The the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) have announced a shock decision on their new head coach.
The NFF announced earlier this week that they had reached an agreement with Bruno Labbadia to become the new head coach.
However, the federation have now announced that the agreement has fallen through due to the tax laws in Germany.
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"We have been on the tax issue for the past three days, and I told him clearly that there was no way the NFF will agree to offset the concomitant tax percentage on his salary that will be demanded by German tax authorities," NFF president Ibrahim Gusau said in an official statement.
"It is not possible for us to shoulder the responsibility of shelling out another money, between 32% to 40% of his salary, after paying the agreed monthly wage.
"The NFF and Mr. Labbadia reached an agreement in principle before we made the announcement that he would become the head coach of the Super Eagles.
"The tax details were never part of our discussions, and he had personally agreed to all terms before the tax issue came up.
"We were doing our best to be flexible in the discussions but he was adamant that the NFF had to pay the full tax amount as well. We simply cannot do that."
NFF technical director Augustine Eguavoen will take charge of the team for next week's 2026 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers against Benin and Rwanda.