Zimbabwean champions Gunners could be forced to withdraw from next month's Champions League tie with Egypt's Ahly due to their potential failure to fly to Cairo, Al-Youm al-Sabee reported on Tuesday. The debutants stunned Al-Ahly with a 1-0 round of 32 first-leg victory in Harare last Saturday, but are now struggling to make the trip for the return leg on April 2. "The tragedy about it all is that we are broke, as a team," Gunners' Chairman Cuthbert Chitima told the Herald. "We don't have the money to go to Cairo to fulfill the second leg of that tie against Al-Ahly and when you have no money it means that you can't fly. "It's a long and expensive trip and already, after the first leg, we were left with a huge debt that we need to service and I will be lying to the nation if I tell them that we have the money to go to Egypt. "We have been to all the relevant offices, in the Ministry of Education, Sport and Culture and the Ministry of Finance, to try and get help from the government, in the past few weeks, but nothing has been forthcoming and we have reached the end of the road right now. "It has been a beautiful campaign, and we have all enjoyed it and given the nation a big boost with our success, but it has come at a huge cost to us financially and we are a very young club and we can't afford it and that's the tragedy about our situation. "Obviously we are a large group and the airlines can't take risks banking on us because there is a big possibility that we might not get the funding to go and they will end up losing business.
