DStv Premiership side AmaZulu have confirmed the signings of six new players ahead of the upcoming season. Photo: Darren Stewart/Gallo Images
AmaZulu boss backtracking on Kaizer Chiefs player’s comment?
Amazulu chairman Sandile Zungu seems to have backtracked on his comments on Kaizer Chiefs players, according to his latest interview.
DStv Premiership side AmaZulu have confirmed the signings of six new players ahead of the upcoming season. Photo: Darren Stewart/Gallo Images
Amazulu chairman Sandile Zungu seems to have backtracked on his comments on Kaizer Chiefs players, according to his latest interview.
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Amazulu and Kaizer Chiefs were involved in what seemed like a heated transfer saga as Amakhosi tried to lure Siyethemba Sithebe six months earlier.
Amazulu rejected player swap
Chiefs’ efforts had become so intense towards the end of the January transfer window, that they reportedly offered Amazulu two players in exchange for Sithebe.
Amazulu then turned those two players down very publicly, with that going on to cause a big stir with regards to South African football supporters on social media. The stir came from the fact that Amazulu chairman Sandile Zungu not only turned the Chiefs players down, but called them “rejects”.
Zungu looks to clarify his comments.
Speaking to Marawa Sports Worldwide podcast, however, Zungu seems to be backtracking from his comment of calling Chiefs players rejects. Well either that or he is just backtracking from a seemingly harsh choice of words.
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“Other teams know, we’ve enquired about their players and they’ve told us ‘no’, so they are cold to our players, they are not for sale, then we move on. But when we are [offered] two players who haven’t really played consistently in the team and therefor they are deemed surplus to requirements and they are being disposed to us – you can use any word you want.” Said Zungu.
The Amazulu chairman then expresses his regret at calling Chiefs players rejects.
Shows signs of regret
“To describe them as rejects quite frankly is regrettable because I’d never want anybody described as such, but they were surplus to the other team’s needs. It’s like saying ‘let me take your wife, I’ll give you my wives’.” concluded Zungu
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It seems as if Zungu has already started a war with the Chiefs supporters, if not Chiefs officials themselves. Will these comments be enough to appease the situation regarding the relations between these two clubs? Or are the bridges already burnt?
