Dan Oketch to install Barcelona model at Gor Mahia
Dan Oketch, an aspirant for the Charman position at Kogalo, is promising to revolutionize the financial situation at Gor Mahia
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An aspirant for Gor Mahia’s chairmanship in elections slated for December 11, has promised to institute far reaching changes that will be beneficial to the club in the event that he wins.
Dan Oketch, has said that part of the measures would be to transform Gor Mahia to adopt the FC Barcelona model.
In an interview with Nation Sport, Oketch who has heightened his campaign in the wake of a fundraiser dinner at a city hotel at the weekend that targeted corporates and business community said: “I have a good grasp of what is required to move Gor Mahia from the relative success we have enjoyed locally to a state of significance within the football fraternity in the continent. Our ultimate goal is to conquer Africa on the football front.”
“Our club has goodwill and fan base which is unmatched in the region. We have a ready market. Gor Mahia is a goldmine which is ready to explode. This is a virgin enterprise that can grow if well-handled but lack of visionary leaders, lack of accountability, poor handling of gate collection has affected the club. I want to change and turn the club to a business oriented club in the model of Barcelona with passionate fan base,” he said.
Oketch also said that he will ensure the club has its own stadium that will give them 100 per cent control over match day revenue, stadium naming rights, pitch side branding and hiring out the facility to other users to generate revenue and also set up different levels of youth structures beginning with the under-15 side.
Oketch will face off with incumbent Ambrose Rachier and former club secretary general Chris Omondi in the elections.
How I wish Oketch cold insist on us having a modern progressve constitution before elections
New ideas are always welcome. To me this is what progress is about. However, I think that when they are general then it becomes very difficult to see the road map, Please help us to see this. I say this drawing the lessons from the Policians who would come around and tell the would be electorates how they will build bridges, make modern roads, bring laptops but not say exactly how this would happen.I may come from an ignorant position of not knowing the Barcelona model, It is for the same rason that I kindly ask to be taken through the Model and how it will work in our context. Please do the same for tje Stadium especially the fuding aspect because it will definately be through gate collections/
Just a point of clarification I meant to say” the funding will definately not be coming from the gate collections’ the last line.
What does this guy mean by Barcelona model? This is the problem with corporate people. They have so many meaningless buzzwords when folding sleeves and getting down to the work gets things done.