Kwesi Nyantakyi insists coach Avram Grants extensive stay outside the country is by permission from the Ghana FA.

The Israeli trainer has been widely criticized for his failure to stay in the country to monitor local talents.

Grant has even been described as a lazy coach for choosing to remain at his European base under the guise of monitoring players abroad and only flying into the country for matches.

But his employers, the GFA, say the coachs extensive time spent abroad than in the country is by authorization.

"He [Avram Grant] is the head coach of the Black Stars and is also to assist in the technical directionof all the national teams, in other words as a technical director for the FA, GFA boss Kwesi Nyantakyi said.

"His duties span within and outside the jurisdiction of Ghana and always travel with the permission of the GFA."

Avram Grant has spent more time abroad than in Ghana since taking up the job as head coach of the Black Stars in December 2014.

With the Black Stars team dominated by foreign-based players, coaches always have an excuse to spend most of their time outside the country as against monitoring talents coming through from the local scene in pursuit of results.