Times Of Swaziland: WANDERERS STARS TO HONOUR NSINGIZINI GAME

WANDERERS STARS TO HONOUR NSINGIZINI GAME
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Mengameli Mabuza on 16/09/2023 08:24:00


MBABAME – Salaries were reportedly being processed.
Manzini Wanderers players, who have since decided to honour their first league
game of the 2023/24 MTN Premier League season after learning that their salaries
for August were being processed. At least this was the information received from
the club at the time this report was compiled after 4pm yesterday. The players
had threatened not to honour the match without receiving their salaries.
Shunned
They also shunned training since their PLE Trade Fair Cup 2023 exit about a
fortnight ago due to the unpaid wages.
Our sister publication, The Times of Eswatini reported on Wednesday that the
players opted to stay away to force the salaries payment.  They returned to
training on Wednesday after being promised they were going to get paid yesterday
morning. Wanderers play their hoodoo rivals in Nsingizini Hotspurs this
afternoon.
“We are going to play the game tomorrow (today) after we held fruitful
discussions with our management.
“We will play the game and do our best to get positive results despite not
having trained enough in the past two weeks,” said one of the players who
spoke on condition of anonymity.
The maroon and white side Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Diana Girlie Johnson,
shared that the team was currently processing the payment of the players’
salaries. “We are now processing the players’ salaries and they will get
them by close of business today or tomorrow (today) morning.
Patient
“We thank the players for being patient with the team,” she said. The CEO
went on to invite the Wanderers supporters to the match against Nsingizini.
“We plead with the supporters to come in numbers as we need them to rally
behind the players and technical bench in this difficult time,” she added. The
match kicks off at 3:30pm, King Sobhuza II Memorial Stadium in Nhlangano.