Our club had to make this statement to the public and the basketball community due to the unrealistic and inconsistent posts of our player Caitlin Mikayla Jenkins on social media recently.
Our foreign player Caitlin Mikayla Jenkins was transferred on 10.01.2022 to contribute to our team. According to the contract, a fully equipped private flat, home internet, transportation and Turkish GSM line were provided to him. The player’s salary for January 2022 has been paid, however, many non-contractual requests have been fulfilled.
CM Jenkins has been causing problems to our team players and technical personnel since the day he came to our country. CMJenkins is constantly late for training, causing his teammates to be late for team training, who brought him from his home to training in a private vehicle. On the other hand, he preferred to go to shopping centers instead of coming to the trainings regularly, and after the training he punched the personal car of his teammate who took him home.
CM Jenkins never fully listened to the tactics given by the technical committee, preferring to wear headphones or deal with his phone during the training sessions. In addition, at the end of a match we played recently, he behaved disrespectfully to the opposing team, when the coach wanted to take him out of the game as a tactic, he resisted not to leave the game, came to the side on the referee’s warning, preferred not to sit on the team bench when he left the game, preferred to go to the locker room, and then came back to the hall by kicking the hall doors. . In the same match, although the coach wanted to take him back to the game, he refused to enter the game. After the last match we played, the incidents that occurred as a result of insulting and swearing at our players and our technical staff were brought to court and a legal process was initiated by our club against CM Jenkins.
All of the things mentioned here were experienced in front of dozens of witnesses and the events were recorded. Now, our club is being tried to be smeared by CM Jenkins via social media.
Despite all that has happened, our club is trying to make an agreement with CM Jenkins in good faith through his manager. On the other hand, our club will use its legal rights to the fullest if CM Jenkins does not stop his lies on social media and therefore an agreement cannot be reached with him.
As a 76-year-old sports club, we will not allow a disrespectful, liar and unstable person with a past full of crimes to tarnish our club and Turkish sports, in line with the information we gained after being transferred to our club.’
