Logarusic Future uncertain
Courtesy of futaa.com
Gor Mahia Coach Zdravko Logarusic admits he is unsure about his future after his contract talks with the Tusker Premier League (TPL) giants hit a snag.
In an interview with futaa.com before departing to Croatia for Christmas holidays, the award winning tactician said the two parties have not agreed on personal terms ahead of the 2013 season.
No deal yet
-I am leaving for Croatia and I have not made any agreement for the next season with Gor Mahia until now.
Asked if he’s been approached by any other club, Logarusic reserved his comments.
-No. I am just talking about Gor and I am leaving without any agreement with them, insisted Logarusic.
Revelation
Logarusic joined Gor in March 2012 turning around the fortunes of the club as he led them to a 27-game unbeaten record.
Under his watchful eye, K’ogalo won two trophies (Top Eight and FKF President’s Cup) and finished second on the log in the just concluded season.
Logarusic jetted-out of the country last evening (Sunday 25 November).
kama si wetu basi bye coach .but can this office read early signs we have avery tight games ahead of us if we wait until this loga arundi .nowhere we are going boby i know uv got something from this guy can u make use of it when we are waiting for EC u guyz also go for xmas basi habari tutapata jan tu .lets start now mapema kila team are waiting for us to be beaten then we cry so .do sit and wait firewax.also can EC move round for another sup tuzo pekee not enough .its ur turn sasa be chap chap EC.
Logarusic thanxs 4 your achievement and I wish a merry Xmas together with ur family.
ENDA KABISA NA USIANGALIE NYUMA, bye 4 good and all the best the maverick one.
And anybody else who want to leave GM the door is wide open, Hatumbelezi mtu yeyote.
“OGANGO TRAILER” this cannot be right, and now it is clear you are not a genuine KOGALO supporter. You cannot be and this is bad, how can the administrator block this guy? He is masquarading as a supporter when in real sense he is an enemy.Logarusic will be back whether Trailer and his ilk like it or not.Kwani mtu hawezi enda holiday?
Ni blunder kuwacha Logarusic aende. It is not easy to find a very good coach.
I wished Logarusic could stay in GM a little longer to assist GM win at least one continental trophy and assist in player selection and strategies for the year 2013.
Just like in any other employment – if the employer can’t afford your services then no matter how much he wants to keep you it’s not possible so I wont be surprised that GM cannot keep him…the decision to keep him is with EC and not the fans so may the office decide; after all it is then who draw the budget. Take for instance, if this gentleman (Logarusic) wants to be paid 1 million and the budget is for example 350k then can GM afford him? Food for the thought!
@ jathur gi ji, from ur obervation its true that some individuals are not Gor supporters in this blog.and with that I don’t think there is need of responding to negative criticism.
@Jathur gi ji & Nyakogalo stop being emotional and call a spade a spade and not a big spoon. Reason like @ Walter Alando Bwoga and get the chemistry right. It all starts and ends up with what kind of offer has been placed on the table.
And who told you that you the two of you masterkeering cry babies are more GM than othetrs. The days of idol worshipping ended in the last millennium , so please style up, open your minds ,stop being unrealistic and myopic in your thinking and reasoning.
GOR MAHIA can not afford this gentleman and the best is he ship out if he can not shape up and take what AR offered. Let Sir JBO handle the team within the budgeted amount.
Ogango Trailer,add some sense between your ears. You don’t reason at all. Go to the nearest mirror and have a good look at yourself!
