Michael Essien recalls attempts to create rift between him and Stephen Appiah in Black Stars camp

Pale Ghana midfielder Michael Essien has unfolded about his time with the Sunless Stars, revealing how some avid gamers tried to make tension between him and aged captain Stephen Appiah.

Talking in an interview with Sporty FMEssien recalled how he handled such eventualities in a team ambiance over and over plagued by stories of cliques and divisions.

“After I joined the Sunless Stars, I had that with Tornado (Stephen Appiah). He became our captain, nonetheless other folk started all these rumours about him and me. But we would name every completely different on the phone to tackle it,” he acknowledged.

Essien further explained how some avid gamers tried to make misunderstandings between him and Appiah, despite their exact relationship.

“We had the identical guys who would focus on within the inspire of us. These same guys would focus on within the inspire of me after which pace to Stephen and shriek the identical thing. But I’d dazzling catch the phone and salvage in contact with him, and he would also scream me that’s the identical thing they came to scream him,” he recounted.

No topic these challenges, Essien holds no grudges over his time with the national team and believes exterior influences, in particular from followers, over and over contribute to divisions sooner or later of the squad.

“There’ll not be this sort of thing as a bitterness in me, nonetheless each person appears to be like to be completely different, and generally lots of it comes from the followers. The manner they focus on in regards to the avid gamers, starting rumours about rifts within the squad. This will get into the heads of the avid gamers, which is now not moral,” he added.