BULAWAYO – Castle Lager Premier League side Bulawayo Chiefs players are up in arms against their leadership over unpaid salaries and sign own fees.
Bulawayo Chiefs players haven’t been paid their salaries in the last three months and they are still owed sign own fees which were supposed to have been paid at the beginning of the season.
The players refused to train on Friday in the build up to Saturday’s away fixture to WhaWha demanding that they be paid their dues.
One of the players who spoke on condition of anonymity accused the club’s leadership of insincerity and using divide and rule tactics on the players.
“We haven’t been paid for the past three months and what we get are just empty promises. It’s like a mafia style whereby the executive gets to give some influential players money behind our backs so that we don’t have a united voice. Also the mainstream media doesn’t report about these issues because some of the journalists are on their payroll,” said one player.
“The picture that they paint through social media is not a true reflection of what’s happening at the club. They flood social media with photos of a dressing with fruits and stuff before matches but we have families to feed and we can’t take those pictures home.”
“Right now we are towards the end of the season and the fear is that once we finish the season without being paid our dues, we won’t get them. Some players have contracts lapsing at the end of the year and they will lose out.”
Bulawayo Chiefs players have since approached the Footballers Union of Zimbabwe (FUZ) to coerce the club’s leadership to pay them their salaries and sign own fees.
