It is very infuriating and worrying for professional football clubs to connote such a level of unprofessional attitudes in dealing with matters o
It is very infuriating and worrying for professional football clubs to connote such a level of unprofessional attitudes in dealing with matters of the game off the field. Just when you think the bring back the love audacious call by the Ghana Football Association has been on a good ride on the field but off-field, some bad nuts are spoiling the game for their own selfish and personal unthoughtful gains which are seemingly absurd if you’d ask me.
Before I resort to putting these lots together, I want to understand the ordeal for when a player is released on a FREE TRANSFER from a club to another club (in Agreement or understanding by both parties) and when a player is released for FREE to no club but his self. Which one of these is the releasing club entitled to a future transfer percentage.
Clubs tend to take advantage of players (who have played out their contract or agreement with the club) for when they feel players data profiles can still be found on their club system, and in the spite of players looking to move on at the end of their contracts this club tend to frustrate players with releasing them to get on to their next challenge or club they find for themselves.
It is only in Ghana a football club releases a player to himself to go on to join any club of choice and still be on a future percentage clause if the player himself finds a club or joins a club. This shows the level of unprofessional nature that is embedded in our football system in Ghana. For whatever reason, if the club doesn’t do your job diligently and at the end of the players contract the player or his management decides against continuing or renewing the players’ stay with the club, you don’t go on to insert uncultured clauses because you think you have an upper hand over the transfer.
So I came by a release letter issued by our so-called professional football club Bechem United FC and it got me very perplexed and puzzled as to how on earth will that letter be issued by a professional football club who has got aboard and management, with no disrespect but that was exactly what I thought. Here’s why?
Bechem United issued a release for their former player (name withheld) who had been on with the club over last season on an amateur contract because the player was not eligible for a professional contract (age), which we know expires at the end of every football season and can be renewed. At the of the season the club deems the player surplus to requirements hence they will not register him for another season, as players management was also felt the player had limited chances at the club and it was best for the player to move on.
Immediately players’ management manoeuvred to pull out a new challenge for the player with another club, upon the club (Bechem United) realizing the player has got another opportunity to go on to a new club, Bechem United then unscrupulously, unprofessionally and shamelessly wrote an ambiguous release letter to expose their incompetencies, uncultured nature and ill attitudes dwelling in our beautiful game of football.
Since it’s in the dying embers of the transfer window, if their ordeal is not complied with they’re also not going to accept the request from the new club which Bechem United don’t have an agreement with on the said player. But because the TMS instigates the releasing clubs’ transfer reports should coincide with the interested or new club, there’s the advantage for Bechem United to demonstrate their unprofessional works. Because the player’s profile lies in their system even though they don’t have any contractual agreement with the player.
As this had gone through a back and forth until the last day of the transfer window with the new club not having an option as they had added the player to their plans for the season hence would go by the unprofessional behaviour of the so-called professional football club. And for that matter, if the new club had not gone with Bechem United’s order the player’s move would have fallen through and the player in question would have to stay home without playing until another window opens. And you could understand what that means.
No professional football administrator will sanction this ordeal knowing perfectly well there’s no agreement with the player and the player is being released as a FREE PLAYER. With my little football knowledge, I know a club can release a player to another club on a FREE TRANSFER in an agreement between both clubs with an agreed clause (future percentage, buy-back etc) not like this one that these people are doing or have done.
Releasing a player to himself to look for another club by himself and vehemently puts a clause in the Release Letter, with not even knowing where the player goes next. This is highly spiritual and unprofessional because it can’t be found in any football books. Any club who goes about their ways like that should desist from it and do diligently what is expected of them and not go crumbling for what is not due them but shamelessly do something to want to salvage themselves or their miss out.
I believe the Ghana Football Federation knows better than them (Bechem United FC) and should put them in order as they’re on a wayward curve or better still organize in-depth training for clubs to know the do’s and don’ts in this respect as I bet these guys are lurking behind. With this ordeal which has now been completed the Ghana FA should revoke the clause in the evidence of the unprofessional release letter issued by the unprofessional football club as it’s inculpable and shouldn’t be associated with our football.
Football administrators should propagate professionalism within our football circus and not look to taking advantage of players or players managers by flouting understandings and agreements understated because they feel they’re advantageous because player profile has got into their system. I believe many players have fallen victim to many unprofessional attitudes by club management on instances about players release.
When the club feels a player has got lots of prospects, you tie him down with a new long term contract. With that you are secured but you don’t wait till the contract expires and the player wants to move and you start making unscrupulous and outrageous demands for when you’ve no contract with the player, Doesn’t make sense.
I call on the GFA to go on to check these things, especially this particular one in which there’s clear evidence of unprofessionalism in the context.
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