By the way @ 7 OGANGO I will agree with your sentiments on this subject – some expectations are normally unrealistic. Here comes Logarusic…When he came to GM he negotiated for 250k, after one yr, GM has helped him build his profile and now people all over are able to spot him, including Efusi, Egypt, Sudan and the list is endless. If for he wanted like 50% increase then that could be better but now how will the club keep him if his heart is already out of the club? Again you never know – probably he wants to leave when his profile is still very high to get a greener pasture using his current cv so let him decide his fate…
Let us be realistic here and stop wasting time, energy and name calling on this issue you are not privy to. Matters of employment is left to HR and not consumers. If the HR cannot afford to keep a staff who has been approached by a competitor who is willing to better his/her package however much noise we the consumer make will not help much. Lets pray that the organ in GM which is responsible in hiring and firing will reason and hear the concern aired by the consumer and approach Log soberly after X-MASS
I think log wants something and GM also has an offer. Yet we do not know the dimention talks have taken so far. I’ll be sorry for both parties if it took the mentality of ‘i already have a club offering me 5 times what you’re giving me’. As fans lets quit the ‘aende’ arrogance and wait for any outcome and move on. Howeve Sir Bobby must refuse the uncouth influence of bad officials dictating line ups and recruiting con men into the team. Lastly , loga is not the begining and end of GM’s success lets not cry for him remember he’s fighting tooth and nail for his own salary and is leaving if he won’t get the ‘five times’. A source privy to office issues has it that the chair wishes to double the tech bench salary not just an individual’s but he’ll have none of it(loga)! Actually am seeing guys crying for one person as if he handled the team alone! If there are people willing to chip in let them do it to the entire tech bench not on the basis of who is most noisy and worshiped. Can’t we see the other tech bench members are tolerant and going about their negotiations decently and professionaly? This is because GM is heritage and lifestyle to them and they feel a responsibity to better the club for posterity. They understand its not purely a chovya niende pot! I urge the chair to implement an all inclusive increment void of euphoria and skin worship differentiations.
@8 Odhiambo.p.owuor you are another quack with nothing in between your two ears. Can blog supersports and get to know that EFUSI have already bagged this guy in the den with a god offer than what AR has suggested.
Problem with some of us is that you learning soccer politics on this blog.
FUNGUA MACHO and let GM plan for post-Logarusic era without too much undue financial pressure. This is business and a simple mathematics will tell you that Logarusic is unaffordable at the moment. COACHES COME AND GO but K’Ogalo will not evaporate.
Gor Mahia can afford Logarusic’s salary, even double Sir.Bob’s, and improve player’s terms. What the club cannot cope with is sustaining a largely corrupt, inefficient and bloated executive committee. Here are the facts and figures.
Income: Kshs.
1.Gate Collections ( not complete) 25,063,448.00
2.Tuzo Sponsorship(Officials who jeopardized deal should take responsibility) 18,000,000.00
3. TPL Sponsorship 2,500,000.00
4. TOP 8 Winners cash prize 1,000,000.00
5.TPL runners up cash prize 1,500,000.00
6. TPL participation award-all teams paid as per position approx 500,000.00
7. Top 8 participation fee 3 matches @ kshs.100k/match.4 EC to this agree is a joke 300,000.00
8. Branches fee (82 branches x 6,000/branch) Info from GMFC official website 492,000.00
9.Known Donations-Raila-500K,Kisia-200K,Kidero-200K 900,000.00
10. Harambee for coaches car 330,000.00
*Total Income 50,585,448.00
*Not included due to lack of info-1) Supersport payments, Merchandize/Tshirt replica sales, Nation jacket sales,CAF harambees, airtickets from PM, Chairman’s contribution though with the above figure I am doubting the myth the he single handedly finances GMFC.
Expenses- Mainly taken from G.Bwana’s Financial Explanation on facebook/ to the media even though incomplete and seemingly exaggerated. Remember GMFC has 26 players.
Gor’s Monthly Expenditure
1. Sponsorship =Kshs 1,232,000(Player’s salaries only) x 12 months = 14,784,000.00
2. Technical bench salaries = Ksh 235,000x 12 months = 2,820,000.00
3. Office administrator =Kshs50,000x 12 months = 600,000.00
4. NIC bus loan =Kshs 65,000 (Highly doubtful with all harambees by fans) x 12months = 780,000.00
5. Head Coach $3,000 (Ksh.250,000)-came in March x10 months = 2,500,000.00
Weekly expenditure for match preparation. Let give EC benefit of doubt and use full 52weeks/365 days
6.Transport allowance Ksh.8,300 perday x 365days = 3,029,500.00
7. Medicine =Kshs15,000 x 52 weeks =780,000.00
8. Water 3000 per day x 365days =1,095,000.00
9. Hire of city stadium Kshs 5,000 per dayx 365 days =1,825,000.00
10. Winning bonuses =Kshs 154,000 assume they won all their 30 league matches =4,620,000.00
11. Coach’s taxi 800 per day-for 30days every month for 10months. =240,000.00
Total Expenses = 33,073,500.00
Surplus-which is higher if omitted income e.g Supersport is taken in account =17,511,948.00
Are you convinced that the EC has used Kshs.17.5million to print tickets and hire GMFC security or is this amount mainly divided between the executive committee?
