Mohun Bagan players want dues to be cleared at earliest, club says wait till restrictions are lifted

Star-studded Mohun Bagan’s I-League-winning gamers have threatened to method the All India Football Federation if their dues, withheld owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, will not be cleared on the earliest.

Unable to pay salaries to their gamers, together with overseas recruits, Indian membership soccer heavyweights Mohun Bagan have requested them to attend until the restrictions imposed to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic are lifted.

The membership has not been capable of pay its home gamers final three months’ salaries whereas the foreigners have gone unpaid for 2 months.

The I-League championship incentive, too, is but to be given.

“We will pay their entire salary, we have asked them to wait as the payments are affected by the lockdown,” Mohun Bagan normal secretary Srinjoy Bose instructed PTI.

The membership’s prime official responded after the gamers wrote to the administration, requesting them to clear the dues or pay at the very least a month’s wage by May 15.

The gamers had sought a deadline by which period the officers will clear their dues in full, together with efficiency bonuses, or they may search the AIFF’s intervention.

“We have written to them saying there is cost-cutting across the world. But we are not saying that we would cut their salary too.

“Some of our sponsors based in Mumbai and Delhi have not been able to operate so the salary is affected.

“We just managed to pay one month’s salary to the foreigners by borrowing money from another source. All the payments would be cleared once the lockdown is eased.”The pandemic has impacted each sphere of life the world over, together with bringing all sporting actions to a grinding halt.

“As for the incentive, we will pay it from the prize money and it will come later only,” Bose stated.

The nationwide lockdown has additionally affected Mohun Bagan’s merger with ATK, who’ve acquired a majority stake of 80 per cent within the 131-year-old membership.

The new merged outfit was slated for a June 1 launch.

“We will have to wait. There has been no development so far and everything is delayed now,” he concluded.