{"id":15992,"date":"2020-07-16T02:27:13","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T02:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=15992"},"modified":"2020-07-16T02:34:28","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T02:34:28","slug":"polack-has-identified-new-signings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/polack-has-identified-new-signings\/","title":{"rendered":"Polack has identified new signings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/polack-clap.jpg\" width=\"820\" height=\"462\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With the imminent departure of certain key players, coach Polack is looking to strengthen the team ahead of the 2020-2021 season<\/p>\n<p>Additional reporting from Goal<\/p>\n<p>The British tactician reveals to Goal he has opened talks with new players he wants to be signed ahead of the new season<br \/>\nGor Mahia coach Steven Polack has revealed he has identified players he will sign for the club ahead of the new season.<\/p>\n<p>K\u2019Ogalo will be taking part in the Caf Champions League after being declared champions for the 2019-20 campaign after the league was ended owing to the effects caused by the coronavirus effect and will also chase the league and domestic Cup titles.<\/p>\n<p>With that in mind, the British coach has confirmed to Goal he has already identified the areas he will work to strengthen and has gone ahead to engage the new signings who will be unveiled in due course.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe talking to players in the Kenyan league, we are talking to a lot of Kenyan players and I will not give you the names or positions, just know we are in talks with several players and the talks are very positive for now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet people know, and we have to do it a little more professional, about the transfers because if you start saying the names then everything might fail before they even sign, so we are not going to give names, we will let people know when the deals are done and I want to set the bar, we want to get them all signed first and then we unveil them in one press conference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Polack, however, took his time once again to hit out at Football Kenya Federation (FKF) and KPL officials for the uncertainty which is still surrounding the fate of last season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know after the president said there is no social gathering, we are doing nothing, we are still in the dark, will the league continue, was the league ended? In fact, everyone is in the dark.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImagine after three months, FKF and KPL have refused to come out and tell us what is happening, we are all in the dark, we don\u2019t know what is happening, it is not good at all for Kenyan football, something needs to be done, and it should be made public.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Gor Mahia will take part in the Champions League, Kenya will have no representative in the Caf Confederation Cup.<\/p>\n<h2>FKF set to unveil new sponsors for the league<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/mwendwa-red.jpg\" width=\"656\" height=\"469\" \/><\/p>\n<p>FKF president Nick Mwendwa, who is vying for re-election and who is also intent on taking over the running of the KPL, has announced a deal with a new sponsor.<\/p>\n<p>Additional reporting from the Nation<\/p>\n<p>Bet King, a gaming company with strong roots in Nigeria, could be the new title sponsor of the Kenyan Premier League (KPL), Nation Sport understands.<\/p>\n<p>Football Kenya Federation (FKF) President Nick Mwendwa, in his characteristic fashion, took to Twitter to announce that he had secured a multi million deal for Kenya&#8217;s top league.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today in history! Over 1.2 billion shillings for the FKF Premier League for 5 seasons,&#8221; he tweeted on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>According to a reliable source, the new sponsor, who will be officially announced on Thursday morning, is Bet King, a company that was founded in 2017 and is fully established and running in Nigeria with Super Eagles legend Jay Jay Okocha as the main brand ambassador.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mwendwa, who was just short of letting the cat out of the bag, the new deal will see each KPL clubs bag Sh8 million per season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At least Sh8 million for each club starting 2020\/21 season &#8230;&#8230;..Vijana wacheze ball ! &#8221; he tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>The new deal was signed off on Wednesday evening at a popular hotel in Hurlingham, Nairobi.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting to note is that the federation boss no longer refers to the top league as the Kenyan Premier League (KPL), but as the FKF Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>KPL&#8217;s mandate to run the league expires in September and Mwendwa is on record saying they are not eager to renew the contract.<\/p>\n<p>According to a reliable source, FKF has been in advanced talks with two prospective sponsors who were interested in securing the title rights for the top league.<\/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\/polack-has-identified-new-signings\/\"\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>With the imminent departure of certain key players, coach Polack is looking to strengthen the team ahead of the 2020-2021<\/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":[413,622],"class_list":["post-15992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-nick-mwendwa","tag-steve-polack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15992","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=15992"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15995,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15992\/revisions\/15995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}