Ten days into the Feb/March Football Kenya Federation Premier League transfer window and Gor Mahia are still unable to register new players.Several new recruits, including foreigners, have been training with K’Ogalo for a while now, hoping to join the club’s hierarchy once the window opens, but the wait is still on as the prevailing FIFA transfer ban is yet to be removed.🟢 | THE LOGWe are leading the league table with 37 points after 17 matches.Nzoia Sugar and KCB are 4 points a drift in the 2nd & 3rd positions, respectively (both with 33 points), after the same number of games with Nzoia enjoying a superior GD to KCB#Sirkal | #GorFansClub pic.twitter.com/2w8jAGs2Hv— GOR FANS CLUB (@OfficialGMFC) March 6, 2023 “We’re still banned,” Sam Ocholla, Gor Mahia’s General Secretary told Mozzart Sport, in contradiction to head coach Johnathan McKinstry, who over the weekend claimed that FIFA had given them the greenlight, but the Football Kenya Federation, FKF were a stumbling block.”The FIFA directive is very clear, and it says that we can sign new players, but the FKF is saying, no,” McKinstry said following Gor Mahia’s 1-0 win over Kibera Soccer in the Mozzart Bet Cup at Kasarani Stadium on Saturday.##NAJAVA_MECA_7079894##”It is frustrating and I feel bad for them (new recruits),” he added.Yet, Ocholla reiterated that “the ban has not been lifted by FIFA.” He stressed that the ban would be lifted “anytime” before the transfer window shuts at the end of the month.”We want to assure everybody that we will pay whatever is due to the players who took us to FIFA and we will be back on course before the transfer window closes.”Gor Mahia bolsters defense with signing of Rwandan InternationalSome of the players the record Kenyan champions plan to register ahead of the FKFPL second leg include Ugandan striker Patrick Kaddu, defenders Emery Bayisenge of Rwanda and Sylvester Owino, formerly of Kakamega Homeboyz.Gor Mahia were handed a two transfer window ban by the world’s football governing body FIFA for breach of contract involving Ghanaian player Jackson Owusu.The club has been relying on their youth team for players during this dark period. This has had a damaging effect on the young as currently it does not have enough players for a match day.
