You can’t run top club with R3m - Lovers

PRETORIA - Former Mamelodi Sundowns defender Lovers Mohlala has weighed on clubs that struggle to maintain their Premier Soccer League status due to financial pressures.

Many teams have been subjected to the financial demands of paying players and staff, and according to Mohlala, in recent media engagements in Durban, Mamelodi Sundowns has upped the game and other teams are under pressure.

“You know the situation, sometimes as a player, you must consider that other teams will always want you and as a player you must always try to push through the pain,” Mohlala told the media.

“Teams are pressurised by the way Mamelodi Sundowns run things, since Practice Motsepe got into football, players are earning R400 000.”

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Mohlala feels it is about time the PSL does something to ensure that club owners are financially sound to multimillion-Rand businesses like football clubs, to avoid cases of players not getting paid.

“The PSL must come with a mechanism, where before you own a team, (questions need to be asked).

‘How much you making or have in your bank account’. You can’t be owning a PSL club while you have R3 million in your account, how are you going to pay players?

“Financial status must match PSL clubs. There must be a way of assisting teams in getting corporate sponsors. The biggest problems are teams that are owned by individuals, unlike in Europe where it is owned by a (consortium) and it becomes hard when individuals are involved.

“When I buy a big car, you say I shouldn’t pay? Football is all about competition. Other clubs must step up and not complain about Patrice Motsepe and how he runs teams,” he aded.