Silver Strikers senior players have revolted against the club\u2019s chairperson, Oscar Mabulekesi, claiming he lacks interest in the game.<\/p>\n
Mabulekesi was elevated to the position after Macdonald Mafuta-Mwale stepped down last year, due to work commitments.<\/p>\n
Now, a group of senior Silver players have threatened to leave the club if Mabulekesi remains the chairperson.<\/p>\n
The players confided in The Daily Times <\/em>on Tuesday that they want Mwale back at the helm of the club. Mafuta-Mwale is one of the club\u2019s board members.<\/p>\n \u201cHe doesn\u2019t have interest in football and he doesn\u2019t care about the welfare of the players. There was a time when players went some months without pay. We called him, but he clearly told us that he is not interested in the issue. We don\u2019t want him. Just imagine, he doesn\u2019t know some of his players,\u201d one of the players explained.<\/p>\n \u201cIf he stays as the chairperson of the club there will be total confusion at Silver when the season starts. Most of the players are now thinking of not renewing contracts under his leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n Another senior player claimed that the club owes them game bonuses amounting to K80, 000 per player.<\/p>\n Mabulekesi yesterday dismissed the players\u2019 claims, saying he is doing business unusual.<\/p>\n \u201cI know some players want to get special treatment from the officials, but I treat all the players equally. If they are not happy let them go. Some new players will come,\u201d Mabulekesi said.<\/p>\n The Bankers boss also confirmed that the club would embark on a serious rebuilding exercise next season.<\/p>\n Silver endured a difficult campaign in the 2015 when they finished on position five with 44 points in the TNM Super League. Silver ended the season empty-handed as they also failed to defend the Standard Bank Knock-Out Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Silver Strikers senior players have revolted against the club\u2019s chairperson, Oscar Mabulekesi, claiming he lacks interest in the game. Mabulekesi was elevated to the position after Macdonald Mafuta-Mwale stepped down last year, due to work commitments. Now, a group of senior Silver players have threatened to leave the club if Mabulekesi remains the chairperson. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15834,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15815\/revisions\/15834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}