The fourth strike of the Mogren footballers this season due to unpaid wages has entered the fourth day, so we can already talk about a record suspension of the work of one team for eight years of first league football in independent Montenegro.
12 salaries are owed
While the leaders of the Municipality of Budva, which owns the club, are currently dealing with the special prosecutor's office, the players are adamant in their intention not to return to the field until there is at least some indication that part of the debt will be remedied.
And the situation is devastating, because some footballers are owed up to 12 salaries.
"It's between the player and the club, I perform my duties, I schedule training, I show up at the scheduled time, but I don't find anyone there this week," says Mogren coach Brano Milačić, who emphasizes that the football players lose the most.
"Apart from the situation in the club, the players are at the biggest loss. There is nothing worse for a player than not training for a whole week".
It is clear that the situation in Montenegrin club football mirrors the situation in the country, but the business of FK Mogren in recent years is a textbook example of how it should not be done. For the third time since 2008, the Budva players start the season by creating a "dream team", the club's leaders sign contracts with the players that they cannot or do not want to fulfill later. The epilogue is a bunch of unpaid and disgruntled football players, and a line in front of the FSCG Arbitration Commission.
Neither the club nor the team
"First we create a team, then a club," said Mogren in 2009.
Five years later, Budva has neither a club nor a team. They don't even have a stadium. They won two championship titles and one Cup, but the trophies did not bring anything.
The business of FK Mogren in recent years is a textbook example of how it should not be done
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