Snl24 | Chiefs’ financial pain over Dolly
Keagan Dolly leaves Kaizer Chiefs as the most expensive contract that the club has ever had with a player.
Kaizer Chiefs will this week close the chapter of having had Keagan Dolly under contract feeling they were done a ‘stick up’ after getting little return on investment.
Dolly will head for the exit having been the most expensive contract that Chiefs have ever had with a player.
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Such was the heavy weight of Dolly’s stay at Chiefs that it cost the club more than R20 million as he was amongst the select few that had contracts stretching over a reported R7 million per year.
The lad from Westbury spent three years with Amakhosi and joins Khama Billiat and Leonardo Castro in the list of expensive players that didn’t live up to matching their earnings before being allowed to leave upon the expiry of their contracts.
What will hurt Chiefs is that Dolly’s package has been their biggest expenditure on a single contract ever and yet didn’t give them value for money.
There has never been a player at Chiefs whose three-year deal has been to the value of what Dolly had at the club.
In his last season, he featured in only eight matches due to injury-related issues.
One assist, no goal, one full shift of 90 minutes, and a mere 15% matchday contribution from a top earner is disastrous regardless of the circumstances.
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So, when the Soweto giants did the financial calculations against matchday contribution for what they got from the attacker based on what they spent on him, it piled up the stress.
Dolly will get his last bank notification from Chiefs on Friday, the date on which the club pays salaries.
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