{"id":3247,"date":"2013-11-04T16:05:27","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T16:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=3247"},"modified":"2014-01-04T15:09:51","modified_gmt":"2014-01-04T15:09:51","slug":"simba-eyeing-bobby-bwana-refutes-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/simba-eyeing-bobby-bwana-refutes-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Simba eyeing Bobby, Bwana refutes report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gormahia.net\/images\/williamson.jpg\" width=\"280\" height=\"390\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to goal.com Simba officials are already in Kenya seeking to open talks with the Scottish tactician, who joined K\u2019Ogalo in June<\/p>\n<p>Bobby Williamson might be headed to the Tanzanian Vodacom Premier League if reports from Tanzania are anything to go by.<\/p>\n<p>According to <em>Mwanaspoti<\/em>, a leading Tanzania sports newspaper and website, Williamson is being sought after by multiple Tanzanian champions SImba SC. The Newspaper reports that Simba\u2019s leadership is already in town seeking to open talks with the Scottish tactician.<\/p>\n<p>Williamson joined Gor in June on a one year contract after Zdravko Logarusic left and his contract is set to expire on the first week of June. With the financial muscle SImba has they might as well buy out his contract from Gor Mahia as they seek to have him in the team from January when their second leg starts.<\/p>\n<p>Mwanaspoti reports that the Simba leadership has not been pleased with the team\u2019s performance this year especially now that they sit 4th on the table. Current coach Abdallah Kibaden is said to have lost control of the discipline of his players while at the same time, their level of play has drastically gone down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Maofisa wa ngazi ya juu wa Simba wameanza mazungumzo na kocha Bobby Williamson wa Gor Mahia ya Kenya ili achukue mikoba ya Abdalla Kibadeni<\/em>,&#8221; reads the Tanzanian newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>Kibaden replaced French man Patrick Liewig after the latter failed to knit in results, Simba losing their Tanzanian title to rivals Yanga SC.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bwana Refutes Report<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A report from michezoafrika suggests that George Bwana has indicated that Bobby Williamson is at Kogalo to stay. \u201cHe (Williamson) is an open and level minded coach whom we want to keep. We contracted him for a year which we are keen on extending for another one season. It\u2019s the dream of every club to retain its best coach\u201d says Bwana to michezoafrika<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is very open. He recently got a call from Tanzania, but asked the caller to contact us, but he never did. What you are reading (in the media) are just rumours\u201d he added<\/p>\n<p>Gor\u00a0 Mahia will be keen to hold onto Williamson who has proven a good tactician as they pursue the African and regional club competitions next year.<\/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\/simba-eyeing-bobby-bwana-refutes-report\/\"\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>According to goal.com Simba officials are already in Kenya seeking to open talks with the Scottish tactician, who joined K\u2019Ogalo<\/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-3247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3247","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=3247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}