MFPA assisting players over unpaid wages




MFPA assisting players over unpaid wages

7th January 2022

MFPA assisting players over unpaid wages

In light of ongoing reports, the MFPA can confirm that it has been assisting several players who are owed unpaid wages by Marsa FC. Once again, the MFPA emphasises the urgent need for an overhaul of a system that regrettably allows these episodes to happen often. There need to be protocols in place to ensure that clubs have the financial ability and stability to pay the amounts promised in employment contracts.

It is also crucial that clubs settle all pending payments from the preceding season before being allowed to enter into new contracts.
Moreover, to further complicate matters, once a club is found guilty, it is prohibited from effecting any transfer of players, meaning they can neither acquire nor release players. This has the adverse effect of punishing the very players whose contract has been breached, preventing them from potentially joining a new club.

This situation impedes players from playing football, their livelihood, until the prohibition measures are lifted. This could be months. The current prohibition rules should be amended as soon as possible to prevent clubs from entering into new financial commitments, whilst allowing players whose contacts have been seriously breached to be released.

While the MFPA understands that this measure is intended as a deterrent, unfortunately, its current structure is penalising the very players whose contract has been breached.