{"id":432756,"date":"2017-10-31T21:30:34","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T21:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/10\/31\/kotoko-ready-to-open-contract-extension-talks-with-steve-pollack\/"},"modified":"2017-10-31T21:30:34","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T21:30:34","slug":"kotoko-ready-to-open-contract-extension-talks-with-steve-pollack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/10\/31\/kotoko-ready-to-open-contract-extension-talks-with-steve-pollack\/","title":{"rendered":"Kotoko ready to open contract extension talks with Steve Pollack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/21041217.295.jpg\" alt=\"Pollock Asante\" title=\"Pollock Asante\" width=\"295\" height=\"192\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Kotoko are keen to retain Steve Pollack as head coach.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=150909146990235\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=150909146990235\"><br \/>\n\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1509485434_460_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Asante Kotoko Executive Chairman Dr Kwame Kyei has revealed the club are keen to retain Steve Pollack as head coach.<\/p>\n<p>Pollack&#8217;s future has been speculated since the Ghana Premier League ended last week.<\/p>\n<p>The Englishman joined the Porcupine Warriors midway through the season after Croatian Zdravko Lugarusic was sacked.<\/p>\n<p>After guiding the Porcupine Warriors to victory in the 2017 MTN FA Cup last Sunday in Tamale, the club wants him to stay.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;I gave the team a target to win the league by failing.This achievement is equally a good one and we thank God. Kudos to the entire for the performance,&#8221; Dr Kyei said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;The Coach? He should be staying. We are ready to keep him so it depends on him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;I want to sort the situation about his future. A couple of days ago, we agreed that we will sort it out after the Cup finals. 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Asante Kotoko Executive Chairman Dr Kwame Kyei has revealed the club are keen to retain Steve Pollack as head coach. Pollack&#8217;s future has been speculated since the Ghana Premier League ended last week. The Englishman joined the Porcupine Warriors midway through the season after Croatian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":432268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kotoko ready to open contract extension talks with Steve Pollack - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/10\/31\/kotoko-ready-to-open-contract-extension-talks-with-steve-pollack\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Kotoko ready to open contract extension talks with Steve Pollack - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Kotoko are keen to retain Steve Pollack as head coach. 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