1.Remember our players don’t even have medical insurance.
2.By retaining Logarusic, motivating other members of the bench and players gate collections can easily hit 40m in 2013.
3.Remember the current bench wins trophies without the expensive residential training hence and with a lean squad hence saving the club these expenses.
4.Logarusic and co. will pay for their salaries through performance.
THE CHOICE IS YOURS AND MINE PAY LOGARUSIC, SIR BOB, BENCH AND PLAYERS WELL OR CONTINUE PAYING THE EC APPROX KSHS.1.5million per year each instead of each member of the EC contributing even kshs.20,000 per month towards the club.
Sources of info: Futaa.com,Michezo afrika,www.gormahiafc.co.ke etc.
I wish Gor the best and I’m fed up with preachers who change tunes because they can’t accept fate.if anguyo didn’t defend the goal post what could u be saying about ivo? Merry x-mass all bloggers let’s chat next season.
The gate collections we get are Gross. Take away 20% for the stadium, some percentage for FKF and the tean remains with a very small fraction. So all in all we need to seriously look for additional sponsores who will be immunne to their brands being portrayed negatively by rowdy fans clothed in got clours
Plz the EC members try and do ua bst to reach on asolution that will faver our hats as fans. Remember we are going4the intercontinental gam Plz the EC members try and do ua bst to reach on asolution that will faver our hats as fans. Remember we are going4the intercontinental games and we need a sharp coach like logarusic
Plz the EC members try and do ua bst to reach on asolution that will faver our hats as fans. Remember we are going4the intercontinental gam Plz the EC members try and do ua bst to reach on asolution that will faver our hats as fans. Remember we are llk going4the intercontinental games and we need a sharp coach like clogarusic
Let’s be moderate in our comments and not allow emotions to get the better of us. We ought to come up with ways of improving the club instead of accusations and counter accusations!!
Let’s be moderate in our comments and not allow emotions to get the better of us.
All observations presented here are good enough to help the Ec positively identify its strength and weak points.I think Ec should start scouting for a soft landing should Loga and any other player bolt out.Before April 2012 we didnt know any thing about him, thus I believe there is always a better option somewhere. Loga in his charasteristic is a person who caan cause acrisis when his star shines the brightest. Remember when came to GOR he was enroute to Ghana.
LET LOGA GO, REMEMBER WE COULD NOT EVEN AFFORD TO PAY FOR HIS APARTMENT AND BUY FOR HIM A CAR…. !!! WE CANNOT AFFORD HIS KSHS 500,000 PER MONTH , HE IS ASKING FOR.WHERE ARE THE CORPORATE SPONSORS ? ITS A PITY WE HAVE DELIBERATELY CHOSEN TO REMAIN A COMMUNITY CLUB FOREVER !!!!
The reason why GOR MAHIA fraternity has won know serious continental title for 3 decades,and worse, not improved its financial strength is because of following reasons:Siege mentality, Talking too much about the past, leaving in denial,quick to forget,blame games and lastly refusing to change with changes.Assuming we embraced changes that Leslie Okudo proposed in 1995 and take note, this is the year we last won the league, if am not wrong,we could have been far financially and things like paying the technical bench and players the best salary would not have been a challenge now,we are simply just reaping what we have sown for the last 3 decades.I guess this time we will make use of this opportunity to redeem ourselves.
Lets keep Logarusic, our key players including Jerim and at the same time professionalize the club. We must move forward if we want the best for this club. Sticking with community mentality yet we cannot contribute to it, instead only throw stones at it, in the name of being passionate does not help. Change is inevitable.
