{"id":2818,"date":"2013-07-30T12:02:04","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T12:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=2818"},"modified":"2013-07-30T12:04:01","modified_gmt":"2013-07-30T12:04:01","slug":"rama-in-qatar-for-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/rama-in-qatar-for-trials\/","title":{"rendered":"Rama looks to move to Qatar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gormahia.net\/images\/rama-sofa12b.jpg\" width=\"280\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of futaa.com<\/p>\n<p>Gor Mahia has confirmed that indeed there has been interest expressed by Qatari Division 2 side Al \u2013 Markhiya to sign Kenyan international Rama Salim.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <i>futaa.com<\/i>, the club\u2019s vice chairman Faiz Ochieng noted that the club inquired for the forward\u2019s services and in the preliminary talks, the club offered to get him for one million shillings, which the Tusker Premier League (TPL) side rejected.<\/p>\n<p>Upped offer<\/p>\n<p>The Qatari club then upped their offer to two million shillings but as Faiz puts it, nothing is signed and the club\u2019s officials are supposed to land in Nairobi for talks either today (Tuesday 30 July) or tomorrow, after missing a flight on Monday 29 July.<\/p>\n<p>He said, contrary to speculations that Rama has already left, the former Congo United star is still in the country and added that if the deal proves to be fine for both parties he will be allowed to leave with the club\u2019s blessings.<\/p>\n<p>Confirmation<\/p>\n<p>-It is true that Al \u2013 MarkhiyaSports Club, a Division 2 League side from Qatar has inquired about Rama. They initially offered us a million but we felt Rama\u2019s valuation is way past that and they thus increased it to two million.<\/p>\n<p>-However, nothing is signed with them and Rama has not yet left to join the club. The club\u2019s representatives are supposed to come over today or tomorrow for detailed talks. They were supposed to come Monday but they missed a flight.<\/p>\n<p>Open deal<\/p>\n<p>-This is an open deal and contrary to speculation we are not hiding anything. Everything will be done in the open for the good of the club, fans and everyone involved. If the deal is right we will grant him our blessings, he told <i>futaa.com<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Rama is currently Gor Mahia&#8217;s top scorer with five goals and has been instrumental in the team&#8217;s rise to the top of the 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\/rama-in-qatar-for-trials\/\"\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>Courtesy of futaa.com Gor Mahia has confirmed that indeed there has been interest expressed by Qatari Division 2 side Al<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-2818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818","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=2818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}