Yanga offers stance on embattled midfielder

Salum has resorted to sticking to his decision to seek for termination of his contract with the club to be a free agent.

The midfielder, who as well turns out for Tanzania's senior national team, has already lost the case before the Tanzania Football Federation (TFF) Law and Status of Players Committee twice.

He again submitted a letter to TFF demanding the termination of his contract on April 12, the matter was heard before being postponed until the beginning of May.

Patrick said: "We are not fighting against Feisal, we want to ensure the procedure is followed. If we allow Feisal to leave in this way, one day we will encounter the same problem because another player will wake up one morning and say he is not happy and will ask to leave."

The Yanga official noted: "This is hooliganism that should not be allowed in football. There are official ways (for a player) to break the contract and they are known."

"We want the rules of football to be controlled, not to allow those who violate the rule by spending money," the official pointed out.

"If they allow this, I'm sure before the end of the season someone with money will show up and pay them well and this is not just for Yanga, all clubs might face the same consequence."

"We want the rules and procedures to be followed, we cannot allow him to leave arbitrarily even though we are not clinging to him."

"If he follows the procedure we will allow him to leave because Yanga is bigger than anyone," the lawyer noted.

Despite missing several league games, Salum was called up for the national team's duty on double duels against Uganda's Cranes for the 2023 AFCON Qualifiers' Group F.

Salum came from the bench when Taifa Stars commanded a 1-0 win over Uganda in the AFCON Qualifiers’ match played in Ismailia, Egypt.

He was later in the national team which went down 1-0 to Uganda in Dar es Salaam where local fans still showed trust in him, cheering him whenever he was in possession.