Sundowns are making some serious power plays as the news season approaches.

Sundowns are making some serious power plays as the news season approaches.

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According to reports, Sundowns could be set to welcome Chilean midfield superstar Marcelo Allende to Chloorkop.

Sundowns are making some serious power plays as the news season approaches.

Sundowns are making some serious power plays as the news season approaches.

So far, Sundowns had made a couple of big ‘official’ signings, with Sipho Mbule recruited recently, while it can’t be forgotten that it was during the January transfer window that the Brazilians secured the services of Abubeker Nassir from Ethiopian Coffee after undergoing a successful trial.

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Other recent reports had linked Sundowns with talented Moroccan defender Abdelmounaim Boutouil, and this has now been confirmed by his parent club SCC Mohammedia.

It’s also been confirmed by SuperSport United that Bafana keeper Ronwen Williams is officially set to join Sundowns as well.

In a notable report by KickOff.com, Chilean midfield sensation Marcelo Allende is now also set to move to the DStv Premiership champions on a three-year deal from Montevideo City Torque. Allende has joined the Uruguayan club on a free transfer in January 2020.

“In order to get him out of the club belonging to the City Football Group, Mamelodi Sundowns had to pay three million dollars, an extremely important figure for the charruas, who in 2020 transferred to the club on a free deal,” reads part of a report in Chilean publication Encancha.

“After completing his move to Magallanes, the player was released and ended up signing in the Uruguayan capital at zero cost.”

Meanwhile, Sundowns have also recently been boosted by the contract extension of superstar striker Peter Shalulile, who had a remarkable 2021-22 season where he scored a whopping 30 goals across all competitions.

In doing so, Shalulile became only the second player to score 30 goals in a single season in the PSL era after Collins Mbesuma (35) in the 2004-05 campaign.

Shalulile capped off a memorable 2021/22 campaign by winning the PSL Footballer of the Season and DStv Premiership Players’ Player of the Season awards.

Although the dynamic forward is a player who understandably would have been in high demand, he has committed his long-term future to Sundowns.

“We are delighted to announce our Namibian hitman Peter Shalulile has signed a 5-year contract extension with The Brazilians!” a social media post from Sundowns stated on Sunday.

“More goals, more celebrations, more records, more Shalulile.”

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Sundowns are preparing for another big season

Mamelodi Sundowns returned to pre-season training at the beginning of the month ahead of a busy month of preparation for the upcoming 2022/23 campaign.

After a relentless season fighting on all fronts until the very end, Bafana Ba Style officially went on holiday after their parade in Tshwane for four weeks. Masandawana reported back to Chloorkop on July 1, for medical tests ahead of the new season. The following Monday, players and the technical team stepped up to the field to have their first field session in full swing and proceeded to train for a week at their home facilities. 

“The first week of our Pre-season [included] intense testing. The work that is done by not just our medical department but also from the conditioning department in assessing the players’ physiology and the physical readiness of the players to take part in full team training, we were very satisfied with that and the information that we received was very good,” briefly explained The Brazilians’ co-coach, Rulani Mokwena.

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Downs made their way to Royal Marang in Rustenburg in their next phase of pre-season preparations which will begin on August 6, with the Tshwane derby in the MTN8.

“The camp in Marang gives us a lot of possibilities, we are not people that train in isolation or train different elements or factors that contribute to the performance. From day one already we were working with the physical aspects, but already introducing a new tactical and technical concept that we’d like to work on and to improve,” added Mokwena.

“These were ideas that we had already from last season, there were things that we felt we had the condition to be better at, but maybe we didn’t have the possibility. Now that we have a bit of time to train and to prepare the team, we focus a lot more on the tactical aspects and try to make sure that we prepare the team in that regard because during the season we don’t have the time to prepare and train.”

Masandawana have a pre-season exhibition match against Richards Bay FC in the semi-final of the annual Prince Mangosuthu Legacy Cup taking place in KwaZulu-Natal on Saturday, July 23.