Gor Mahia players on strike
Yet again Kogalo players are on strike due to unpaid salaries.
Additional reporting from goal.com
With just two days before they take on Nigerian champions Lobi Stars, K’Ogalo have threatened to down tools over salaryGor Mahia players have now vowed to skip their Caf Champions League match against Lobi Stars of Nigeria on Sunday.
The players, who have always staged such go slows ahead of Kenyan Premier League matches, have now promised to stage a huge strike that will awake the office. “We might skip the match and give them a walkover. This is becoming too much. Can you imagine staying without salary and they want you to perform on the pitch?” a top player, who sought anonymity told Goal.com
Goal also understands that the players were summoned to meet club chairman Ambrose Rachier after their training session on Thursday at the Camp Toyoyo Stadium but nothing tangible came out of the meeting.When reached for comment, Gor Mahia CEO Omondi Aduda admitted that the club was yet to pay the players and that the issue was being sorted out. We are aware of that and it is not a story to write about.
.”We want positive coverage now that we are having a huge match coming up and those players must understand that we are looking for money to pay them and should be patient and must also remain focused for the match on Sunday.”Aduda also admitted that they are yet to receive an official note from their rivals on when they are arriving in the country for the fixture. “They are yet to talk to us, so we wait, maybe they want to sneak in but we are ready to take them on.”
Nonsense ! I have the assurance that this issues will be sorted by today latest 2pm though I must admit we was raised this issue 2 months ago but as usual, does anybody ever listen ?
Meanwhile our opponents arrive today 9pm via Ethiopia airlines, apparently they do not want to be affected by the high altitude Nairobi weather.
As for fans, let us jaza stadium so that our players can get some much needed match winning bonuses tomorrow.
How do you play and win on empty stomachs?
It’s utterly INHUMAN for the great and hugely talented players to be treated like slaves.
Play and win only for salaries to be perennially delayed.
It is high time the Gor Mahia technical bench and players are treated with dignity as human beings..
Surely ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
How comes this oldman(Rachier) is not ashamed of himself when the club that he manages is ever mentioned for non payment of player salaries. Why can’t he just resign honourable and give somebody else a chance to try where he has failed terribly. Gor players should stand their ground until paid.Nobody can work on an empty stomach.
Looking for what money? SP paid GM sponsorship upfront to Dec18. @jasego u’ve been training with the team all along, were’nt u aware of this? Can’t you use your togolese transfer monies to sort this crisis with a written legal undertaking for a refund.
That Mugabe STILL can’t pay players’ salaries even after being advanced SP sponsorship upto Dec18, that he has saddled GM with a 129m tax fine as a legacy of his +10 year tenure is unacceptable but MTADO! GM should’ve bagged another CAF title by now.
Sportpesa should start paying players salaries directly.
Will we even travel to Nigeria if that is the situation? Something is terribly wrong
Jasego is also in ” handshake” with the powers now. Amenyamaza Kabisa
Ambrose Rachier long reached his leadership menopause so many years ago and all these sheninigans we are confronted with in the media have now become the norm rather than an exception .
Excuses have been given that we should be very worried casting away AR because of his deep pockets , this is a fallacy that if contextualisedwill bare out the fact that Gor loses much much more in latent potential revenue compared to whatever AR may chip in from his “Private Coffers” , it is akin to somebody stealing 1000 million from NYS and then donating 15million in harambees amidst ululations and promises of support for his 20whatever quest .
From time to time , we are encouraged to throw missiles at the Nyangis for how they muddy our brand , but the reality is the Nyangis are just but symptons of a rotten head , a head that believes that a bare minimum
like winning the league is a favour .
Having said that , am convinced that the perpetual confusion we witness in Gor are intentionally manufactured to keep as in eternal debates while behind closed doors feasting goes on , to the exclusion of the Nyangis and the players , Now that the players are crying and Nyangi is quiet , me thinks a few bones have been thrown her way .
