Gor Mahia plan for next season
Courtesy of supersport.com
Gor Mahia have laid out ambitious plans in preparation for next season as coach Zradvko Logarusic seeks to bolster the team with high profile signings in the transfer window.
Supersport.com has learnt that some of the players Logarusic intends to bring onboard include Tusker’s duo of Joseph Shikokoti and impressive midfielder Peter Opiyo while also lining up young mercurial Thika United Francis Kahata and KCB’s hit man Paul Mungai Kiongera.
Gor failed in their bid to win the Tusker premier league in the last minute when they drew with Thika United 1-1 at the City Stadium.
Also on Logarusic radar is Nationwide Admiral top scorer with 31 goals Liberian marksman Blaty.
Contacted for comment, Logarusic did not accept or refute the reports only saying, “You might be right we are seeking more players for the next season.”
Gor play their arch rivals AFC Leopards on the 17th of this month in an FKF cup semi finals match to determine if they will go to the final of FKF Cup.
Supersport waache panganga.
I would like to see some of the above mensioned players at Gor but since this has gone public, i can say that we may not land any of them. Secrecy is the key..
Next season is our season, as long as we keep Logarusic as the coach. I know he will take his time and recruit wisely. This painful loss will drive us to an unbeaten campaign next year, with the title coming 5 or 6 games before conclusion of the league. It’s possible. I have so much faith in the club and the technical bench. As for the unruly fans who stone motorists after our matches, please raise gate charges so that they don’t get anywhere near the stadium. Which one do you prefer, charge 200 or 300 shillings to allow 400 unruly fans in to damage our precious brand or charge 1000 and do away with these people! Times have changed, the game is more corporate, viewed more as a stage to advetise and promote products, not a place for hooligans. I don’t feel safe with my car around the stadium coz these thugs can stone anyone, even by mistake. I nearly got stoned in Nakuru just because of my jersey, simply coz these thugs had refused to pay for goods and services in Nakuru. Only God saved me. Lets keep these guys out of the stadium, they can watch for free on Tv! Charge 1000 shillings and 800 respectively and let only true Kogalo fans come to the stadium. I will still pay. Many of us will still pay. And we will keep our sponsors. Sponsors don’t need crowds in the stadium. They need Tv coverage and print media. That will be covered by the shirts adorned by the players in the stadium and merchandise bought and won by the fans outside the stadium.
@Pod Antie, you are totally wrong that sponsors do not need crowd….which audience do the sponsors market their products to? Who are the targeted audience? Open up your mind and see beyond your myopic and narrow thoughts please.
How certain are you that the thugs were Gor Mahia fans? Suppose these are people sponsored by politicians to spoil the good name of the club….what is your take?
Why do you blame even innocent fans that had got nothing to do with the reported thuggery that was committed at 7pm?
Stop living in denial my friend and open up your thought to reason!!!!
Pod antie@ 2, I completely agree with you. Not that we have money more than others but it breaks my heart when I feel smoke of bhang in the stadium. Surely, why should someone come to watch soccer when drunk?.The kind of language they hurl to people outside is will make you freeze, anyway how was some of us brought up? some of the words these people say do not represent modern man. The good Kogalo jersey is now turned into jersey of thugs and wearing it does not make one proud anymore. Take Ojaro Soja, this guy is fan down to earth but you can never find him behaving in a primitive way. Please increase gate charges, increase prices for jerseys so that to keep these hooligans away. Something urgent need to be done now!
@Pod antie. U mmay be right but your statemen ”Lets keep these guys out of the stadium, they can watch for free on Tv! Charge 1000 shillings and 800 respectively and let only true Kogalo fans come to the stadium. I will still pay” I think this is nothing but lack of information. I am a more passionate GM fan more than you think you are but I cannot afford that amount every week. You really need to be empowered with information than telling us a lot of rubbish here. If you feel you are not safe with ”your car” near the stadium please watch from home free of charge for the safety of your car and yourself. Thank you.
