Will
LISCR Players Be Paid?
LISCR Lineup
Sentimental favorites LISCR FC on Sunday ended Mighty Barrolle
unbeaten run in the on going LFA 2009 league season with an emphatic
2-0 drubbing, courtesy of what observers describe as adventurous
football fro the victors and poor tactical awareness (changing of
winning team after beating BYC 3-0) from the losers.
The win moved the Central Monrovia club, LISCR a step closer, but
yet still far from the top, and are bracing themselves for tougher
challenges.
After such a scrumptious victory, arguably the team's biggest this
season, the question on the lips of many is whether LISCR players
will be paid this time.
The entire playing body was astonished and dejected when the club
president Mustapha Raji who is regarded as a "local football
dictator" refused to pay his players for the month of April on
grounds that they are performing poorly in the on going national
championship chase.
"They say we are like Christmas light, at one point we are on and at
another point we are off, we are not consistent, at one point we
win, and then it is a draw or loss", one player who preferred
anonymity noted.
Though it is not indicated in the players contract that their
salaries would not be paid due to so called poor results, and this
latest action or decision by Raji is highly discouraging.
One would wonder as what would have Raji done had he being a
president of a highly rated club like Real Madrid that was trounced
6-2 by their rivals, Catalans giants Barcelona in the el-classico.
Would he has ordered these players not to be paid?
It is generally believed that Raji interferes a lot, and is so
obsessed with the little he spends in terms of transferring players
and as well arrangement for some Indonesian based misfits to augment
his club.
Moreover, the players in the various clubs are virtually peers, and
that no club has absolute dominance over the other.
Most of the players are recycled ones, as they leave from one club
to the other each season. The level of motivation is not high, and
besides LPRC Oilers, NPA Anchors and Russian-backed UMC Roots that
are inarguably the highest paid clubs in terms of players salary,
the rest of the clubs get little or nothing.
All eyes are looking into the LISCR direction in a truculent manner
to see whether the win against 'strong in Buchanan' Mighty Barrolle
will make them earn their just salary or there could even be huge
bonus.
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