Another cash-strapped PSL club joins Swallows in salary delays saga
Another PSL club is in turmoil, facing mounting financial pressure with reports of December salaries not paid in full.
The non-payment of salaries by PSL clubs is slowly becoming a pandemic, as we witnessed what happened with Moroka Swallows after the side was embroiled in salary delay woes.
The Dube Birds failed to honour their last two DStv Premiership fixtures of 2023 against Mamelodi Sundowns and Golden Arrows due to an unresolved dispute [non-payment of salaries] between the players and management which led to the players’ strike.
As a result, Maswaiswai were fined by the PSL DC with charges of misconduct and bringing the league into disrepute.
PSL SIDE CAUGHT IN FINANCIAL CROSSHAIRS
FARPost can reveal that Baroka FC have become the latest PSL club caught in financial crosshairs due to non-payment of salaries to its players and staff.
According to a source close to this publication, the players and staff were only paid 50% of their salaries on the 25th of December 2023.
After receiving 50% of their salaries on December 25, the players and staff were promised to get another half of their salaries at the end of December 2023.
However, the club’s hierarchy did not live up to their promise. When everyone has been trying to reach out to the club, the Limpopo side is giving them a run-around.
In fact, this is not the first time Bakgaga find themselves in this kind of a mess. At the beginning of the season when the team was still struggling to get results, the players were paid half of their salaries. When the players tried to find out the reason behind that, they were told that it was because the results were not forthcoming.
Sadly, some of the players are failing to come back to training because they don’t have the money to do so.
BAROKA’S NEXT ASSIGNMENT
The side will return to action on Wednesday, 14 February 2024. Baroka will take on Platinum City Rovers at home in a Motsepe Foundation Championship clash.
The showdown will start at 15:30 at Global Stadium.
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