Finally to Aduda , if you want positive coverage , you have to create it and to the players , if you deliberately lose the match because of a slight delay of salaries , what will you have gained ? , the salary will eventually be paid , but by then you would have knocked yourself out of a platform of exposure that not even your combined salaries can buy , please tamper your anger with common sense .
Bloggers do not vilify those who give blood, sweat and tears for beloved K’Ogalo like myself. I knew of the salary issues but my main aim in leaving my official workstation by taking a short sabbatical (luckily am allowed to do that by my title and job designation) and come camp and train with the team for a week is not short of Philanthropy on my side. I ensure the players have all they need in terms of energy booster drinks..electrolyte replenishing drinks and special injury kits all imported at my cost that i don’t ask EC to refund. I also work with Oktay to draw up winning strategies whose results were already beginning to show as Zico is of no big use to the head coach at all. I long got tired of bashing AR here and in person for he seems immune to any good advise one would wish to give him. Aduda on his part is ever arrogant coupled with a condenscending attitude towards players plight. Salary delays to them is very normal as they will eventually pay so players should be grateful. What more am i to do in such circumstances? I talked down Captain Shakava and we are calming players down trying to boost morale and execute our game plan for tomorrow. Pray we succeed. @Oduor12 and Jamriambo am doing all i can even though it is not my responsibility. Stress i undergo for the love of this team is not easy, it takes real Heart…
Well put.
But those EC potato growers, at some point must go!
The time is ticking!
But the players have wives & children not to mention extended family. How are they surviving for the 1/2 month without pay! Players can’t focus in these circumstances! There was money for a mere friendly (a holiday trip) but none for CAF (to go to work).
As much as players should be paid their dues and salaries as soon as possible, I do not advocate for any form of boycot or strike or go slow or civic disobedience. Is Gor Mahia really having a strong team captain like Jerry Jagoal that can encourage players that playing football is all about their careers and lives at this high octave level in the continental competition where big foreign clubs are looking for discipline players but not trade unionists or trouble shooters.
Delayed salaries payments used to happen even in the past years but due to astute leadership and captainship of Jerry Jagoal the matter was never highlighted. A team like Gor Mahia will always have such challenges as long as we do not professionalize the club and adopt a sustainable business financial model that will generate adequate income to run the affairs of the club.
The implications of the professionism calls for more accountability, good corporate governance and openness in managing the affairs of the club but not the current set up of inept, clueless and ineffective elected leadership which are more in resemblance of political and trade union officials.
Even if Rachier and the entire executive office resigns today, under the current set up of the club; the big elephant is in the house exemplified by players’ threats of strikes and boycotts will still be permanent feature in the club.
I blame Rachier and his entire inept/clueless EC officials for not changing the fortunes of the club and turning our great club into professional outfit by adopting a business models with more transparency and accountability. I do not think that any of these elected official are driven by the good course of achieving a financial sustainability of the club as most of them are only interested in eating and looting the meager resources of the club. These greedy officials are not focusing on the welfare of players but on personal interests which are first priorities.
I know Ambrose Rachier can effect the desired changes he was mandated by members of the club during the last AGM but I do not think that the eating officials are interested in making changes that will make the club financials sustainable. We keep on repeating mistakes of blame games, name calling like Mugabe, resignation, players strikes, etc but we do not address the sustainable financial model of making the club to compete with the best team in Africa; Gor Mahia will continue to have the same problem year in year out with the AGM and useless elections.
Last mid week match, Nyangi and her ilks hired goons from Kibera to shout at the coach Zico and Rachier but this did not happen as Gor Mahia won. Much as I did not want Zico as the head coach such act of hooliganisms being orchestrated by inept Nyangi and SG against the coach or chairman are unwarranted and this could have gone against the two officials as other genuine fans were ready to protect the club from these goons. If elected club officials can hire goons by giving them changaa and bhangi instead of channeling such money to take care of the welfare of players but instead to cause havoc in the team such officials should be thrown out of the club administration as soon as yesterday.
