The Defending Kenyan Premier League Champions, Gor Mahia are back in the CAF Confederations Cup. The tournament is slated to begin in the second week of September this year. Apparently, Gor Mahia had been barred off from the competition due to unsettled wages with former coach, Steve Pollack. Fortunately, this has been dealt with since Gor Mahia's Sports Director Lordvic Aduda, confirmed that the club had entered a payment agreement with Pollack, and even paid him an advance Ksh 700,000 with an agreement for further monthly payments.
Pollack was told by FIFA to confirm the authenticity of the agreement as of July 29 lest the sanctions be lifted and according to Aduda, FIFA confirmed the existence of the agreement and so far they are in contention for the continental second tier tournament. “FIFA wanted us either to pay in full or agree on the payment mode and we proved to them that we had made an initial payment to Pollack and agreed on a monthly payment,’’ said Aduda.
FIFA had written to Gor through CAF to settle or agree with Pollack on how he would get his dues before they could be allowed to participate in the CAF Confederations Cup. “Even CAF has not remitted what we are entitled for reaching the second round of last season’s CAF Champions League preliminaries. We were to be paid close to Sh. 6 million but some fines imposed on our players and the like means we don’t actually know how much CAF will remit to us,’’ added Aduda.
Englishman, Steve Pollack joined Gor Mahia back in August, 2019 and was signed a two year contract after the resignation of Hassan Oktay.