Ghanaian footballer, Mohammed Anas, has responded to claims that his South African club, TS Galaxy, has terminated his contract because he was a “bad luck” to the club.
Narrating how he got information about the reports, Anas disclosed that a friend from Ghana called him and questioned him about being cursed. To Anas, it came as a surprise because he is not on social media. Therefore, he called his wife to check the validity of the information he received from his friend in Ghana. To Anas’s dismay, the information his friend sought from him was true.
According to Anas, he then said to himself, “if TS Galaxy is telling me that I’m cursed, was I the only player playing for a team that was relegated? No. Is it because I’m a foreigner?”.
Anas, further speaking, noted that if he is indeed a “bad luck” as his teammates claimed, then they should have been a “brother’s keeper” and assisted him to solve the issue instead of relegating him from the club.
Anas, who is currently distressed over the issue, said he doesn’t know why people are saying such things about him. He also mentioned that he is losing his job because of this issue and that he is “scared”. He questioned if teams are going to ever sign him.
“I don’t know if I should stop playing football. What other job do I know? Football is what God gave me”.
Mohammed Anas
Anas then detailed the events that actually led to his release from the team, which included not seeing eye to eye with the new TS Galaxy coach.
“After hearing I was going to be released, I confronted the new coach. Even he couldn’t give me the reason why I was leaving. When this coach came, they put me as a winger. I was desperate and even before the Maritzburg United match, I was still working hard. I trained hard that week. But then they told me we don’t want you anymore”.
Mohammed Anas
Anas disclosed he was later told that “We will give your agent a call”, and that was the end of the issue.
Meanwhile, TS Galaxy has denied the claims that Mohammed was released because of bringing “bad luck”. The club posited that after an assessment by the technical team, they felt the services of Mohammed Anas will not be needed going forward. A mutual agreement was reached between the two parties and they parted ways, according to the club.
It was claimed in several reports yesterday, 8th November 2021 that Anas’ former teammates at TS Galaxy were complaining that the Ghanaian brought bad luck with him to the camp. Per reports, Anas’ teammates had examined his past and observed that the clubs that he has played for previously which include Leopards, Maritzburg United, and Free State Stars had either been relegated from the DStv Premiership or escaped relegation by the smallest of margins.
Anas only joined TS Galaxy at the start of this season in August this year after he was relegated from Black Leopards.
It can be recalled that in 2017, a post-match interview by Anas went viral after he thanked his wife and ‘girlfriend’. He, however, denied being unfaithful, saying, “My family knows that I call my daughter my girlfriend. That’s what I was talking about. I don’t have a girlfriend”.
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