Pennant to quit Singapore club
Published on: Friday, October 28, 2016
SINGAPORE: Former Arsenal and Liverpool winger Jermaine Pennant is set to leave his Singapore football club just nine months after signing, the team's chairman said Friday.The 33-year-old has declined the Tampines Rovers' offer of a new deal with reduced terms."While the club could afford his wages, it would also send the wrong message to all the other players, who may have to take a pay cut, that one player is getting a 'super-scale salary' while the others have to take a pay cut," said Rovers chairman Krishna Ramachandra without giving financial details.
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"It would create a social injustice within the dressing room."The former bad boy of English football in January joined Rovers, five-time winners of the S-League, under a one-year contract.The Straits Times newspaper reported that the winger is believed to be earning around $20,000 a month and is understood to have received offers from his home country, as well as from other Southeast Asian clubs.Stay up-to-date by following Daily Express’s Telegram channel.
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But Ramachandra insisted there were no regrets with the decision to sign the winger. – AFP
