Aduana Stars captain Yahaya Mohammed has revealed that his outfit still owe the playing body monthly salarie ahead of the start of the new season in December.
Mohammed said that he and his team mates are struggling due to unpaid player salaries, but leapt to the defence of club President and chief of Dormaa Ahenkro, Osagyefo Oseadeeyo Nana Agyemang Badu II, saying his upcoming 20th Anniversary celebration as chief of Dormaa has kept him hugely burdened financially.
"It’s true (the club owes us salaries) as you’ve heard, I have also seen such news but it’s never true we don’t go to training", he confirmed to FOX FM in an interview.
"Last week Friday was the one week commemoration for the demises of our chairman George Gyau’s wife so the players were given a training day off, so some of the players left to see their families, others went for treatments so yesterday (Tuesday) most of the senior players could not report for training, so it’s not that Aduana Stars players have boycotted training as is being reported, no, yesterday we trained".
He added: "For two years now we don’t football in Ghana so me as a player maybe me as Yahaya can sacrifice due to the relationship between me and Nana [Agyemang Badu II] but maybe Kojo cannot sacrifice same as Kwame (citing examples with non-Aduana players names), if all the players boycott training me as Yahaya alone cannot go to training, I will follow them, so it’s up to me [as captain] to convince them, if I convince them and it works out fine, so be it, but if I convince them and it fails too then we move it from there but I know that the players i’m working with they will understand me and anything I will put on board too they will look at it twice and give me the benefit of the doubt and give me a good answer".
The former Asante Kotoko striker debunked reports that the debt is up to nine months.
"No, no, no nine months why, no, no, no, it’s not up to nine months, it’s almost five months”, he clarified.