Chippa United Chief Offers Reason For Not Selling Nwabali

Chippa United Chief Executive Officer Chippa Mpengesi says interested clubs offered peanuts for Stanley Nwabali.

Nwabali was linked with a number of clubs in South Africa, Europe and Asia after impressing for Nigeria at the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations in Cote d’Ivoire.

The 28-year-old is however still on the books of the Chili Boys.

The shot stopper signed a new three-year contract last month and was also named captain of the club.

“It was never about the price, there were two teams who were interested, one of them was AmaZulu, but they were offering peanuts,” Mpengesi told KickOff.

“There were talks that we had with Kaizer Chiefs before the end of the season. But then we saw Kaizer Chiefs signing another goalkeeper. For Kaizer Chiefs, we were even gonna give them, and the price was not even that high.

“We were more looking at the interest of the player you know, he was going to play for a big club, because I mean AmaZulu and Chippa are almost the same WhatsApp group, and you still get peanuts.”

“In their judgment, the Galaxy keeper is better than our keeper, which is something where I’m sitting, I dispute, but that’s water under the bridge. It has nothing to do with value, any offer we would have taken into consideration, but I mean what AmaZulu were offering was peanuts; they wanted us to give them Nwabali and Eva Nga for peanuts. That was a disrespect.”