Oilers LD$600,000.00 Trouble!

           Oilers Player  Freeman Mulbah

By Roland M. Mulbah   

What could be termed as a future frustration in the case of top level football or player transfer in the Liberia Football Association (LFA) 2009 National league is said to be looming as the inspirational Jasmie Rangers’ players Freeman Mulbah, Gus Totimeh and Momo Blamo, Jr. could be bothered in their quest to play top level football where their transfer to LPRC Oilers is said to be in a hitch over a so-called LD$200,000.00 transfer fees.

According to reports gathered by Champions Sports, Jasmie Rangers’s president, who just returned from the United States of America, is demanding a no compromised LD$600,000.00 for the three players if their quest to play for Oilers will be achieved.

The reports say, Oilers coach Gabriel Johns had earlier gone to Jasmie’s administration to discuss the players’ transfer, but it was learnt by this paper that the Rangers boss clearly told Oilers’ coach that only the LD$600,000.00 is holding the players.

“We went to negotiate for the players, but their team is demanding LD$200,000.00 flat at transfer fees for each of the player.  

 “We want to go back to the old transfer fees of LD$40,000.00 for each player, but their team has denied us,” Oilers’ coach Johns noted in a frustrated mood.

The players have since impressed in their two weeks tryout with the oil boys, but the huge transfer fees could see their dream of playing top level died.

It can be recalled some time last year after the Zurich meeting, clubs of the LFA demanded the LFA to carry on a professional league.

The LFA than listed some requirements for carrying on a professional league. Among the requirements, the local football house wrote every premier team to have an office space, home ground for league matches, LD$200,000.00 as transfer fees, minimum salary of LD$2,000.00 for players and staffers among others.

Whether all of these will hold and whether the so-called professional league will take effect, remain the biggest question waiting for answer.