FORMER Premier Soccer League (PSL) champions Highlanders have been hit by a player revolt that has seen the team losing two matches in a row.

According to well placed sources within Highlanders, the players are owed money for their Confederations Cup tie against El Merreck of Sudan.

Bosso bowed out of the competition after losing 1-5 on aggregate.

The source said the executive has been promising to pay the players in forex, but the players are still to receive anything.

“Morale is at its lowest ebb at Highlanders. The players are owed billions of dollars and they do not know when they will get it. The money is supposed to be paid in foreign currency, but the executive is saying they are failing to get it from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ).”

“This has angered the players who now feel shortchanged. I am sure the team is going to lose more matches if the issue is not addressed quickly,” said the source.

Efforts to get a comment from the Bosso executive were fruitless as club chairman Ernest “Maphepha” Sibanda is away on national duty with the senior national team.

Highlanders failed to progress beyond the second round of the Confederations Cup after falling to Sudan’s El Merreck three weeks ago.

They followed up this performance with an identical 1-2 loss to Monomotapa at their Babourfields fortress.

Frustration in the Highlanders camp began to show in their 1-2 loss to Gunners at Gwanzura Stadium last weekend.

The players, led by their coach Methembe “Mayor” Ndlovu walked off the pitch in protest of Gunners’ second goal, which they argued was scored from an offside position.

The players and the coach even had the temerity to ignore Sibanda’s appeals for them to continue with the match.

The team risk a huge fine and losing the match on a 3-0 score line as punishment when the PSL disciplinary committee rules over the match.

The Bosso executive has to do something with regards to the players’ bonuses before they lose more matches as that would dent their chances of regaining the championship which was won by arch-rivals Dynamos last season.

The team also risk losing free scoring striker Cuthbert Malajila whose contract expires at the end of this month.

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