Returning from training at Wankulukuku stadium recently, one Express FC footballer told me that he had not been paid for three months.
Yet, he said, last season, on the 26th day of every month, his salary was on his account. Honestly, I could understand his plight. But after giving it more thought, I wondered what we should think about club bosses, given that some of them unscrupulously take their players for a ride with a lot of empty promises. Yet others just want to buy time before they clinch the next deal so that they can pay off their players and keep the team going.
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