Brother Mwakio, with all due respect to u, in the fullness of time, I think you are the one who’ll be myopic. And time will tell the difference between me and you. Unless someone has impersonated you, I didn’t expect u to reason like this, I have blogged with u here for quite sometime now but I didn’t expect u to brush aside my views without giving them a thought. I repeat, we cannot continue to accommodate these hooligans in the stadium. No sponsor will accept Gor If our ‘fans’ continue to wreck havoc on the public. Like it or not, we cannot divorce ourselves from these ppl if they follow us into the stadium. If we make the jerseys more expensive, the right Gor fans will still buy them. If we raise gate charges, the true Kogalo fans will still buy. That’s u and me and the many out here. Whichever way u look at it, we are heading no where without sponsors, meaning we can’t pay well, hence all quality talent will go to the other teams. That way we cannot win any meaningful trophies. Let’s open up our eyes to modern football. I love this club. I don’t want it stereotyped. If we are shunned by the many decision makers in corporates out here who are potential sponsors because of stereotyping then we’ll be doomed. That’s not where I want my beloved club to be.
Both @Pod Antie and @Mwakio you have one thing in common. Your passionate LOVE for gor. Both of you are right in that as many as 99% of the fans are innocent of all the accusations against us. The problem is that the good deeds like ‘arresting’ rowdy fans by gor scouts like it happened on sato for the guy who jumped into the field will never be reported by any media. Therefore unfortunatley we need to weed out the bad apples but there are alot of innocent souls who will suffer in the proceess if we increase the gate charges. All the same we would love a sponsor who can take the risk and run clinics through the branches on how to weed out hooliganism. I’m sure no well-meaning gor fan wants violence. After all the gor brand has the potential to add value to any sponsor. If there is a team more known in and out of our borders it’s gor. Therefore as we condemn violence we we should also know that some of these issues are beyond EC and should be handled by law enforcers
Its true we have people who believe to be GM fan you need alot of rowdyness accompanying the good shirt.
But remmeber the purpoted hooliganism meted on motorists on saturday night has been traced to Mr. Money bag politician of Nairobi. A few guys have reportedly been arrested with regards to the orgy.
I don’t think its fair for us pretending we’ve forgotten a few weeks ago a squad with GM jerzeys christened ‘digital branch’were caught harassing people along Jogoo Road just to malign GM brand and the Kenyan Prime Minister!
I am not bothered at all with the stereotyping bit since we all know what Kenyan politics is all about with regards to The Prime Minister..they’ve said it..stop him and GM is being dragged into it unfairly.
As much as i don’t live politics thats the reported truth and many of know it as such.
Have you asked your self why Mumias is diplomatic with efusi whereas tuzo pounces on GM on every turn? Mara the Jalee mara hooligans!We must own up to the fact that the sponsorship was a political move by a DPM and believe it or not this sponsorship from tuzo was a big mistake. No wonder the warmongers were in full tuzo replicas similar to the ones causing mayhem three weeks ago.
Let them be warned that a time is coming when even the money bags will not rescue them. Non sense.
I agree the bhang smoking is there and i have said something about it and suggested ways of stoping it before, but lets not be fooled that all violence begins and ends with GM. A BIG NO. You could read malice on these tribalists when they drove their vehicles to the PM’s office as if the courts had declared him liable. Were the vehicles stoned in the stadia or the PM’s home? And were they at the command of the PM? I will not be surprised if Mr. Money bag will volunteer to pay them out!
As much as we abhor violence to the core, we have to know that what happens in Kenya i.e hooliganism is not an isolated case, look elsewhere, from Egypt to Brazil, Argentina to Italy, England to Senegal,we all see these related occurrences. Its us to preach peace but it will not be eliminated in a twinkle of an eye, it needs concerted campaign.
@7 Kassam Mwivangano, you are absolutely right because we walked all the way to city centre and there was no violence at all. Now I agree, there was something behind it and even the statement am getting here at my work-place,I think it was organized. My prayer is that Agwambo becomes president.
@kassam you are most sober… We need a solution to stop hooliganism… its not up to the EC, it starts with us loyal fans, we have to come together and deal with it..
I dont agree with @Pod Antie… every fan has a right to enjoy watching his club play, both the ‘rich’ and ‘poor’..and hooliganism has got nothing to do with economic status so increment of gate fees in neither here nor there. Stop ignoring the ‘politics’ other bloggers are mentioning here. Even if u block people from entering the stadium, remember the violence happened outside. So long as the youths are ‘hired’, gate fees dont help
i have always said it…increasing gate fee wont help curb hooliganism.Lets make the entry accesable to all regardless of financial status.Personally i have entered into a war of words with a fellow Gor fan who threw stones onto the pitch during Zicos time.
We must police each other if we hope to arrest this situation.As long as we turn a blind eye to these ugly incidents,our club stands to suffer a great deal and that will adversely affect the playing unit and fans too!!!
