Rivers State Commissioner For Sports, Hon Fred Mbombo Igwe, has said that beginning from next football season the three state owned football teams, Sharks, Dolphins and Rivers Angels would not sign on players exceeding the national targeted  of 35 players in each team.

Hon Igwe stated this while briefing newsmen in his office, before the sign on fee cheques for players were handed our to the team managers.

According to him, before any players be signed, there must be contractual agreement, so that there would be no conflicts in terms of payment of sign on fees, salaries and allowances.

I must say that next season, signing of any players must be documented, because increase I am not here again, any commissioner will now what is happening as soon as he or she goes through the records, Igwe said.

He said for the purpose of transparency and avoidance of problems, the cheques were issue in individual names, saying” what we have done today is based on verbal claims.

“What mean by verbal claim is that there is no document to show or agreement written. In my background as a lawyer we called it verbal claim,” he said.   The commissioner revealed that the current number of players of Sharks is 43, Dolphins 37 and Rivers Angels 42.