The reason why an African powerhouse got cold feet about hiring an ex-Bafana Bafana boss has reportedly been revealed.
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2004 Africa Cup of Nations Tunisia have been on the hunt for a new head coach for several months. In 2024, the north African giants had a total of four head coaches, but in an attempt to have more stability, the Carthage Eagles are looking for a permanent successor to Kais Yaakoubi.
The flux within the Tunisian Football Federation (FTF) has not aided their attempts to hire a new manager as a FIFA appointed Normalization Committee is currently running football within the country.
Despite the fluctuation within the FTF, they came extremely close to hiring a new manager that would oversee the remainder of their 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers and that man was poised to be Carlos Queiroz.
The Portuguese is well versed on the African continent having coached the likes of South Africa and Egypt, and was seemingly on the verge of leading yet another nation, but ultimately the chiefs in Tunis, according to AfrikFoot, opted against and it is because of the 71-year-old's salary demands.
The same report claims that Queiroz arrived in Tunisia and met with the president of the FTF, Kamel Idir, and the head of ministry of sports, Sadok Mourali, with all three men agreeing that the ex-Real Madrid boss would become their next head coach, but the Tunisian officials made a last-minute u-turn after learning about his salary demands.
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It is alleged that he demanded an annual salary of €1.5 million (R28.9 million) per year for him and his two assistants. The president of Tunisia summoned Mourali and told him that Queiroz's demands were too absurd and that they can look elsewhere.