@ando2031 I cannot agree with you more. We talk too much about so many thing and do very little about them. Eg opening Mpesa account to support player, abuse EC for not heeding fans demands, dictating the lineup etc. Now the MPesa was launched, how many of the noise makers have contributed? I am almost certain that no one has.
On Loga, I would advice the EC to let him go. An employee whose heart is elsewhere is better let off. You may insist on keeping him, and leave to regret later. I am sure Sir Bobby, if given a free hand to manage the team can perform equally well. In any case he has been understudying Loga, coupled with his past experience, I do not see a vacuum at all.
For God and my club Kogallo
sofa set this time round am with u 100/ let him not to give us presure until tech bench mgomo baridi utanza tutdoo ?of which we are not ready.kama the offer he was given hataki we us fan mustn move on lets not sluck too much on one man wht about others .lets stop name calling here plse ,
Let Loga go with Jerry as well if he can get a better pay elsewhere. However, it could have been better if we can keep Loga for two seasons.
Gor Mahia is a big club with huge followings throughout the region and this will even attract better coaches from any part of the world.
If Loga goes, we would need a foreign coach with better pedigree in turning Gor Mahia to be the best club in the region and African continent.
Gor Mahia as a team must have a mission and vision with good core values that can bring discipline to the EC members, fans, players, technical team bench, sponsors etc. The club’s ethos will drive the business of team of winning trophies and making profit.
The success of the club can only be achieved by all stakeholders working together.
I still have concern with our EC members and it is time for the Chairman to reorganise EC members as most of them are big liabilities and eyesore to the team. Some members have been involved in fraudulent activities and sabotaging of the team’s effort.
God giveth and God taketh. God has taketh the Log. Now we move on as follows:
1.Sir Bobby takes command.
2.Tom Ogweno gets reinstated.
3.Jerry Jagoal sobbers down and drops his rage.
3.Strengthen the weak departments.
4.Drop or loan out the underperforming players.
5.EC mandates Albert Kosero (Sofaset Branch Kampala) to negotiate Ed Mubiru’s signing and we move on to glory.
@OGANGO TRAILER, Sir, are you posting under influence of any kind drugs?. Are you yourself sir? Just imagine, I can’t believe you. Annalyse how beautifully GORBIDDER has finally laid it down. Read it first before you respond cause I know how you are going to respond in the next moment. After, going through it Sir, do you still believe Loga should go because of payment?
If Loga was to depart for good, the best we can do is to be greatful that at least Bobby worked under him and must have picked something from him. Back on the pitch if one observed carefully, Bobby was always up giving instructions which I did not see Loga dispute. That in itself says a lot about mentorship. So if one is thinking that Gor is finished, I would encourage them to cheer up for there is no gap.However dew to the continental commitments, I would still desire that we get a foreign coach but only if Loga is not for sure coming back.Of great concern is that I look at some postings and the lines do not give any indication that the authors are Gor supporters instead I see an enemy implanted. My encouragement to the real k’ogalo family is “The best is yet to come omiyo remain steadfast and full of hope for that is what we stand for. God bless K’Ogalo family. Start saving early for next year’s matches.
Those who say sir bobby and ogweno should take over must be aware that this guys were there before loga came and we know which position we were, lets not be quick to forget.I still believe the best option is for Gor to retain the entire technical bench and playing unit and pay them well we should avoid running away from challenges.I am also wondering that there is know one who can organize Im a plate for gor like politicians do.
@Orito Bernard am not your a person of your calibre or rather counterpart ; and if you do practice drugs then the best thing to do is to blog with drug addicts like yourself. Issue pertaining to GM are always emotive for people with shallow minds who can not see yonder beyond what they are reading in black and white.
Take note that OGANGO TRAILER post are just his independent opinions and they will remain as such , but the juicy part of it wholesomely is that I will always hit the nail on the head and smoke out idol worshippers who can not blog without suffering from Ogango-phobia.
My friend I respond to people who post sensible , analytical and comprehensive but not unsubstantiated and un-audit accounts based on a generalized multiple-media platform. Those kind of post are meant to enlighten myopic thinkers like yourself and O.Trailer.