Gor Mahia management is shameless and a big embarrassment. Why don’t we ever hear of “EC are on a go-slow because they have not received their allowances”? With such unending disorganization and crises, was there any point in exposing the brand to the world by playing Everton? A team that showcases before the entire globe should have some measure of internal stability financially and administratively. It is so embarrassing to me personally that the global audience that watched Gor Mahia at Goodison Park is now reading such disdainful stuff…..and such negative publicity travels like bush fire!
My team has a crucial game tomorrow, yet I am left in limbo as to whether our boys will show up or not. This is a time when I should be mulling on the probable line up.
Jamigori please prepare to be Gor Mahia chairman while Ja’Asego runs the Organizing Secretary’s docket. That is the only way we can put our house in order.
And how does this reflect on the leadership abilities of the club patron who also aspires to lead the country. Is’nt this an omen that strikes & opaque leadership will be transfered from club to country level. Status his club/counties show his capacity.
Osiepa, I have learned over time that that position of I-don’t-know club patron in Gor Mahia is the most ceremonial of all ceremonial positions.
Come to think about it…..the reason why we are where we are some 50 years on is because we inculcated the culture of running the club activities on handouts. That is the reason why we don’t wince when we walk around in broad daylight with begging bowls. We believe that it is more blessed to receive handouts than to work hard and generate our own income. It is on this note that I would strongly advise the ‘patron’ to keep a tight lid on whatever is left of his coffers. If we don’t have the brains of running Gor Mahia professionally……if we have not realized that as an employer in the sports industry we are supposed to have a business mind that guarantees a steady income then we should ship out and let competent leaders like Jamigori and Ja’Asego to show us the way.
Are you mow agreeing with me that the older Kenyans leaders born during or right after colonial days have the mentality that only good things come from the mkoloni and all we (Kenyans) can do for ourselves is pass a bowl either within us or even overseas saying saidia masikini
Bloggers i have tried holding it in but i can’t. This is the problem in GM as far as salaries are concerned.
1. Cartels and brokers run GM mafia style thereby bringing nondescript free transfer Bosman players who they then collude with in deals to add “mark up” to their salaries which they split every pay cheque time. A player is said to earn 120,000 on contract deposited to SportPesa who use them to calculate team wage bill while in essence that player only receives 80k so 40k has it’s owners. It is why Jasego’s expensive and non-corruptible signings are Never that welcome on board i suffer to get approval to bring them as good as they always turn out.
2. Owing to corruption 1 above it therefore follows that GM EC hierarchy Cannot allow SportPesa to pay players salaries directly for how will they receive their mark ups if the whole amount goes to a player and he reneges on the deal.
3. Players who show they are uncomfortable sharing their hard earned sweat after initially agreeing are then sidelined by their sponsors and frustrated into asking for release letters like Joachim Oluoch case now who fell out with the official who signed him.
N/B-This behavior is rampant and was perfected during the era of George Bwana SG that is why peope like Zico who some shout should coach GM cannot as they are part and parcel of this dealings…
Weche Gor moko ojoga matek and are like a cancer that make us mediocre no matter how big we wish to view ourselves as a club…
Jasego you are part of those cartels. For how can you not be yet your main preoccupation is buying n selling of players like a cattle trader at Akala market?
It is the rapport you enjoy with Rachier that enables you to keep ‘bringing’ players to Gor.
Un e oyiyo machamo gor to kudho!!
@Akira you must follow due protocol in addressing Gor Stalwarts. I am a Fifa Licensed professionnaire with offices in Europe what can selling players to GM give me? My love for the team see’s me bring and even pay some signing fees just for Gor to have quality signings. Commissions exempted that officials trade-in at GM are not my thing omera. Chairman Must Rapport well with me as he knows the people without whom GM can return to the 1998-2010 period very fast. Also know that even Presidents have “Mr Fix-its”. How else do you think that a club that cannot pay local players even with sponsorship money has been able to sign the Baba Kizito’s…Aucho’s…Sibomana’s..Nizigiyimama’s…Batambuze’s…Walusimbi’s…Kagere’s and Tuyisenge’s? It’s because kuna shareholders wazito whom if they exit the club remains a name..Respect man wee bayo koda wach kamano…
That answers my question as to why these officials aren’t tired of running a club that is perennially broke and is not making any profit.
