Marumo Gallants chairman Abram Sello has addressed rumours that the club is set to be permanently relocated to Bloemfontein.
Earlier this week, a video emerged online from a purported Bloemfontein Celtic supporters meeting in which it was alleged that Marumo Gallants had made a decision to relocate the club to Bloemfontein for the remainder of the campaign before rebranding the team in style related to that of the now-defunct Celtic.
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The claim was made by way of a letter, alleged to have come from Gallants chairman Abram Sello, which reportedly read as follows:
"We wish to hereby confirm our solid and firm intentions to relocate our DStv Premiership team to your city and province as supported by the Free State provincial government in among others the following manner:
1. Relocating the entire team to be based permanently in Bloemfontein;
2. Once the legal and procedural procedures are concluded, play the remainder of our 2022/23 season matches in Bloemfontein;
3. Rebrand the team to a Celtic-related name for the 20223/24 DStv Premiership season;
4. We invite the Celtic family and the people of the Free State and Bloemfontein to embrace this dream and walk the road with us.
Gallants have since issued a non-committal response to the claims and insisted that any further correspondence would come directly from the club rather than any third party.
"Mr. Abram Sello would like to confirm that he has not written/dispatched any letter or statement regarding the future of the club, nor has he authorised any other person to speak on his behalf," the club said in a statement on Thursday. "Marumo Gallants will issue official updates and statement in due course."