Hearts coach urged to control Kingston’s ego

Posted On Thursday, 18th October 2012

Laryea Kingston has been suspended indefinitely

Ex-Hearts defender Amankwah Mireku has advised CK Akunnor to learn how to manage the egos of star players like Laryea Kingston.

The 30-year-old is serving an indefinite suspension after he clashed with the trainer during the off-season.

Hearts officials are reluctant to lift the sanction after claiming the former Vitesse Arheim midfielder has not shown enough remorse.

But the ex-Ghana international went crackers on Wednesday and insisted he did no wrong to issue a public apology.

The former Hearts great has waded into the controversy and insists the coach has a bigger responsibility to play in cooling the tension that exits between the two parties.

“We have different types of players. If you want to consider his behaviour it will not work. As a coach you just have to look at what he can do on the pitch for you,” Mireku told Kumasi-based Fox FM

“The coach must know how to control such players.

“If only he will be disciplined on the field, why not. He is a senior player with lots of experience and so if he’s part of the team, it will help.

“He feels he’s not done anything wrong for him to apologise. Let me ask you, if you know you have not wronged anyone and you’re asked to apologise, what will the apology centre on?

“Having said that, I will just urge Laryea to forget about everything and probably do as they wish in the supreme interest of his career and for the club.”

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READERS COMMENTS

bawah says:

October 18, 2012 at 3:05 pm

THE CONTACT WITH PROFESSIONALS AND LOCAL COATCHES IS VERY COMPLICATED!KINGSTON CALM DOWN AND BRING YOUR SKILL INTO THE TEAM.WE NEED ALL OF YOU;

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Berko says:

October 18, 2012 at 8:57 pm

pls those who are saying laryea is an experienced and good player are still living in the olden days, laryea was once great but now he has nothing to offer, have u guys forgotten about last season, what was his real contribution to the hearts set up,have u forgotten about hearts and kotoko when he foolishly went for an unnecessary tackle and got a red card which affected the team so much even after the young guys have fought hard to equalize. it took another old chap sammy adjei to give kotoko the lead again after the injury of macathy.fellow phobians let me tell u our local league is too physical even more than the european league so guys who cannot play in europe surely cannot play in ghana.example is seth owusu u ve seen how bad he was that the coach has to change him, leave laryea alone let us reject him as the black stars rejected his brother kingston.

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dread says:

October 19, 2012 at 1:21 am

Laryea is an indisciplined player period.Amankwaa Mireku should stop the senior player thing he talking about.There’s nothing like senior player.CK should discipline Laryea seriously.

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Devildog6773 says:

October 19, 2012 at 2:43 am

Folks, in my mind laryea is gone and we should try to focus on other big things that will surely come our way. Hearts of Oak is bigger than any player in the world, and not even Messi should be given the opportunity to run the team’s morale down. Far as I am concern, Bra laryea should be kept where he is, off the field and Hearts setup.

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stanley says:

October 20, 2012 at 8:59 am

Is’t because of the curse from his family at happy fm that is hunting bro Laryea or what.Somebody should help me hear.

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