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Managing Editor of the Insight Newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr has called on Ghanaians to partly lay the blame for the collapse of the Ghana League at the doorstep of radio presenters, especially sports presenters in the country.

The veteran Journalist, speaking on Adom FM on Thursday said he is laying the blaming on the sports presenters mainly because they promote foreign leagues at the expense of the local league on a daily basis.

“Ghana's presenters are part of the problem…all the radio/television stations are always talking about Chelsea, Barcelona, Manchester etc, by so doing they are helping people build interest in it…so they don’t help,” Kwesi Pratt said.

According to him, the presenters have developed what he called ‘inferiority complex’ to such an extent that they believe they have to talk about these foreign leagues to be accepted in society.

“How do you have this Manchester United mentality and believe in local production and hope to develop Ghana league…?,” he quizzed.

The veteran journalist also has difficulty comprehending why the Ghana Football Association (GFA) sacked local coach, Kwesi Appiah and brought in a foreigner, Avram Grant.

“…People were happy with the selection of Avram Grant as coach because he once coached Chelsea and because he is from Chelsea, they think of him as a god who cannot sin…,” he added.

To him, Ghana football has not benefitted from the contract the GFA signed with the Israeli trainer as he has neither achieved success with the Black Stars nor helped in training the local coaches in Ghana.

“We have completely collapsed the local league….Ghana is wasting money on Avram Grant and we are not getting any profit from it,” he said.

On the players selected for the national teams, especially the senior national team Black Stars, Kwesi Pratt said he would prefer Ghana parading a home-grown and based team and losing rather than presenting hybrid Ghanaian players and losing.

“Let’s form truly national Ghanaian team, let a local coach manage them, let them go and play and lose, I would be happy than have the foreigners playing and lose…,” he said.

To him, it is time for Ghana to start grooming local players to rise to fame like former Black Stars players Aggrey Fynn, Osei Kofi and others.