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ARE Dynamos and CAPS United dragging football in Harare to its grave?
Empty stadiums, rebellions at the capital’s leading clubs, financial challenges plaguing Dynamos and CAPS United and lack of silverware could all combine to destroy the game in the capital.
Already, it’s the first time, in the history of the domestic Premiership, that both DeMbare and Makepekepe have gone a combined 18 years without winning the league championship.
The Glamour Boys are now in their 10th year without winning a league championship which, during the golden years of their dominance in the ‘80s, they won SEVEN times in 10 years.
They are yet to win the league title since Kalisto Pasuwa completed a four-peat success story in 2014.
It was also the year Bernard Marriot became chairman of the club’s board of directors before completing a boardroom coup which has now left him acting as the sole owner of the club.
Marriot actually earns a monthly salary from Dynamos.
However, a crippling rebellion by the players this week, demanding that they be paid their outstanding winning bonuses and signing-on fees, rocked the Glamour Boys.
The players refused to train even though they have a huge fixture, against Highlanders, at Rufaro on Sunday.
Yesterday, sources at Dynamos said the players were paid their outstanding winning bonuses and they expect everything to be normal going forward for the rest of the week.
“Everything has been resolved, the boys should have understood that something was being done to deal with their concerns and should have continued to train while the executive sorted out the issue,” said the sources.
“But there isn’t that bond of trust because of the past where the players are saying they were misled.”
H-Metro was also told that in the heat of the impasse, one of the Dynamos leaders was more concerned about the money, which is paid to a sangoma, than what is owed to the players.
“The money for the sangoma was featuring highly, even appearing to be bigger than what is owed to the boys and it was quite depressing,” said our sources.
“Then, there was the issue of money that is needed to ensure that one of the officials’ wife, who is not feeling well, should be given so that she gets medical attention.
“That was when all this stuff that some players have been sold to a Division One club came up but some officials refused to sanction such a deal.
“What is clear is that the challenges at Dynamos and CAPS United are affecting the appeal of the PSL, especially among fans in Harare, and things will only get worse.”
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