‘Chiefs should be awarded PSL title’ – top football agent

Kaizer Chiefs should be crowned as 2019/20 Absa Premiership champions should the league not resume in time, according to top Nigerian football agent Mohammed Lawal.

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The Glamour Boys have been at the summit of the league standings since the current campaign got underway, but their lead has since come under heavy threat of late following defeats to Maritzburg United and AmaZulu before football was suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic. Chiefs are now just four points ahead of defending champions Mamelodi Sundowns, who have a game in hand.

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Lawal, who is based in Mzansi, and has been responsible for bringing Nigerian players such as Ejike Uzoenyi to Sundowns and James Okwuosa to Chippa United in Mzansi, believes that Amakhosi should be outright champions should the league end prematurely.

“In my opinion, maybe the league will have to be scratched if we get to the end of May without having it re-started. I think they will have to award the league to the team that is number one – Kaizer Chiefs,” Lawal is quoted as saying by Soccer Laduma.

“Obviously, regarding this topic, everybody will have different opinions based on their own interests. But if you are neutral like I am here, it can’t be difficult to see and agree that Chiefs would be the deserving winners of the title, because they have been on top of the log for a long time and on merit.”

“Let’s say if the league has to end in September or October, football will be affected. The calendar of the PSL would have to change. We would see a situation where the league would have to start in January or February.

“For some players their contracts are supposed to end in June, what’s going to happen to them? There will be consequences but there should be ways to find the balance. It’s a disaster that nobody expected or planned for,” said Lawal.