Liberty Professionals president Alhaji Sly Tetteh has dismissed as frivolous suggestions that he influences player selection in the senior national team.

Sly Tetteh was reacting to an allegation by former GFA vice chairman, Joseph Ade Coker that Sly Tetteh was part of a clique manipulating player selection following Ghana’s first round exit from the African Cup of Nations.

Ade Coker in Tuesday’s edition of the Africa Sports paper blamed the Black Stars exit on a group within the FA set up who ensured that their favourite players gained selection.

Five ex-liberty professionals’ players including, Michael Essien, Sulley Muntari, John Paintsil, Addoquaye Pappoe and Asamoah Gyan are currently regulars for the national side.

Alhaji Tetteh claims the presence of the players in the set-up is a testament to the quality player development program that has been instituted at the club.

“I find Mr. Coker’s comments not only provocative but also insulting to a reputation that I have built over several years of hard work especially when there is no element of truth in that view.

“I am particularly surprised because I would have expected Mr Coker as a self-proclaimed master of Ghana football to know a lot better than pass such careless comments.

“The facts of the matter remains that I have never had a say in who gets called into the national team and who does not,” Sly Tetteh said in a press statement.

The Liberty boss says Liberty Professionals have been building a team over the past years to achieve a model club.

“I have pumped my energies over the last decade into building a club considered a model, which has with careful planning has produced some of the country’s best players.”