For the second time this season, Zimbabwe premiership giants Caps United are at crossroads following an industrial action by players who are threatening to boycott the league over unpaid salaries and winning bonuses.
FARPost has it on good authority that the club owes players two months salaries and bonuses.
And since their Chibuku Super Cup defeat to Black Rhinos last weekend, they are yet to regroup for training in protest ahead of a crucial trip to Bulawayo where they will face the resurgent Highlanders at Barbourfields stadium on Sunday.
While the club leadership has remained silent about the impasse, players have expressed their displeasure about how they are being treated by the Farai Jere owned club.
Jere is the current Zimbabwe Premier Soccer League board chairman.
Winger Emmanuel Mandiranga posted an emotional plea on Facebook, saying the impasse between the government arm, Sports and Recreation Commission and the Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) has all but enhanced the suffering of footballers at all levels.
“It is the dream of all Zimbabwean footballers including myself to play abroad and be financially stable to change the lives of our local communinities and families.
“However, the suspension on the local football has come as a hindrance to achieving that dream because of a lot of opportunities to be scouted let alone representing our beloved Zimbabwe.
“The more time we spend without resolving the issues at hand, the more we throw many local talent in the dust bin.
“We are asking for urgency in solving the problems in our local football and for the suspension to lifted in no time so that our sole proffesion is recognized regionally and world wide. #RestoreOurFootballCareers,” Mandiranga posted on Facebook.
Last time out, three players were fired from the club on allegations of influencing the strike, with ex-Maritzburg forward Clive Augusto top of the list.
Augusto has since reunited with Chicken Inn while the other two Ronald Chitiyo and Simba Chinani surfaced at Simba Bhora in the Northern Region Division One.
The Harare-based club has had perennial financial woes, since mobile network giant, NetOne withdrew their sponsorship.
Caps United missed out on a massive financial injection from the country’s largest fuel distributor, Sakunda Holdings, which has kept Dynamos and Highlanders afloat.
And at the moment, the club is said to be in talks with an unnamed fuel company but nothing has materialized.
