Kenyan international football player Michael Olunga got no share when he was moved to Qatari club Al-Duhail in a Ksh769 million transfer deal.
In a recent interview with Bonga na Jalas, Olunga explained that a player is not entitled to any money transfer deal.
“The club has invested in you and it needs to recoup the money like any other business,” he said.
Before his big move to Qatar, Olunga had been playing for Japan’s Kashiwa Reysol. He played for two seasons and scored 62 goals in 72 matches his club played.
He left in January this year. The Japan club had bought him for Ksh200 million and made a profit when they sold him to Al-Duhail for Ksh700 million.
“I played the season’s final game on January 4, and boarded a flight to Kenya but on the way I was called to Qatar and the next day I had signed the contract,” he intimated.
Olunga added that he opted out of his contract with Japan and did not negotiate his transfer fee.
His former club did not want to let him go, but Al Duhail triggered his buyout clause, and they had no choice.
Although players get nothing from the transfer fee paid by one club to the other, they get signing bonuses into millions of shillings.
The terms offered by the Qatar club were favourable for Olunga to the point that he decided to take it.
