CELTIC outcast Efe Ambrose has been
unwittingly dragged into a bribing scandal in Nigeria after recommending
a coach who demanded money from stars who wanted to play for the Super
Eagles, The Scottish Sun reports.
Former Chelsea midfielder Emmanuel Sarki
had claimed he decided to snub Nigeria and play international football
for Haiti instead because he got sick of being asked to pay up to
£1,000 to play for the Super Eagles.
And Ambrose – who is currently out of
the picture at Parkhead – has unknowingly become a part of the scandal
because he was a former colleague of Sarki at Ashdod in Israel.
He revealed, “I was told to pay before I
am called up, that was when I was playing in Israel. I won’t mention
the name of the coach.
“It was Efe Ambrose who gave me the
contact of the coach after telling him of my form. I put a call across
to him, but he told me to speak with his assistant, who openly asked me
for money.
“A lot of friends asked me to pay the
money, but the sum they were quoting was way more than what I can
afford. I couldn’t pay it and despite my fine form, I wasn’t contacted
again.
“I have no regrets though about picking Haiti because you get picked on your form not on what you have to offer the coaches.”
Ambrose has been frozen out by Brendan
Rodgers this season and seems certain to leave this winter after an
August switch to Bayer Leverkusen failed to materialise.
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