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Curtworth Masango Sports Reporter

DYNAMOS have written to the Premier Soccer League seeking engagement following squabbles pertaining their league match against log leaders Ngezi Platinum at the National Sports Stadium on Wednesday.

The Harare giants believe lack of coordination by the PSL secretariat affects the smooth flow of business.

There are allegations that the marketing office is assuming even security roles on match days, thereby compromising operations and the club’s relationships with its stakeholders.

In the letter to PSL chief executive Kennedy Ndebele from club chairman Moses Maunganidze highlighting clashes between the offices of marketing and competitions, Dynamos also requested the PSL leadership to designate a security officer.

“The offices of marketing and competitions seem to be operating in silos as evidenced by the poor communication between the two offices on key competition areas in respect of the Dynamos FC vs Ngezi FC match.

“I am reliably informed that in the above match’s preparations, the ICT and marketing office seemed to have encroached into the other offices, resulting in role confusion and conflict.

“The competitions office was muscled out of its space by the marketing office, which went offside in its operational parameters,” wrote Maunganidze.

He highlighted five key areas to Ndebele, including lack of co-ordination between members of the PSL secretariat, delays in delivering judgements by the Disciplinary Committee and the late release of fixtures which impacts heavily on clubs’ planning and budgets.

Maunganidze also highlighted that the unavailability of a designated security office was also not reflecting well with the stakeholders as the marketing manager has ended up taking the roles, causing serious problems on the ground.

“This duplicity is causing serious problems with our club where the Marketing Manager is now being alleged to be overzealous and being someone who does not possess the requisite safety and security background and it is only proper that the league engages a qualified safety and security officer.

“Currently the marketing manager has been reduced to a gate marshal who more often than not ends up harassing key stakeholders of the very clubs who constitute the elite league.

“We as a club take exception to having the marketing office manned by someone who proceeds to engage our club on issues outside his purview and later on reneges on such engagements as what happened in the above mentioned matter.

“I need to bring it to your attention that a whole marketing manager cannot expend his energy on wrestling with food and refreshments vendors at the gates, in the full glare of the media as has been recently witnessed and in all this he purports to be acting on your instructions.

“We, as a club, will only deal with the marketing manager on matters related to his purview otherwise we now fear being sold a dummy with dire consequences to our interests.” DeMbare also want PSL to attend to disciplinary cases swiftly as provided for in the league’s regulations. In most cases the judgements are released after more than two weeks, contrary to the statutes.

“The competitions office has a lackadaisical approach in respect of processing of disciplinary matters, some of which remain a mystery up to this day as to what be-came of their outcome.

“The competitions office sits on the disciplinary hearing rulings for reasons yet to be known. The PSL Rules and Regulations 34.7 and 34.8 are explicit on the prescribed 3 day time-lines for release of the judgements arising out of the Disciplinary proceedings.

“Such delays are an affront to the expedient conclusion of disciplinary matters. In all cases we have never received an explanation as to why there are delays each time our club is a litigant.” On fixtures, DeMbare are calling on PSL to release them timeously for planning purposes.

“The competitions office seems to be having challenges in having weekly fixtures released on time as the fixtures are sent out on Tuesday or Wednesday and in the absence of communication as to the challenges being encountered it really frustrates the club which is then made to finalise their budgets and logistics in a hurried manner as they would have received their fixtures late.

“We believe that the concerns raised herein are solvable so that the specific incumbents confirm the confidence and trust reposed upon them.

“Dynamos Football Club is ready for engagement with your office on how we can also create a reciprocal engagement between ourselves and the secretariat on what we could do to run our entities better in terms of governance, finance, marketing and business development, competitions, stakeholder management, communication and statutes.”

The PSL were yet to respond by last night.