Pay­ment of match fees to the coun­try's se­nior foot­ballers will be made on Thurs­day, one play­er has said.

The pay­ment will cov­er monies for World Cup Qual­i­fy­ing match­es against the Ba­hamas and St Kitts and Nevis which end­ed goal­less and 2-0, re­spec­tive­ly, in favour of the So­ca War­riors.

The play­ers will al­so be paid for the CON­CA­CAF Gold Cup Qual­i­fi­er against French Guiana which T&T won 8-7 in a penal­ty shoot-out, fol­low­ing a dogged 1-1 draw at the end of reg­u­la­tion time.

The play­ers have been at odds with the FI­FA-ap­point­ed Nor­mal­i­sa­tion Com­mit­tee over con­sis­tent late pay­ment of match fees. They are owed dif­fer­ing amounts of be­tween US$3,000 to US$8,000 for the six match­es, but be­hind the grin teeth of­fered by the play­ers up­on word of the pay­ment, the play­er, who did not want to be iden­ti­fied, said the play­ers are still dis­sat­is­fied.

"The Nor­mal­i­sa­tion Com­mit­tee reached out to us af­ter an in­ter­view by new­ly ap­point­ed coach An­gus Eve. They reached out stat­ing that three games will be paid for, which is the Ba­hamas match, St Kitts and Nevis and the French Guiana game which will be paid by this morn­ing (Thurs­day)," said the play­er, who on Sun­day, told Guardian Me­dia Sports that they were told that pay­ments would be made by Tues­day or Wednes­day this week. The Gold Cup Group match­es, how­ev­er, will still be out­stand­ing.

Ac­cord­ing to the play­er: "For the Gold Cup match­es, we had an agree­ment that when­ev­er they (nor­mal­i­sa­tion com­mit­tee) gets the group-stage funds, which would be around US$100, 000 from the CON­CA­CAF, they would be paid from that. So when they get the funds, they will have 14 days to pay it be­cause that is the arrange­ment we have.

"How­ev­er, play­ers are pret­ty much still dis­ap­point­ed be­cause they (NC) did not hold up to their end of the bar­gain. Al­though they wel­come the funds, they are pret­ty much still dis­ap­point­ed."

De­fend­er Radan­fah Abu Bakr, on Sun­day, al­so con­firmed that pay­ment of match-fees was to be paid this week, but he could not say ex­act­ly when. The play­ers were to re­ceive monies for the World Cup qual­i­fiers and Gold Cup with­in 60 and 30 days of tour­na­ments, re­spec­tive­ly, but were told by the nor­mal­i­sa­tion com­mit­tee that they were await­ing funds from the sport's world gov­ern­ing body to pay.

Mean­while, the play­er has joined the cho­rus of play­ers wel­com­ing the re­turn of Eve as the new coach, say­ing: "Def­i­nite­ly look­ing for­ward to work­ing with him. I'm very pleased for him that he got the job full-time. Work­ing un­der him for the Gold Cup was a very nice ex­pe­ri­ence. So know­ing An­gus, he is al­ready at it, try­ing to work out what­ev­er plans he has for Trinidad foot­ball to go for­ward.

"I do hope that he gets the nec­es­sary sup­port from the nor­mal­i­sa­tion com­mit­tee and al­so the pub­lic. Al­so hope that spon­sors can come on board and help to get the foot­ball to the lev­el we're sup­posed to be at for the longest while."