Clubs Scramble over Omega


By Wleh Bedell

Due to his virtuoso form this season two of Serbia’s leading clubs, Partizan and Crvena Zvezda are in a scramble for ‘Liberia’s Rio Ferdinand’, Omega Alamadine Roberts.

The 22 year old who is in red hot vein of form with top flight club FK Sloboda has caught the eyes of the country’s two accomplished clubs that have the rich credentials of participating in Europe’s elite club competitions like the UEFA champions league and the EUROPA.

Further reports have it that the player’s contract with his current club expires during the summer with Sloboda keen to sign a new deal with him, but his representatives are very much unhappy with the terms and conditions of the proposed new signing saying “they want to get him on a cheap which we are not willing to do”.

According to the management that owns the player, the club intends signing a new deal with him and then sells him to one of the top clubs that are in the hunt to lure him over.

 They maintain that if the deal cannot go through and there are no means of discussing with Partisan and the others they will have no alternative but to move the intelligent rearguard in another European country as they say “we have offers from other countries in Europe”.

With three matches to the end of the season, Omega’s club are sixth in the Super Liga . the player who have had stints in the Ivory Coast, Congo Brazzaville, Cameroon and Mali before moving to Serbia has taken the league by storm in the Eastern European country as his club’s coach Ljubija Stamenkovic describes him as “Mr. Efficient”. With one international cap against the Amavubis of Rwanda in a 2008 African Nations Cup qualifier, the towering center back has taken his game to another level and is indeed one of the best foreign players in that part of the world.