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Broke BPL clubs fail to sign players

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Most Premier league clubs have seen a very quiet transfer window following a directive from the Botswana Football Association’s (BFA) First Instance Body barring premier league clubs that owe players salaries and tax levies from registering new players. Extension Gunners are among the clubs with overwhelming debts. Their spokesperson Willoughby Kemoeng declared their predicament: “We are aware of the communiqué here at Gunners but our biggest challenge is that we fail to pay players due to undertaking the running of our club on a negative balance. We should be generating money through the league where we compete however the same BFA is not coming to the party. We are owed grants and television rights monies – so how are we expected to comply with these club licensing requirements? We should at least meet each other half way. If clubs are paid their dues from time to time we will have no excuses to fail to pay our players. Our only source of income is now gate takings which does not even meet a quarter of our monthly wage bills which runs into thousands of Pula. So at Gunners we have obeyed the communiqué and we will not try to sign…

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