Highlanders’ Chief Executive Officer, Sihlangu Dlodlo, has said the club has now settled nearly all signing-on fees owed to players from the 2023 season after principal sponsors Sakunda Holdings made the necessary funds available.
Dlodlo further disclosed that the club is now fully up to date with all winning bonuses for the matches in which the team secured maximum points. He was quoted by The Herald as saying:
I can confirm that we paid 80 per cent of the 2023 players’ signing-on fees. I think we will be completely done paying all the players by the end of the week and Devine Mhindirira, who recently left us to join FC Platinum, is one of the players that we paid. We love him so much that we also allowed him to leave us.
We are very thankful to our principal sponsors Sakunda Holdings who have stood with us for a long time.
We want to appreciate the patience of our players in waiting for their signing-on fees. We thank them for their commitment.
We don’t owe our players any winning bonuses and we are in the process of sorting out their bonuses for the [2-0 win over] Dynamos.
Club secretary-general Morgen Dube said they are largely satisfied with their squad but will seek to bolster the defensive ranks. Said Dube:
In this second transfer-window we have managed to bring in two strikers Never Rauzhi and Nqobile Ndlovu.
We will see how it goes as we seek to strengthen our defence but we are not on a mass recruitment drive. We are happy with the squad that we have and we will stand guided by our coaches.
Rauzhi (27), joined Highlanders on a six-month loan deal from Bulawayo Chiefs. Meanwhile, 26-year-old Ndlovu signed a one-and-a-half-year contract to become part of the Bulawayo football giants after departing Sua Flamingoes FC of Botswana.
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