Ex-Marumo Gallants coach Dylan Kerr has opened up on the bonus dispute between the club and its former players, which arose after the club reached the semi-finals of the CAF Confederation Cup.
Gallants players who were on the 2022/23 roster have taken the club to the PSL Dispute Resolution Chamber demanding bonuses from the Limpopo-based outfit, who reportedly pocked R14 million for reaching the CAF Confederation Cup semi-finals.
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The PSL DRC has reportedly ruled that Bahlabane Ba Ntwa pay the players, many of whom have since left the club, monies due in the form of bonuses allegedly promised after reaching the last four of the continental tournament that season.
Kerr, who guided the team to those unprecedented lofty heights, says unlike the players, he, as a matter of principle, does not want any bonus from club chairman Abram Sello.
The former Moroka Swallows coach, speaking exclusively to this website, says it does not sit well with him to be paid a bonus for reaching only the semi-finals, instead of at least the final.
"It has nothing to do with me. My thought on that was, as it were at the time, no club I've ever worked for [I] expect a bonus for getting to the semi-final," Kerr told KickOff.
"It doesn't sit right with me. You get to the semi-final, you're paid by the club. You get to the final, it's up to the chairman to give you a bonus, it's his club.
"If you win the final, brilliant, then the chairman should give you a bonus, because you won him X amount of money," he explained.
The former Arcadia Shepherds winger, currently based in England, was part of a backroom staff that helped Wrexham gain promotion to League One.
Kerr also suggested that players demanding bonuses at such a crucial stage of the tournament was the reason they could not get to the final and ultimately being relegated from the DStv Premiership.
"But to get to the final, give 100 percent to win that game (semi-final) and unfortunately, in the semi-final second leg they [Gallants players] demanded bonuses from the chairman, they refused to play."
"Imagine Marumo Gallants forfeiting that game, they put it at risk as soon as they switched off.
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"I thought we would have won the semi-final and I know we would have won the final, but it wasn't to be," he said.
"The players decided they want to put themselves first and not the club by going on strike before the CAF game and two days later under-perform in the biggest game of their lives to keep the team in the league," Kerr added.
Gallants were knocked out in the semi-finals by Young Africans, who won 4-1 on aggregate.