{"id":15381,"date":"2019-11-15T22:50:39","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T22:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=15381"},"modified":"2019-11-15T22:51:45","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T22:51:45","slug":"oktay-corruption-by-officials-prevented-new-sponsorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/oktay-corruption-by-officials-prevented-new-sponsorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Oktay: Corruption by officials prevented new sponsorship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/oktay-usher.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"464\" height=\"308\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Former Gor Mahia coach Hassan Oktay is saying that he actually worked out a deal to get Gor Mahia sponsorship but the deal was nixed by club officials because they were not getting kickbacks from the deal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Courtesy of goal.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The former K\u2019Ogalo coach explains to Goal how his dream of building a training ground for the Kenyan champions collapsed  Hassan Oktay has openly revealed how he secured sponsorship for Gor Mahia which later did not materialise. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Turkish-Cypriot coach has exclusively told Goal he negotiated with the airline to help build a training facility for the Kenyan champions but the deal could not go through because \u2018some officials in the club were not receiving any amount from the same.\u2019 \u201cI tried very hard to bring [Gor Mahia] Turkish Airlines to build them a training ground but it never worked out because Gor Mahia officials were not receiving anything from the deal,\u201d Oktay told Goal on Friday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The former K\u2019Ogalo coach explains to Goal how his dream of building a training ground for the Kenyan champions collapsed  Hassan Oktay has openly revealed how he secured sponsorship for Gor Mahia which later did not materialise. The Turkish-Cypriot coach has exclusively told Goal he negotiated with the airline to help build a training facility for the Kenyan champions but the deal could not go through because \u2018some officials in the club were not receiving any amount from the same.\u2019 \u201cI tried very hard to bring [Gor Mahia] Turkish Airlines to build them a training ground but it never worked out because Gor Mahia officials were not receiving anything from the deal,\u201d Oktay told Goal on Friday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI convened a meeting between the Airline, the Turkish Embassy, and Gor Mahia officials and agreed I will be in charge of the process but now that no one from [Gor Mahia] was to benefit, the deal died a natural death. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTurkish Airlines were ready to help the club, they were willing to build a state of the art training ground for the club, I was left in shock because the deal just died like that. \u201cGor Mahia needs to have their own football facility like teams in Tanzania do, they need to have a canteen where the players can eat and have drinks after training or matches, they need a place where the players can go and rest.\u201d Oktay, who left K\u2019Ogalo at the beginning of this season after winning the Kenyan Premier League (KPL) title and helping the side to reach the quarter-finals of the Caf Confederation Cup, has also said he does not understand why the best club in East Africa (Gor Mahia) does not have money to sustain themselves. \u201cWhen I was leaving the club, they already sold [Jacques] Tuyisenge for a lot of money and also received huge money from Caf for reaching the group stage, but every day they are complaining we don\u2019t have money,\u201d Oktay continued. \u201cWhere does the money go? All the time they are crying, we don\u2019t have money, we don\u2019t have money. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is a very bad a bit for such a big club which is respected in the East and Central African region. They must be in a position to sustain themselves and avoid begging all the time.\u201d Oktay also said he was eyeing to win the Caf Confederation Cup this season with the club had he stayed on as the coach. \u201cI had two targets had I stayed on as the coach, one was to go beyond the quarters in the Caf Champions League but had we dropped to the Confederation Cup, then my intention was to win the trophy. \u201cI left Gor Mahia with a very good squad, and I am shocked to learn they were bundled out of the Confederation Cup. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You remember last season, we tried and reached the quarters, and were it not for the failure by the top management to pay the players&#8217; salaries, then we could have gone far.\u201d Oktay was appointed Gor Mahia coach on December 10, replacing Englishman Dylan Kerr who had fallen out with the club management. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On his next move, Oktay responded: \u201cI want to coach a national team. I am now ready to come back. 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