{"id":16173,"date":"2020-08-27T03:08:32","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T03:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=16173"},"modified":"2020-08-27T03:08:32","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T03:08:32","slug":"polack-not-happy-with-rumoured-signings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/polack-not-happy-with-rumoured-signings\/","title":{"rendered":"Polack not happy with rumoured signings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/polack-warmup-bujumbura.jpg\" width=\"558\" height=\"372\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gor Mahia coach Steve Polack has been caught by surprise by all the rumoured signings associated with Kogalo and he isn&#8217;t happy<\/p>\n<p>Additional reporting from goal.com<\/p>\n<p>The agitated tactician is not happy with K\u2019Ogalo officials for allegedly trying to sign players for the champions behind his back<\/p>\n<p>Gor Mahia coach Steven Polack has denied knowledge the club has signed four foreign players.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last three days, the Kenyan Premier League (KPL) champions have been linked with former Rayon Sports and Burundian striker Jules Ulimwengu, Tito Okello from Ugandan champions Vipers SC, Cameroonian defensive midfielder Konfor Bertrand Ngafei and Malawi U20 international Andrew Numero.<\/p>\n<p>The British tactician has now vehemently denied knowledge of the players coming to Gor Mahia and further asked Goal to seek an audience with the management over the same issue.<br \/>\nEditors&#8217; Picks<\/p>\n<p>When asked about the new arrivals at the club, Polack told Goal: \u201cI think you have to ask the management about that, you need to go and speak to management about that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pressed further to explain why Goal should speak to management whereas he is the coach supposed to do the signings, Polack said: \u201cThat is what I am saying you should do, speak to the management, just talk to them, I think they know more than the coach knows.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just said go and ask the management, I don\u2019t know anything about it, maybe they know about it more than I do, so maybe you should talk to them, they are in a position to answer that question.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes people do things they think is right and it is not right, but see what they will say to you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked on whether he has settled on new players to bring to the club, Polack said: \u201cThere are a lot of players I would like to sign but you know in football you cannot sign players if you don\u2019t have money, sometimes you get the players that you want sometimes you don\u2019t get the players you want, you must be ready for the future.\u201d<br \/>\nArticle continues below<\/p>\n<p>Gor Mahia have experienced a mass exodus of players in this transfer window with defender Joash Onyango joining Simba SC of Tanzania, keeper David Mapigano landing at Azam FC, winger Dickson Ambundo joined promoted side Dodoma Jiji while Boniface Omondi and goalkeeper Peter Odhiambo have been unveiled by Wazito FC.<\/p>\n<p>On top of that, the team is on the verge of losing captain Kenneth Muguna who is negotiating with Petro Atletico of Angola and Motema Pembe of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, defender Charles Momanyi who is a target for KCB and Ghanaian Jackson Owusu, who left for his native country and may not return.<\/p>\n<p>Gor Mahia will carry Kenya\u2019s Caf Champions League flag by virtue of being declared the KPL champions in the last campaign.<\/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-not-happy-with-rumoured-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>Gor Mahia coach Steve Polack has been caught by surprise by all the rumoured signings associated with Kogalo and he<\/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":[112,622],"class_list":["post-16173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-gor-mahia-transfers","tag-steve-polack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16173","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=16173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16174,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16173\/revisions\/16174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}