Reports earlier emerged that Amuneke was fired from the club but the former Nigerian player has now claimed that he stepped down himself.

Pay cut

According to the 47-year-old, he stepped down after the club told him to take a pay cut.

“The club sponsors had issues with their finances and wanted to slash my salary,” Amuneke said in a phone call with Godwin Enakhena on the journalist’s Top Sport programme on Top Radio, Lagos on Wednesday, March 21.

“I decided to leave because I’m not even sure they will be able to keep paying my salaries.”

Amuneke took over at Al-Khartoum in November 2017 when he was appointed to replace Ghanaian coach Kwesi Appiah, who resigned following his appointment as the new manager of the Black Stars of Ghana.

Al-Khartoum were sixth in the Sudan Premier League with 46 points when Amuneke took over in November 2017.

They eventually finished fifth.

Amuneke leaves the club in fourth place in the 2018 season with 11 points from eight games.

Amuneke's coaching career

Al-Khartoum was Amuneke’s fifth coaching job since he completed his coaching courses in Europe in 2008 and excluding his post as the assistant head coach at Saudi Arabian side Al-Hazm F.C.

He managed Julius Berger and Ocean Boys before he was appointed coach of Nigeria’s U-17 national team, the Golden Eaglets.

It was with his Golden Eaglets he won the first and only trophy of his coaching career so far leading Nigeria to win the .

He was later promoted to the U-21 but failed to qualify for the 2017 U-20 Africa Cup of Nations in Zambia.