{"id":316657,"date":"2016-01-29T13:35:47","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T13:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/ashgold-cash-dearth-stifled-player-purchase\/"},"modified":"2016-01-29T13:35:47","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T13:35:47","slug":"ashgold-cash-dearth-stifled-player-purchase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2016\/01\/29\/ashgold-cash-dearth-stifled-player-purchase\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashgold: Cash dearth stifled player purchase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\" readability=\"52.570120206068\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Thursday, 28 January 2016<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>classfmonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2016-01-28<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Ashgold-Cash-dearth-stifled-player-purchase.295\" alt=\"Coach Bashir Hayford\" title=\"Coach Bashir Hayford\" width=\"295\" height=\"197\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Bashiru Hayford<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Coach of Ashantigold Football Club Bashir Hayford has said the club could not purchase the players they had targeted due to financial difficulties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe players we initially pencilled down, because of that financial issue we couldn\u2019t get them, so, we had to go in for other new ones. It\u2019s all about money. If you are not ready with cash, you cannot get those boys, but the boys we have now are OK,\u201d he told Class Sports\u2019 Hussein Hassan in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>Although Ashgold admitted they are cash-strapped, they say their financial crisis is being blown out of proportion.<\/p>\n<p>Reports said the financiers of the club, AngloGold Ashanti, were not forthcoming in releasing cash to fund player recruitment and preparations for their clash against MO Bejaia on 14 February.<\/p>\n<p>Bashir Hayford told Class Sports his boys were worried when news broke that the club was facing financial difficulties, but are now settled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell at the moment I think the boys are now settled. It worried them a little, but now they have settled and, so, we don\u2019t talk about finances because it\u2019s a management issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPsychologically, some of them feel their commitment has not been fulfilled, so, sometimes they feel dejected, so, I\u2019m talking to them&#8230;\u2026honestly it affected them a little but for the playing body I don\u2019t think it is a worry,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Ashgold will take on MO Bejaia in the CAF Champions League preliminary stage at the Obuasi Len Clay Sports Stadium on Valentine\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 4 updated by: 28 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Sports News of Thursday, 28 January 2016 Source: classfmonline.com 2016-01-28 Bashiru Hayford Coach of Ashantigold Football Club Bashir Hayford has said the club could not purchase the players they had targeted due to financial difficulties. \u201cThe players we initially pencilled down, because of that financial issue we couldn\u2019t get them, so, we had to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - 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