Surely, bearing all the headache at Gor must be having it’s hidden benefits
@jamigori, really??? At I the eating officials cannot allow AR to effect changes in GM, the dude has been there longer than any official, He knows his way around GM “manenos’ more than us fans.For almost a decade no structural change in GM.They say a bad leader ensures that every is all dependent of him, that’s why some misguided fans like jakoyo tend to worship the dude.Suppose the dude leaves GM, what structural legacy would he be leaving, NOTHING. THE EASIEST THAT EVEN AKINA MAMAS CHAMA CAN DO ,BUY A PIECE OF LAND FOR TRAINING AMESHINDWA ,HE PREFERS PAYING 5 OR 7 THAU PER TRAINING SEASON AT TOYOYO WHERE A CERTAIN PERCENTAGE IS HIS & SOME OFFICIALS.BYTHEWAY DOES HE STILL PRACTICE LAW – I HIGHLY DOUBT.PESA YA HARAKA HAPA GM.
@jamigori, really??? At I the eating officials cannot allow AR to effect changes in GM, the dude has been there longer than any official, He knows his way around GM “manenos’ more than us fans.For almost a decade no structural change in GM.They say a bad leader ensures that every is all dependent of him, that’s why some misguided fans like jakoyo tend to worship the dude.Suppose the dude leaves GM, what structural legacy would he be leaving, NOTHING. THE EASIEST THAT EVEN AKINA MAMAS CHAMA CAN DO ,BUY A PIECE OF LAND FOR TRAINING AMESHINDWA ,HE PREFERS PAYING 5 OR 7 THAU PER TRAINING SEASON AT TOYOYO WHERE A CERTAIN PERCENTAGE IS HIS & SOME OFFICIALS.BYTHEWAY DOES HE STILL PRACTICE LAW – I HIGHLY DOUBT.PESA YA HARAKA HAPA GM.
How can we get a copy of Gor Mahia constitution, we start from there
Nahatutacheza mpaka tulipwe fedha zetu. If you are going to pay a unqualified Mzungu hundreds of thousands of shillings, you will have to pay us else no more playing
Benson Disi. KK Homeboys 3 – 0 Efusi
Disi or Ingo get lost from this site and concentrate on Ingwe.
Benson Disi. KK Homeboys 3 – 0 Efusi.
Therefore concentrate on how to reconstruct the Den.
I sympathise with the players but I request them not to go on strike. Strike has both positive and negative effects.
@Jagem Oremo and @Jasego, let the Gor Mahia players do what they want and deem fit for their careers and lives. Playing football is an individual choice and it is about their lives and career. There is no foreign valuable football team that can buy or engage such players of Gor Mahia who are behaving like trade unionists and ringleaders. Foreign teams will do background checks and personality due diligence on individual players that have attracted their attention. The only teams that can consider our local players are poor football clubs in the Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa.
As much as I support prompt payment of salaries and wages, players too should be taken to tasks just like the officials. If a player boycot training, the amount need to be deducted from the total pay back to the club and such amounts should be computed in commensurate or on prorata basis with total salary and wages. Players too must be made to pay back to the club for the hours and days lost in rendering the service to the club.
The club also should pay interest to the players on the outstanding pay to the players. These two actions will make all parties to fulfill on their promises and become committed to the one course.
I as Gor Mahia long term fan, I do not care whether they stage a strike or boycott or play as the long term benefits accrue to them as players. Nearly all clubs in kenya have the same problem of delayed payment of salaries and wages but we do not hear such threats. Such delayed salaries are eventually paid but we do not hear players being penalized for skipping the training. The amounts of money due to boycotting and striking should also be deducted from their salaries and wages in lieu of days and hours missed for training or rendering the services to the club.