For the past two decades I have been in the tranches covering sports, football in particular, experience has shown me that Malawian players will never learn and it is a sheer waste of time and resources to reason with them<\/p>\n
Since Super League of Malawi (Sulom) opened the players\u2019 transfer window last month there has been a lot of sickening stories hitting the headlines of our daily papers and news bulletins about players\u2019 transfers.<\/p>\n
These stories continue to hang like a dark cloud above our football as they continue occupying acres of space in our esteemed daily papers.<\/p>\n
I anticipated that by now, our players could have learnt something from what happened to former Big Bullets\u2019 multi-faceted midfielder Jafali Chande\u2019s transfer to rival camp Be Forward Wanderers.<\/p>\n
Last season, Chande\u2019s transfer was shrouded in controversies to the extent that the issue had to be referred to the police on suspicion that his contract documents were forged.<\/p>\n
It is surprising that in this day and age there are some players who do not want to learn the importance of respecting the contracts they signed with their respective clubs.<\/p>\n
We have read about Joseph Kamwendo terminating his contract with Wanderers and joining Super League entrants Masters Security that has degenerated into a circus.<\/p>\n
Then we have Yamikani Chester trying to terminate his with Azam Tigers despite having a running contract with the club for one more year. This has also resulted into a protracted war of words between the players and his club.<\/p>\n
For sure for the next two months, or so, we will also be watching the same comedy but with different protagonists and antagonists. That is the epitome of Malawi football.<\/p>\n
It is confusing that instead of following simple procedures of terminating contracts with their clubs, players opt to cut corners.<\/p>\n
This is a serious problem which needs divine intervention. A contract is a legal document and it cannot just be altered anyhow to suit one\u2019s ambitions.<\/p>\n
I am not surprised with these comedies because Malawi is a country where everything stopped existing 20 years ago. This is a country which is on auto pilot and it lost its compass long ago.<\/p>\n
We have a generation of unfortunate footballers who lack proper managers to guide them.<\/p>\n
Others may argue that there is need for proper civic education of our players on the issues of contract, but I do not subscribe to that notion because that would be a sheer waste of money and resources. All what they need are managers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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