Medeama goalkeeper Muntari Tagoe is demanding for enhanced remuneration for local players following a shocking disparity in local footballers’ pay.
The financial struggles of local footballers earning is at a shocking poverty levels in Ghana, leading to massive exodus of players.
Players are owed salaries for several months while their contracts are flouted with impunity amid a growing financial crisis which has rocked domestic clubs.
Medeama goalkeeper Muntari Tagoe is urging club owners to show local players with respect and pay them the salaries they deserve.
“If Ghanaians want to have a very good Ghana Premier League season in the upcoming 2015/2016 then we the local players must be paid well with good conditions of services” he told sportsworldghana
“The way some of us are being treated in our various teams by the club owners are not professional at all.
“You pay us this chicken change as salary and yet you want us to kill ourselves for your glory.
“This is what we have chosen as a career and so we must also benefit from it.
“It’s high time they fight for us if they really want a good performance.”
The struggles of many Ghanaian players are overshadowed by the presence of a few high profile foreign-based footballers in the country.
By Patrick Akoto, follow on twitter@Patakoto1