My friend revisit all the post above and differentiate facts with fiction. And you will know that in this blogpost we have boys and men.adults and children depending on their post.
Re -look again and read the following seasoned bloggers on there take on Logarusic;
1. Walter Alando Bwoga
2. Ochigah
3. KASSAM Mwavangano
4. Dan
5. Mboya Obendi
6. JAKOYO
7. Albert Kosero
8. MWAKIO
9. Barefoot Bandit.
And I will conclude that I don’t have time for any person be it the players, technical bench,EC , Fans or even bloggers like yourself who lack basic management skill to know that once an employee profile has sky – rocketed the same case applies to his monetary value. The best is to relieve and part ways peaceful otherwise he will become an enemy mole who job will be to rock the boat from inside through incitement and sabotage.
So if your IDOL LOGARUSIC is man enough let him tembea na YESU AMA SHETANI to his next destination where he will earn 500% salary increment. K’Ogalo will be alive with or without him. When Len Julian and six first eleven players were suspended during the Zamalek debacle GOR MAHIA survived, won the league and East¢ral club championship with crop of new players and coach. Who wants to go the door is open.
@gorbidder and @ando2031 you have hit the nail on the head brethren,its only a fool who expects to achieve a different result while doing the task the same way,what am saying is this, time is ripe for change we cannot run Gor the way it was being done 20 years ago.We gotta style up and change with the times,we have free Gor mahia from the clutches of a few individuals who do not have the interest of kogallo at heart.It is time to go the Leslie Okudo way,Gor has to transform from a community organization to a a company with shares floated on the NSC,so as to be able to raise cash to pay for proper talented players,and the likes of our coach.Truth be told we can afford the guy,its only that we are not so sure about the “trueness” of the accounts that we are being fed by the office.
God in heaven what a performance by Ed Lavatsa in Kenya’s match against RoSS. Something is not adding up with this lad. All his confidence is gone….yet when the Trailer comments he misunderstood and mistaken to be high…
Who is this man ogango trailer?Have you ever heard of the saying ”the longer the explanation, the bigger the lie”?please base your arguments with facts just like gor bidder has done it and not hear say.I know you are good at calling people names or rather underrating people.
SILENCE IS GOLDEN BWANA,you can’t be right when everyone else is wrong. And please don’t ‘mention God’s name in vain, He is not your age mate.
SHINDWE KABISA.
Odipo give it up ogango will tear you a part lol
My dear fellow bloggers, let’s be moderate. Everyone who has been in GM has made a contribution and I again some of them read all these insults some of us are posting here. That’s actually not the right way to go. Lavatsa is actually down now and lacks confidence now but at one time he did us proud. Let’s learn to appreciate the past and even it’s not good to directly tell these pple that they are useless.Its good to keep quite sometimes even if you know everything and suppose they change their minds and decide to stay at GM?. When they are at GM, they are friends and when they walk out they become enemies. I think this is not right but I do respect each and everyone’s opinion. May God Bless each and everyone of you and again I wish wonderful Christmas Holidays. Thanks all
HI ALL FANS PLSE we belong to one family plse dnt misread ogango badly can u understand wht he has mail if its had just jump over it and read other lines plse name calling hapana hapa we are just wasting time mwakio pray for new members here mybe its there 1 time on this blog .wish all xmas again ple take vote.
@jahkoremo its true mwakio used to pray for us and we would say amen always, that’s why I didn’t understand his take on some issues. I hope he plays his role on this blog as he used to, that is to guide us on way forward by his policies and prayers and we answer in the same breath without hatred or malice.
im hart.
LETS NOT BLUNDER A GAIN, GOR GETS MONEY AND DONT JOKE WITH THAT COACH, WE LOST JACK JONSON, WE ARE YET TO LEARN (MAXIMUM RESPECT TO LUGARUHZIC). TRY AND U WILL C RED.
i personally appriciate the wak done by entire team from LOGA upto real fans lets turn up next seasson because i can smell some 3cups SAYS NYAKWAR NYAKOMBIJA FROM LUCKY SUMMER