Wusum Stars Football Club has parted ways with their former player Abdul Rahman Turay for the second time after he has been relieved as head coach of the club on Monday, 9th January 2023 following a poor start in the 2022/23 campaign.

Turay’s dismissal as a trainer of the Northeast region’s only male top-tier club came a few hours after Wusum Stars FC suffered a 4-0 home defeat against second-placed-side Mighty Blackpool, even though he was not in the dugout facing a two-match suspension from the Premier League Board.

According to NewsFeed Sierra Leone Abdul Rahman Turay who recently served as deputy assistant coach of the Leone Stars ‘B’ during the CHAN qualifier described his dismissal as shocking.

“As a coach, you must expect hiring and firing when your team is down, but the decision is a surprise to me because I think there should be an ultimatum first before this, we are not the only team that is struggling and eight of us are sharing similar points” he disclosed.

He added that the major challenge of the club which led to their slow start is a striker after Sulaiman S. Kargbo had joined East End Lions

“I requested a striker and even presented two to the management but they couldn’t afford anyone, however just after the match yesterday the club completed the signing of a striker and I would have moved away from relegation with a win in the next match” Turay asserted.

Abdul Rahman Turay achieved several successes with the club in the last eight years winning the Ernest Bai Koroma Trophy three times in 2015, 2017, and 2018 respectively, earning them a return to the country’s top-tier league after nine years of absence and helping the team to finish the third position in the previous 2021/22 season vows to give his support to the club until he received a right offer.

“My love for Wusum Stars is unmeasurable, I played for the club and it will always remain my club, meanwhile I will be giving my assistance to the team until there is a right offer” he concluded.