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| Trouble brewing in Bakili Bullets,Trouble brewing in Bakili Bullets |
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Garry Chirwa,Garry Chirwa, 13 January 2004
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All is not rosy within the well-oiled Bakili Bullets Football Club in which the old guard is accusing the executive of giving new players special treatment to the extent of giving them thick rolls of cash amounting to K500,000.
One of the club’s senior players, who strictly spoke on condition of anonymity, claimed in an interview on Tuesday that most of the old players are frustrated with the club’s move to give the new players five-star treatment while giving a cold shoulder to the old players.
“We have information that the club has bought furniture for most of our new colleagues and to be specific the furniture was bought from SK Furnitures. We also have information that the team has given them huge amounts of between K250,000 and K500,000 ($4,716). Two of the new players have actually bought minibuses using the same money
“Now you should get me right, we are not against the club’s move to offer them all these things because the new players might have come up with their own conditions before putting pen to paper. But our argument here is why not level the playing field?” Queried one of the old players.
He added: “We are very disheartened because some of these players are not even better than some of the players they have found at the club. The morale has some how been affected because you do not expect somebody who has been given K500,000 to perform in the same way as someone who has been given only K15,000.”
The player said it is such acts that usually bring divisions in the team.
He also claimed that the only money that the old guard has received from the club is K15,000 each signing on fee for the new season.
However, Bullets’ chairman Hassam Jussab described the claims as a classic exaggeration.
“It is unfortunate that a few misguided players are saying that. There are indeed some players that have been offered a little money like Dick Malidadi and Fundi Akidu as compensation because they have resigned from their previous working places.
“Police and Admarc respectively could not continue to employ these players because they have left their teams and we had to give them a little something as compesation,” said Jussab.
The Bullets chair also said others like Mapopa Musukwa and Chikumbutso Kanyenda were given some money to pay for their higher education courses.
“Mapopa did not make it a secret that he would join a club that would pay for his education...it was a condition that we had to meet and I don’t see why a few players are trying to make a fuss out of that,” said Jussab
He assured that the executive would meet the players to clear the air.
Bullets’ remaining old-guard include Swadick Sanudi, Petrus Mwalweni, Joseph Gatros, Fischer Kondowe, Rahim Ishmail, Robert Ng’ambi, James Chilapondwa, Grant Lungu and Ganizani Malunga while some of the new players are Akidu, Kanyenda, Musukwa, Malidadi, Kachibowo Malunga, Trust Lunda, Maupo Msowoya, Grey Nyirenda, Emmanuel Chipatala, Jimmy Zakazaka and Wisdom Mhango. ,
All is not rosy within the well-oiled Bakili Bullets Football Club in which the old guard is accusing the executive of giving new players special treatment to the extent of giving them thick rolls of cash amounting to K500,000.
One of the club’s senior players, who strictly spoke on condition of anonymity, claimed in an interview on Tuesday that most of the old players are frustrated with the club’s move to give the new players five-star treatment while giving a cold shoulder to the old players.
“We have information that the club has bought furniture for most of our new colleagues and to be specific the furniture was bought from SK Furnitures. We also have information that the team has given them huge amounts of between K250,000 and K500,000 ($4,716). Two of the new players have actually bought minibuses using the same money
“Now you should get me right, we are not against the club’s move to offer them all these things because the new players might have come up with their own conditions before putting pen to paper. But our argument here is why not level the playing field?” Queried one of the old players.
He added: “We are very disheartened because some of these players are not even better than some of the players they have found at the club. The morale has some how been affected because you do not expect somebody who has been given K500,000 to perform in the same way as someone who has been given only K15,000.”
The player said it is such acts that usually bring divisions in the team.
He also claimed that the only money that the old guard has received from the club is K15,000 each signing on fee for the new season.
However, Bullets’ chairman Hassam Jussab described the claims as a classic exaggeration.
“It is unfortunate that a few misguided players are saying that. There are indeed some players that have been offered a little money like Dick Malidadi and Fundi Akidu as compensation because they have resigned from their previous working places.
“Police and Admarc respectively could not continue to employ these players because they have left their teams and we had to give them a little something as compesation,” said Jussab.
The Bullets chair also said others like Mapopa Musukwa and Chikumbutso Kanyenda were given some money to pay for their higher education courses.
“Mapopa did not make it a secret that he would join a club that would pay for his education...it was a condition that we had to meet and I don’t see why a few players are trying to make a fuss out of that,” said Jussab
He assured that the executive would meet the players to clear the air.
Bullets’ remaining old-guard include Swadick Sanudi, Petrus Mwalweni, Joseph Gatros, Fischer Kondowe, Rahim Ishmail, Robert Ng’ambi, James Chilapondwa, Grant Lungu and Ganizani Malunga while some of the new players are Akidu, Kanyenda, Musukwa, Malidadi, Kachibowo Malunga, Trust Lunda, Maupo Msowoya, Grey Nyirenda, Emmanuel Chipatala, Jimmy Zakazaka and Wisdom Mhango. |
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