we were offered everything to compete at this level but you know how football can be, I gave my best, it is a difficult time for us, but I am still under contract,” Migne continued.

Migne, who failed to guide Kenya past the group stages at the recently concluded AFCON finals, also blamed the transfer of local players to other leagues outside Kenya as another reason why Kenya were outshone by their East African rivals.

“The team missed some maturity as we struggled to break them down and even the chances we created, we could not use them. It was simply not our day since we failed to click in the final third and thus we could not score goals again.”

“Look before we played in Chan, Francis [Kahata] left for Simba SC, we also lost keeper Farouk [Shikalo] to Yanga SC then Cliff [Nyakeya] left Mathare United.

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“Losing all those players and playing against a Tanzanian side which had mostly players who competed at the African Cup of Nations in Egypt was a tall order for us, but we cannot continue to cry, we are out and must focus on the next assignment,” he explained.

Despite the defeat, Migne pointed out that a number of players showed a reason to be in the first eleven of the future Harambee Stars senior team.

He further promised to enhance the offensive department and more so to find someone able to compete with number goalkeeper Patrick Matasi.