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Tse Putsoa players reportedly want at least half of the M100 000 that Matlama pocketed for winning the top-flight league.
But the club is reportedly not prepared to pay out that much.
Matabane, however, told the Sunday Express the club was yet to decide how much of the prize money would be given to the players.
He said reports that the players had disagreed with what the club was prepared to give them were not well-informed.
“I don’t know that there is any disagreement,” Matabane said on Friday.
“We need to put the record straight. We are still to meet with the players and (those stories) have been written without research.”
Although he would not say how much the players would get, Matabane appeared to suggest a huge chunk was likely to be reserved for Matlama’s participation in the African Champions League next year.
“Given the fact that we are going to play in an international competition, as the president I have said to the players that we should meet to discuss the way forward,” he said.
Football in Lesotho is played at an amateur level with teams run on shoe-string budgets financed by well-wishers.
Players do not have contracts and at best they only get paltry allowances and winning bonuses.
Matabane said they were trying to woo sponsors in a bid to make Matlama the first professional club in the country.
By 2014, according to the Mohale Declaration, Lesotho should have a professional league.
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