AFC Leopards coach Patrick Aussems is hoping to have all his players available for their next league assignment against Sofapaka scheduled for Saturday afternoon.Ingwe have been forced to use a thin squad for the opening two games of the season as half of the players are yet to be registered owing to the controversy surrounding the FIFA transfer ban that was slapped on the club.##NAJAVA_MECA_6862176##The 12-time league champions were slapped with a two-window ban for contravening FIFA’s directive not to sign any players until they clear the money owed to their former captain Soter Kayumba. Ingwe will only be able to sign new players at the end of the current season.The tactician has now revealed that he has been informed that the barred players could be available for next weekend’s match against Batoto ba Mungu and hopes that it materialises as lack of depth is bound to take a toll on his team. The locked-out players are; Emmanuel Lwanga, Ronald Sichenje, Loren James, Victor Otieno, Aboubakar Musha, Nester Olum, Cliff Nyakeya, Josphat Lopaga, Victor Omune, and Musa Oundo”Everyday I expect white smoke, hoping that I will be able to use more players but every day I don’t see anything coming. They have told me things will be okay for next week but I don’t know and with this young squad, 14 layers we can play maybe two or three games but we cannot play a whole league and we cannot have ambitions because we can’t compete, ” he said.In any country , from U8 when a referee is kicked by a player it’s a life suspension !! Here in KPL on a professional top match , with fans the referee is kicked and beaten by players , needs 6-7′ of medical treatment to recover and the match continues 11×11 … Weird no ?? pic.twitter.com/SRHIaHE6Ez— Patrick Aussems (@PatrickAussems) December 4, 2022 Despite going down 1-0 to Tusker FC, the tactician was full of praise for his young troops while taking a swipe at the Brewers’ style of play.”You can see the team that we have, 15 players are out because they are not allowed to play and I would like to congratulate our young squad and our young players because in the last 15 minutes it was kick and rush from the other team, they usually play like that and we knew it and I think that we gave them problems and they had just one opportunity, the penalty otherwise we made a good game,” he added.Ronaldo eyes World Cup quarters as Morocco dare to dream
