Premier Soccer League Chairman Dr. Irvin Khoza has strongly defended critics around club status sale, adding that there are now strict measures that have been put in place.
Khoza announced on Wednesday that Betway had taken over from DStv as the new title sponsor of the league on a three-year deal valued at R900 million, should the partnership continue over the stipulated years.
The topic of selling and purchasing clubs’ status has come up more often than not, and Khoza was quick to defend how the PSL has gone about conducting that space.
“So, all the time we try our best to maintain the history and the tradition of that club, but there are no takers,” Khoza said at the launch of the Betway Premiership.
“Then we say to the sponsor, ‘You’re going to get a 16-team league’. Even going with a 15-team is an infringement. It can end up in termination. What must we do? what must we do?
“It’s a challenge we have. So, that’s why you make sure you know that we do best with what’s best and available as a solution.
“Right now, we’ve got a very, very, very strict you know requirement for licensing. We just finalized a proposition that we gonna share with the board of governors.
“We know the requirements is called you know payables and other infringements. You don’t comply, you’ll end up losing your status.
“It’s a drastic, drastic sanction but we cannot execute it now until the board of governors in November to vote on it,” Khoza added.
Moroka Swallows recently became the latest club to sell their status which was acquired by Marumo Gallants after approval from the PSL.
