MSC, Arambagh appeal for deferral
Casino-scandal-hit Mohammedan SC and Arambagh KS have requested to the Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) to extend the timeframe of the ongoing players’ transfers for the upcoming Bangladesh Premier League on financial grounds.
The window of the players’ transfers, which opened on October 1, is scheduled to come to an end on November 20.
Mohammedan asked the BFF to extend it till December 31 while Arambagh requested to extend it for three months on the backdrop of RAB’s raid on casinos at the two clubs last month. Mohammedan’s director-in-charge of Lokman Hossain Bhuiyan has been under arrest in casino connection while Arambagh president AKM Mominul Haque Shaeed is currently in Singapore.
“It is not possible for the club to take part in players’ transfers by paying remuneration of the players in current situation of the clubs and we request to extend it to December 31,” read a Mohammedan letter to the BFF signed by the club’s director Sarwar Hossain. The club submitted the letter on October 6.
“We can’t operate the club, which has been under lock and key since September 18. Besides, the club is in financial trouble. In these circumstances, if the transfer window is not extended for three months, it will not be possible for the club to take part in it,” read an Arambagh application signed by its general secretary Yakub Ali. It was sent to BFF on October 5.
BFF’s competitions manager Zaber Bin Taher Ansari said that they have already informed professional league committee chairman Abdus Salam Murshedy about the issue and a meeting will take a decision on it.
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