There is no place for hooliganism in this modern world. Those who must throw stones just because their Team has lost are those who were marked to be born in the 18th century or before but because of one reason or the other, their births were posponed. These group of Thugs could have become Monkeys or Baboons or other Apes were they sired then! They hardly differenciate between good or bad. To them,hooliganism is part of the game. They live in the past because they were ment for the past! Do not think that they cannot afford higher gate charges! They would rather starve themselves to death but use all their earnings in attending Gor matches. They even wonder why some people do not throw stones like them! These type of people can only be changed by devine intervention!
While I know criminals are taking advantage to damage the K’galo brand and don’t expect the EC to patrol the streets when we pay taxes to have police safeguard property and lives, however the CONTINUED BHANG SMOKING AND ALL ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES DURING THE MATCHES CAN SQUARELY BE PLACED AT THE EC’S DOORSTEP COZ WHY DO THEY STILL ENGAGE THE AMORPHOUS GMFC SECURITY(150 FOR THE LAST MATCH)AND THESE ACTIVITIES GO ON UNABATED.
Y NOT SIMPLY STATION THESE GMFC STEWARDS IN THE STANDS TO ARREST OFFENDERS OR REPLACE THEM WITH POLICE TO DO THE JOB.
This is no need to raise gate charges instead they should be reduced to encourage more fans attend the games,city stadium terraces are so deplorable.BUT THE TRUTH IS THAT THIS “GMFC SECURITY” IS THE SUREST/LEAST SUSPICIOUS STRATEGY OF THE EC SWINDLING THE CLUB.
Pod Antie is coming out clearly in the common Luopean colour called pride.The fact that you can afford and is parading another fact that you have a car to you means every other struggler must be locked out.It has gotten to the usual class thing very common in Luosphere by those parking ONE Dubai car in a RENTED apartment.Do you know that those hooligans hang around(outside) the stadium untill the game is over and start their thing then?How will your theory of increasing gate charges intimidate them yet they don’t even pay in the first place?How will the club get maximum revenues.We should use better means of locking out hooliganism from our soccer days.The PA systems in the stadia must be put to good use before and after the game warning of dire consequences including being shot if you break into anyone’s property amongst many other strategies.Dunia ni dwara my friend be sober to this fact.
I’m glad to note there are many like me who’ve suffered because of insensitive weedsmokers who only think of themselves so highly. I suffered the same ordeal in the last game at City. True as everyone here echoes true K’ogallo fans abhor violence in any form or measure. As has been rightly observed, I was among a legion of Gor fans who peacefully matched to town after the game on Saturday and stoned nobodies vehicle or destroyed anyone’s property. True fans of Gor Mahia are not malicious. I strongly suggest we even print t-shirst to sensitize fellow fans on the need to keep peace during these matches. In this day and age, image is everything and everyone hellbent on tarnishing one’s image should be treated as an enemy. Again rightly observed, the way the police behave in and out of the stadium during and after the game is thoroughly wanting. The watch the match they’ve not paid for instead of keeping an eye on the trouble makers who expectedly will always be there in a game of such magnitude. When the situation gets out of hand the react unprofessionally by throwing teargas at the crowd. In the end, troubleshooters and innocent fans are all caught up in the melee. Shame on Kenyan police. LET US AGREE AND PRINT OUT T-SHIRTS WITH PEACE MSGS, WE URGENTLY NEED TO REDEEM OUR BATTERED IMAGE.
It will do K’galo and the Prime Minister a lot of good,if the PM came out in his characteristic plain talking style and told off his political detractors to fight him openly and stop dragging K’galo into political shenanigans. EC can also do the same.Let the PM/EC give direct orders police to arrest these criminals since they are not associated with them in any way.Any blogger with access to the PM/EC please advise them.
Plans 4 nxt year.
1.-EC overbloated and should be downsized to 6 with one employed executive officer.
2.Technical bench-Please retain this as is.
Playing Unit-Mine r simply suggestions bench has final word.
3.Goalkeepers-Should be retained.Very unfortunate that Jerim let the caged bird escape with one blunder after an outstanding season but thats life.
4.Defense and defensive midfield-Above average but we need one speedy overlapping wing back and a more composed/faster sweeper.
5.Attacking Midfield-Most disappointing and unrealiable.Rasta-0 goals,Kevin-0 goals Abondo-1 goal.I believe this department cost us the league.Its no surprise that the bench could in almost every game totally dismantle it by pulling Rasta to fullback and replacing the rest with attackers.Most lacked creativity to create chances for forwards to score.Skillful Kevin has very poor finishing. Lets recruit talent from the CECAFA tourney, Malawians and ethiopians.
