{"id":15560,"date":"2020-01-08T03:43:25","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T03:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=15560"},"modified":"2020-01-08T03:44:06","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T03:44:06","slug":"afiriyie-off-to-botswana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/afiriyie-off-to-botswana\/","title":{"rendered":"Afiriyie off to Botswana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/afiriyie-gabo.jpg\" width=\"591\" height=\"788\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Francis Afiriyie is the latest player to leave Gor Mahia and his likely destination is Botswana where he landed on Tuesday<\/p>\n<p>Additional reporting from Citizen Sports<\/p>\n<p>The financial crunch at Gor Mahia is taking toll on players with Ghanaian striker Francis Afriyie the latest to ditch the club.<\/p>\n<p>Afriyie left for his native country Ghana before Christmas but has not returned.<\/p>\n<p>Gor however got news of his exit at the weekend via his agent, who attributed his departure to lack of payment of his client\u2019s salary, which he argues is a breach of the contract.<\/p>\n<p>The Ghanaian joined the Kenyan champions at the beginning of the season and has been an important cog in K\u2019Ogalo\u2019s formation.<\/p>\n<p>Club deputy secretary general Ronald Ngala confirmed the developments. \u201cHis( Afriyie)\u00a0 agent said we have not been able to pay the striker as per the contract. This has been due to lack of finances since we currently don\u2019t have a sponsor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Afriyie\u2019s exit comes just a fortnight after another striker, Ivorian import Gnamien Yikpe ditched the club for\u00a0 Yanga SC of Tanzania, featuring as a substitute on January 4 in the derby against Simba which ended two-all.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/afiriyie-off-to-botswana\/\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground:  !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 100% !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francis Afiriyie is the latest player to leave Gor Mahia and his likely destination is Botswana where he landed on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[618,112],"class_list":["post-15560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-francis-afiriyie","tag-gor-mahia-transfers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15560"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15562,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15560\/revisions\/15562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}