{"id":67598,"date":"2018-06-27T08:43:30","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T06:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=67598"},"modified":"2018-06-27T08:43:30","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T06:43:30","slug":"wanderers-hopeful-on-precious-sambanis-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/06\/27\/wanderers-hopeful-on-precious-sambanis-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanderers hopeful on Precious Sambani\u2019s return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>BY MPHATSO MALIDADI<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>TNM Super League holders, Be Forward Wanderers, hope that defender-cum-midfielder, Precious Sambani, will return to the team\u2019s fold this week.<\/p>\n<p>Since his return from South Africa where he had a grand performance for the Flames during the Cosafa Cup, Sambani has not featured for Wanderers in four games.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Sambani refused to comment on why he did not travel with Wanderers to the Central Region to play against Kamuzu Barracks and Blue Eagles in league games.<\/p>\n<p>He was spotted at Chilomoni Stadium in Blantyre, watching FMB Under-20 League games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are some issues but I cannot comment through the media,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>However, Wanderers Vice- Chairperson, Allan Chuma, said Sambani will return to the side this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery player, just like any employee, is entitled to a leave. Just like you [reporter] you can also rest due to some circumstances. If Sambani hasn\u2019t been playing, we know the reasons and for sure, this week, he will be with us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Wanderers have admitted battling against a huge wage bill and recently some players, including Dan Kumwenda and Peter Cholopi, threatened to terminate their contracts over unpaid signing-on fees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY MPHATSO MALIDADI TNM Super League holders, Be Forward Wanderers, hope that defender-cum-midfielder, Precious Sambani, will return to the team\u2019s fold this week. Since his return from South Africa where he had a grand performance for the Flames during the Cosafa Cup, Sambani has not featured for Wanderers in four games. On Saturday, Sambani refused [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":67602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67598","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\/67598","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=67598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67603,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67598\/revisions\/67603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}