6.Strikers-Dan’Flava’ and Daktari did very well in that most goals were from chances they created btw themselves.Why does Lavasta fad so much at the tail end of the season. Apart frm the 1st two we may nid to replace the rest.
Just my thoughts
OH MY BELOVED K’OGALO!
Alot have been said here of what transpired over the weekend during the last game on the TPL between GM and Thika United at Tok K’Omwanda.
I want to disagree completely with those who are describing GoR Mahia as a brand. No, it isn’t. Over the years, violent activities that resulted to death continue to follow the club. I cannot independently quantify the amount of property lost and the number of lives so far owing to the manual nature of our office. Such statistics should be available at the touch of button by now.
Instead of improving systems and strengthening institutions, the club continue to engage itself in boardroom wars and defending itself instead of admitting there is a serious mistake in it’s rank and file of the club.
On many ocassions, the club have come out to refute claims of existence of hooligans on it’s ranks and also never done anything to deter such occurences in future. There have never been a select committee ever constituted to investigate such crimes and recommend appropriate action and measures. Instead the club continue to introduce new twists at ever turn.
Those who are suggesting that there is political hand to the ugly incidences are missing the mark wide. Make no mistake guys. I am not also ruling out politics per se. However, before we turn elsewhere, let us first interrogate ourselves. The violent activities that are synonymous with the club did not start now when RAO is gunning for the presidency. Let us be bold enough to keep our house tidy first before blaming the neighbour for the mess.
Those who caused mayhem in the evening are genuine Gor Mahia fans. Legea or Addidas, Russia or mainstand, branch or branchless, Kibera or Kileleshwa, none is indispensable. Unless we own up, deaths will continue to follow this club like a bad jinni.
I think gentlemen we need to understand this things right,increasing the gate collection will not help hata kidogo,also what am telling you is that stoping bang smoking is another wishful thinking,have you people who are writting have ever watched the game from the russia side? i went there never to go back again,do you know there are people sitting there who even have pistols? i saw it with my necked ayes those bang smokers removing a gun infront of a police and the police decided to walk away so you people you talk of stoping these people from coming to the stadium i will wait to see what you people wants to do,my good people let the police do there work to protect the citizen of this coutry period,the said incident happened from 7pm those who did this i want us to agree were thugs in KOGALO JESSEY not not our fans and if what is being said is true that they were haired goons by the money bag guy then we bilieve the police of this country is capable of arresting those thugs unless they are also playing the same politics with this,i rest my case
At least we all agree on one thing. HOOLIGANISM and POLITICS (being introduced by MOA) has no place in modern footbal. The truth is that in our midst we have 99% loyal club fans and a thuggish 1% which the club can do without. I would not call the hooligans gor fans since if you really like the club you would avoud whatever gives it a bad name.
It’s good that even SS has realised that the problem is not gor as a club but some people who should actually be the guests of the state since no player or genuine fan had even the energy to throw stones on that day. Welcome back SS for the sake of the game and our players
I must agree what all blogers might be true @Papeyio i think you a wise for what u’ve bloged.@18 am saying so because nobody can tell if those were real Gor fans or hired goons only God and themselfs knows.i read on one blog above saying he will burn his jearsy because it bears tuzo,what if you were caught by media and put on t.v,what would pple say.i think @pod antie is calling aspade a spade and most wont agree.us Afc fans we sometimes do frakas but they are quite different from those of Gor ie,if the fans politely inqures answers for poor play and police destructs,then they face the police and not motorists,if they feel the ref is bias,they face him and not motorist or loot busineses. pliz Gor fans try to keep off this conversation which wont help,GOD knows those who did all those bad things they are just our brothers,we need to pray for God to forgive them and reform.lets talk about sato game.thanks guys. Ingweeeeee,Ingweaaaaa. My love for Afc leopards is in my blood.gunyt.
One game at a time. Next season bado imebaki 5 months.
Tanzania are 134 and us 130 on fifa ranking they are very brave they called for a friendly match in their own stadium,with their own ref’s,with their money and now we are beaten one nill.sasa tunaelekea wapi.hata haya nayawachia Mola.
Guys i fear for GM as at now we have no team manager and without team doctor. They have been sent away by loga since monday. Its rumoured that after the sato thumping changes will follow as a result i fear the more, just why and how? Why Can’t someone work with people? Oh not again, am so stressed to imagine ingwe comprehensively thrashing GM! I can’t stand it but that’s football. O’trailer why have you stayed away? You’ve known this all along i suppose!
