Are the players or the coaching staff a problem at Sundowns?

Mmasekepe Matsebane

So they have started.

Same story, difference cast or should I call it same difference, same changes?

There goes my battle with the queen’s language because of them.

Well, one must be wondering who started what, where, them, right?

It’s Mamelodi Sundowns. They have signed six players already. 

Black Leopards trio of Rodney Ramagalela, Raymond Monama and Tiyani Mabunda, as well as Moroka Swallows’ Sibusiso Khumalo, Bryce Moon and Rashid Sumaila are the new additions to the overpaid, underperforming Sundowns family.

Brand New: Mamelodi Sundowns have signed Rodney Ramagalela, Raymond Monama and Tiyani Mabunda.

It is now believed that Kennedy Mweene and Khama Billiat are on the way. 

This sums up my worries that many, if not most of the coaches that go to Sundowns are not as good as they are made out to be, or they are just cry babies who sign contracts with reasons well in place for when they finally stuff up and get exposed.

Can't Stand Him?: Sundowns coach Pitso Mosimane used to call Katlego Mphela the best striker in South Africa.

When Pitso Mosimane took over at Sundowns, there was no question about the quality in the team, but only a bit of motivation to have the players firing again was all that was needed.

Mind you, this is the same team that smacked Kaizer Chiefs 4-0 in the MTN 8 under former Dutch great Johan Neeskens.

Most of the players were new, bought in the last transfer window.

Instead of showing that he is good, instead of Mosimane proving to Sundowns that he has what he takes, he also decided to go on his own shopping spree.

One even asks if Sundowns, or Pitso, knows what is needed there. I am tempted to believe no one knows. 

The new players will not bring anything different to the team. This is Pitso’s way of justifying his disastrous start to his Sundowns career. 

It is clear with the quality…errm quantity in the team that Sundowns could have made it to the top eight, but Pitso failed.

Hlompho Kekana, Eleazar Rodgers, Richard Henyekane, Punch Masenamela, Teko Modise, Lebogang Mokoena, Katlego Mphela, Edward Manqele and Thamsanqa Sangweni got called up to the national team by Pitso Mosimane. 

Clearly, if this players were good enough to be called to represent the national team by a certain coach, then they should be good enough to beat anyone and it would be obvious to think that the coach who called them to the national team would actually want to buy them for his team, right? 

I Can't get In It: It seems Katlego Mphela find his way better between the goal posts that his shots do.

Wrong! Not with Mosimane and clearly not with Sundowns.

That is the problem about football at Sundowns and the problem with coaches who worked there in particular. 

Sundowns bought Mumuni Abubakar and Emmanuel Baffour amid much fanfare. They were billed to be the next Roger Feutmbas and Raphael Chuckus of this world, but hey, they never really took off.

Now, another foreign player, Rashid Sumaila has been signed and called all sorts of names. His tenure at Sundowns will be a success if he can manage five appearances.

Clearly, Pitso Mosimane, Trott Moloto, or anyone who signs players at Sundowns, does not know what they want.

Another Pitso Favourite: Teko Modise did no wrong in the eyes of Mosimane, but the midfield kingpin can't do much to make things easier for Mosimane.

It makes me qualify the notion that Sundowns kills careers as true and coming to think of it, not only is it true, there are facts to back it up too.

It goes without saying that these careers will be dead sooner than Motsepe can finish refurbishing HM Pitjie Stadium.

Let’s start in defence. If Mweene indeed comes, then Dennis Onyango, Calvin Marlin and Thela Ngobeni will be history. In defense, Abel Mabaso, Buhle Mkhwanazi, Doctor Mampuru are headed that way. In midfield, Thami Sangweni, Jabulani Shongwe, Musa Nyatama, new signings Mabunda and Monama are headed for a Papi Zothwane kind of finish. Then there is Ramagalela, Rodgers, Manqele, Henyekane who are headed for the Diyo Sibisi, Lungisani  Ndlela and Sandile Ndlovu type of finale.

Buying new players will not do Sund

owns any good and as a matter of fact, it is a waste of Motsepe’s millions and it destroys careers that are good enough to cut it in Europe.

The day Motsepe hires a coach who actually knows how to make players play well is the day more careers will improve and Sundowns will be a force again.

Think about it, what is the use of a complete overhaul when you have fantastic players and a coach who claims to be the best in the country? When you have a striker who has been proclaimed by the very same coach as the best thing we have in the country?

Sundowns is a team run by retards suffering from schizophrenia and that will hold back the team’s development until Motsepe closes his cheque book and get a coach who is willing to work and prove himself with the players who are available.

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