The Football Kenya Federation (FKF) has confirmed disbursement of Michael Olunga’s transfer compensation from Djurgardens IF to Tusker FC, Thika United, Gor Mahia and Liberty Academy.
Liberty Academy pockets the transfer fee while Tusker and Gor whom Olunga played for in his senior career get solidarity contribution according to FIFA regulations.
The reigning Kenyan premier league most valuable player made Europe breakthrough early in the year joining Swedish topflight Djurgaden IF after a successful one year with K’Ogalo whom he helped bag the league title thrice on the bounce.
“One of our priorities as an FA is to not only ensure that clubs generate income from gate collections, sponsorships and player transfers but also from unexploited revenue streams like the FIFA solidarity contribution mechanism, which allows clubs to be compensated by getting a share of an eventual transfer fee for developing players, this can be an additional revenue stream for grass-root clubs,” said FKF CEO Robert Muthomi.
“In this perspective, we have in the last six months or so engaged the Swedish FA and Olunga’s current club Djurgaardens IF, in an effort aimed at ensuring that all documented local clubs that Olunga played for and who appear in his FKF player passport benefit from the player’s transfer,” explained Muthomi.
The FKF CEO however pointed out that he was not at Liberty to discuss how much each club got from the solidarity payments saying:
“It is the prerogative of clubs to disclose how much they get from transfer related deals.”
The engineer as Olunga is famously known has hit the ground running taking the league by a storm, the left footed striker has eight goals in eight matches to his credit thus far despite experiencing a slow start early in the season.
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