Preventing Football Hooliganism….
http://www.footballnetwork.org/dev/communityfootball/violence_reduce_violence.asp
hooliganism in football a seen in the rest of the world…http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_hooliganism
As a gor fan, i feel that this is not just about pin pointing a team and blaming it, but what we need to do to solve hooliganism, what is MY/YOUR role as a true football fan in the solution ? its time we acted and not just talked, be livid about it – do something about it in partnership with the security agents, hell, create a database of all goons we know of irrespective of their favorite clubs and let the law take its full course !
my two cents !
Gem Kendgi, Juma, and your ilk… your mentality will not help us propose viable solutions to our impending quagmire….you are dragging the Luo community into this argument yet Gor fans cut across all communities and indeed beyond this country. And leave my rented apartment and Dubai car alone, that’s my way of life. What’s yours? A drop-top European car or extended Limo from the USA? Living in a 5-acre mansion with a 500m drive way? I could’nt care less. I love my sport and that’s probably the only thing that brings us together.
We are proposing solutions to our problems as Kogalo fans. We were all disappointed by the loss of the caged bird and we all felt the pain. To hear that we may lose our sponsor can only make it worse. Either way, we must deal with the hooligans and leave the true Kogalo fans to keep supporting the club. Just like the cost of living keeps rising, the gate collections will have to go up, if we want to pay our players well, and our coaches well too. This is not to cut out the poor, rich people don’t go to the stadium, they watch on 46 inch LED Screens, too careful not to venture out there, you know why.
Well i agree with many bloggers above that this may not be the only solution, but it does help to some extent. It can go along with other suggestions.
Other solutions have been suggested, like EC educating the fans, hiring the police rather than the Gor Security team (who always pick 50 bob to allow non ticket holders in) etc….i welcome all those.
And yes…Tuzo is a tard to fickle about our sponsorship, always looking to pull the plug rather than collectively looking for better ways to solve the issue at hand. Sounds more like they are doing us a favour, which is not entirely true.
But we need them onboard as we shop around for more sponsors. Is this more like being caught between a rock and a hard place? The truth is, we can’t get more sponsors if our ‘fans’ are linked with stoning motorists outside the stadium. And without sponsors, the future is grim for our beloved club.
Let’s keep contributing…..
My apologies, not intended for Juma @16
club house??
Pod antie @2,Iagree with you 100% .Raise gate charges to 1000 and 800/= respectively so that only real k’ogalo fans can attend gor matches. do the same to marcherndize sell t shirts @ 3000/= so that to afford it requires commitment.
Why raise the gate collection? I do not think that this will solve hooliganism problems. The solution should be driven by collective actions of being one’s keeper. The following should be considered in stamping our such vices:-
1. Public awareness
2. Civic education and continued education in all cadres
3. Banning hooliganism perpetrators from attending our matches
4. Hiring private securities to be in the midst of fans
5. Hiring more plain clothes policemen to sit with fans
6. Having fans open days to educate fans
7. Itemising or numbering replica jerseys to get the fans involved
@Pod Antie, whether it is a Dubai Stuff or you are in rented house, mano e mari ma Nyasaye okwethi godo and you must be proud of it and hence take care of it. It’s your lifestyle and no one has to decide for you. Remember something Raila said about two people takig a bath down stream and one took the other’s clothes and the chase began.
why are we not providing viable solutions to hooliganism ?1) let the police use video images to zero in on the hooligans unless they know something we dont !
2) let the jerseys be coded or numbered for easy identification in case its necessary
3)let the seats be numbered to ensure maximum revenue is collected.That means we shift our home ground to Nyayo which should be fitted with security cctv cameras
4)we need to be selling some seats quartely so that the revenue can be invested wisely.
5) the EC must be on monthly allowances approved by the AGM so that we avoid any situations that promote unethical practices
6) we must have an intelligence unit that looks at our opponents strenths and weaknesses to place us ahead of the competition and avoid situations where incompetent referees like kimani are not allowed to take charge of a serious game that decides the league champions! she was the secret weapon unleashed by our competitors and completely destroyed the flow of the game
7) the EC must give us audited accounts quarterly
8) we must be aware about the politicians trying to portray KOGALLO as LUO/ODM team! kogallo traverses all ethnic communities and they must be told we have players and fans from all over the region ! we shall overcome