Management and board of directors go and come at Asante Kotoko but one constant factor at the club has been the rate at which they sign players almost every transfer window.

The club has the penchant of signing wholesale players and letting a lot too almost every season.

But former forward Michael Osei aka Ember Power has urged the club to set up an academy and stop the wholesale changes they do every transfer window since they waste a lot of money.

According to Osei, the club should return to the days of Herbert Mensah and Ernst Midendorp where they drafted a lot of players into the main squad from the Kotoko junior teams.

”One thing we should have done a long time ago is the academy. Look round the world, the most successful clubs have a vibrant academy. Let’s try and remember Herbert Mensah and coach Ernst Middendorp era where they picked Osei Kwame, Michael Ofosu Appiah (CID), Kwadwo Poku, Akwaffo, etc. They were playing for the Kotoko U17 and the U20. They quickly replaced us,” Osei told Hello FM in an interview.

”It’s the number one policy Kotoko should embark on. Kotoko should start doing it.

”I’m not saying Kotoko shouldn’t buy big players, even TP Mazembe do it although they have an academy.

”We also can sell some of them and not depend on the supporters always. Imagine what the club will get if we sell at least three players for 500, 000 dollars every year.

”It’s the number one priority Kotoko should do now.” he added.