Executive Council member of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Randy Abbey has admitted that they failed as a search committee when they recommended Milovan Rajevac as the Black Stars coach for the second time after the sacking of C.K Akonnor.

According to Mr. Abbey they failed since Rajevac was sacked just five months into the Black Stars job but adds that they were time constrained as a committee as they had just 48 hours to find a replacement for C.K Akonnor.

Former Ghana captain C.K Akonnor was appointed Ghana coach in January 2020 but was sacked in September 2021 after a 1-0 defeat to South Africa in the 2022 Qatar World Cup qualifiers.

After his sacking, the GFA constituted a three member panel which Randy Abbey was a member to find a replacement for C.K Akonnor as Black Stars coach within 72 hours.

According to Randy Abbey, their first choice for the vacant Ghana job was former Black Stars assistant coach Herve Renard who was assistant to Claude Leroy when he was in charge of Ghana in 2008.

He says that the Frenchman turned down the Ghana job as he wanted to qualify Saudi Arabia to the World Cup and was a lofty $80,000 salary which they wanted to negotiate downwards.

The Frenchman who has twice won the AFCON for Zambia and Ivory Coast when they faced Ghana in the finals in 2015 was not ready to vacate his lucrative post in Saudi Arabia for the Ghana job.

"I always say people don't know what went into the decision to reappoint Milovan Rajevac as the head coach of the Black Stars," Abbey, a member of the committee that settled on Rajevac, said on Accra-based Original FM.

"The Ghana Football Association [GFA] gave us 48 hours to settle on a new coach for the team and we decided that we have to go in for someone who understands the culture of the country.

"Hervé Renard was our first choice but when we contacted him, he was not ready to leave his work with the Saudi Arabia team because he told us he wants to lead the side to qualify for the 2022 World Cup. Again, his monthly was a problem because he was on an $80,000 but we were still ready to negotiate with him.

"Quickly, we had to engage Milovan Rajevac because of his pedigree and what he has done with the national team.

"He accepted the challenge and came but the fact that he failed means we the committee that brought him did not do a good job," he added.