He said it has been over five months since the Ghana Premier League came to a halt following the airing of the Number 12 expose by investigative journalist, Anas Armeyaw Anas, where some officials were captured on tape taking bribes. However, players of certain clubs think their contracts have been exhausted so they are free to move to other teams or they are free agents and can negotiate on their own without the consent of their clubs.
He believes it is not right for players to hold on to their contracts while there have not been official matches played.
“The Normalisation Committee must come out with a clear-cut decision with regard to contracts of players under these circumstances where they are no official football activities because you have a contract with players up till a certain period.
Some players leave after the club has fulfilled the entire financial obligation to them and because they think their contract has ended they can depart and seek another contract elsewhere. Clearly, the clubs are in a difficult situation at the moment.”
He further said that most clubs had suffered this fate due to the current situation and must be addressed amicably for both parties to understand.
“The Normalisation Committee must decide whether within this period player contracts hold or does not. Hearts of Oak have suffered the same with Samudeen Ibrahim and Karela United is also going through same”.
He, however, called on the Normalisation Committee to quicken the process of introducing the novelty league to keep the players active. Read Full Story
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