Ousted Nairobi governor Mike Sonko has offered to pay Gor Mahia’s debts at Camp Toyoyo to allow Kenya’s most decorated club and top-flight defending champions to continue with their training ahead of this Saturday’s Mashemeji derby.Gor Mahia did not train on Wednesday after the Toyoyo management turned away players in the frigid morning. K’Ogalo were scheduled to train immediately after their weekend rivals Ingwe but they ended up enjoying the pitch-side porridge as they waited for team management to sort the impasse to no success.After two hours in the 16 degrees centigrade cold the players dispersed without training.The management of Camp Toyoyo are claiming two hundred and fifty thousand shillings in unpaid debts by Gor Mahia.The most entertaining match of @Officialfkfpl is on this weekend. @AFCLeopards vs @GorMahia_FC will be battling for the glory this weekend.Waiting eagerly to see how my young #Leopards will perform.#OursForever 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 pic.twitter.com/UIIuSXyPBL— kelvin omuka (@kelvinomuka) July 28, 2021 In spite owing the grounds such amounts, team handlers are said to have thumped chests to Toyoyo managers that ‘they are Mahia and will use the ground whether they were in debt or not’ prompting the impasse.Team manager Jolawi Obondo who deals with the Toyoyo management was out of town on Wednesday while treasurer Dolphina Odhiambo tried to sort the issue in vain.Ex-governor Sonko, upon hearing the grapevine about K’Ogalo’s woes ahead of the Mashemeji Derby made frantic inquiries about the debts involved and promised to settle it in Thursday training scheduled for lunch time.All the best @KennethMuguna10 pic.twitter.com/K40op8xrs8— Gor Mahia FC (@FCGorMahia) July 21, 2021 Gor Mahia’s management blunders are piling by the day while quality is also escaping the club as coaches and players flee every season.Former skipper Kenneth Muguna and Portuguese tactician Manuel Vaz Pinto are the latest talents to dump the club leaving K’Ogalo on a free fall and increasingly looking unable to defend their title from last season.Gor Mahia are 8th on the log and headed to their worst finish in a decade if their fortunes to do not change quickly.
