
Today... after 23 days of upsetting Malaysia Cup final on 7th of
November, as I heard some hearsay and rumors struck entire
Kelantanese by dubbing the final as "match fixing" or can be
safely named as "sold" the game away to Negri Sembilan by
not-so-concrete reasons of newly-crown of Tuanku Mukhriz
and a part of Khairy Jamaludin's factor in FAM, the Kelantan
FA (KAFA) through their Mr. President have come up to deny
all the accusations and defamations by saying that Kelantan
squad were earnestly for the final game despite outfought and
disappointing two-third majority Kelantan fans at National
Stadium Bukit Jalil. In response to the next 2010's treble final
prospect, Mr. President, Tan Sri Annuar Musa, or I dubbed
him as Kelantan's Roman Calderon (Real Madrid's President)
using Real Madrid-style of purchasing star players as usual by
making seven new signings for the 2010 Super League next
season. In contrary, for me, buying the 'Galacticos' do not
meant we are a good in tactical and physical as interprets by
Real Madrid in La Primera Liga (Spanish League) right now.

Kelantan have set an ambitious goal to win their first major
silverware in 2010 season and automatically be counted among
the Malaysia League elite teams. KAFA have almost everything in
place of administration, finance, players, team management and
the vociferous fan support to get the job done. They were major
expenses in return for that 2010 prospect by using this 'monsoon'
transfer windows, acquiring new Red Warriors. Among them
were four strikers – former international and Deutschland spell
and Strasbourg apprentice, Akmal Rizal Ahmad Rakhli (former
Kuala Muda Naza), Norsharul Idlan Talaha and Mohd Shakir
Shaari (victims of UPB-MyTeam's dissolution) and S. Chanthuru
(Penang's ace). The others were goalkeeper, Liverpool-born Syed
Adney Syed Hussein (eliminated by K.Rajagopal of SEA Games
squad) and Patrice Evra-like defenders Azizi Mat Rose (one of
Kuala Muda NAZA mass exodus) and S. Subramaniam (former
Perak captain). However, sadly to all-Kelantanese as they have
left out their phenomenon and seasoned goalkeeper Halim Napi
and the 39-year-old former international is among the notable
absentees in the 25-player squad.

Apart from Kelantan FA, others well-establish team still struggle
facing financial fiasco and in arrears wages. But, Kelantan FA
had announced their 25 players listed for the next 2010 season.
In retrospect, the outcomes of the several new signing apparent
-ly, the Kelantanese sports observers have come up with an idea
that the management and coaching staff were eagerly to pick up
loads of well-establish players rather than using skillful and
charismatic young lads who want to play for the "team" rather
than play for the "money" itself. These were some of recommend
-ed players by sport journalist and critics to land in Kelantan
next season, and these were players that Tan Sri Annuar Musa
has overlook instead of must-buy. They were, Perak's Razali
Umar Kandasamy, tough-young lads Farderin Kadir, and Paul
Scholes-mind mildfilder, Azi Shahril and pint-sized rocket,
K. Soley of Perlis. Even their names no-so-glittering like others
stars but, their criteria will fit the 2010 Kelantan winning team
prospect. Fortunately to Kelantan fans, they will see another
Halim Napi's gesture, who has been offered to become the
team’s assistant coach.

Taken into account, Kelantan failed in seeking their first major
silverware in Malaysian football since introduced 1921, suffered
the disappointment of two runner-up finishes last season. They
were beaten by Selangor in the FA Cup final and lost to Negri
Sembilan in the Malaysia Cup final. However, Kelantan would
continue to take advantage of their strong home fan support,
which saw them chalk up a 100% win record at the Sultan Mohd
IV Stadium in Kota Bharu last season. As a preparation toward
2010 season of Super League, Kelantan coach, B. Sathianathan
will start pre-season training as early of December and they
would be in Kota Bharu until Dec 7 before heading for Bangkok
to play in a quadrangular tournament. Beside that, KAFA with
the collaboration from Thailand Super League have arrange to
hold pre-season friendly with two establish team in Thai-league,
i.e FC Chonburi and BEC Tero Sasana. With 5 weeks left before
the 2010 season kicks off, Kelantan now have 25 players in their
ranks and hopefully not infected Real Madrid-Omen and will be
the favorites in the next season.

Be part of the winning team.