{"id":4165,"date":"2014-03-16T01:31:03","date_gmt":"2014-03-16T01:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=4165"},"modified":"2014-03-16T01:34:11","modified_gmt":"2014-03-16T01:34:11","slug":"gor-mahia-still-negotiating-with-brookside-dairies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-still-negotiating-with-brookside-dairies\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia still negotiating with Brookside dairies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gormahia.net\/images\/logo.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"229\" \/><\/p>\n<p>courtesy of the Nation<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Tusker Premier League champions Gor Mahia have started negotiations with milk processing firm Brookside over a new sponsorship deal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Brookside, through its Tuzo brand, has been Gor\u2019s shirt sponsors for the last three years. The Sh38 million two-year deal signed in March 2011 and which was extended in March last year to the tune of Sh37m for a season expires end of this month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Gor secretary general Chris Omondi told <em>Sunday Nation Sport<\/em> that Brookside has never made it official that it would not renew the sponsorship deal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cWhat you have been reading in the local media is speculation and falsehoods. They (Tuzo) have never put it in writing that they will not partner us when the current deal expires,\u201d said Omondi.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cIn fact we are meeting them next week and we hope to reach a common ground regarding a new and better deal.\u201d Omondi said Gor\u2019s negotiating team will push for a better deal as the current one was rigid not flexible.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cThe previous contract was a little bit restrictive and we want them to open up.\u00a0If they don\u2019t and a better deal comes up, they will have an alternative of being co-sponsors,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Gor is understood to be in talks with a host of companies but Omondi denied that they are negotiating with Keroche Breweries, saying Gor fans should not panic as measures are in place to take care of players\u2019 welfare.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Gor have also been linked to Chase Bank, who are said to be lining up a Sh15 million deal worth of insurance cover for the club.<\/p>\n<h3>Gor Mahia to pocket revenue from double header<\/h3>\n<p>Gor Mahia will pocket all ticket revenue from Sunday\u2019s double header scheduled for City Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>KCB will play host to former league champions Tusker in an early kick-off match (2pm) before K\u2019Ogalo cross swords with leaders Western Stima in the second match at 4:15pm.<\/p>\n<p>According to club Secretary General, Chris Omondi, there will be no sharing of match revenue with KCB following an agreement in principle between the two clubs in a meeting held on Thursday .<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe agreed with KCB that Gor Mahia takes care of all the match-related costs including security and safety charges and that the bankers will only use the ground to host their match. They will lay no claim on Sunday\u2019s match revenue,\u201d Omondi told the club\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>Main stand tickets retail at Sh 500 with terraces tickets going for Sh 200.<\/p>\n<\/div>\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\/gor-mahia-still-negotiating-with-brookside-dairies\/\"\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 the Nation Tusker Premier League champions Gor Mahia have started negotiations with milk processing firm Brookside over a<\/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-4165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4165","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=4165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}