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Sundowns star Mbule reveals new targets for next season
Mamelodi Sundowns midfielder Sipho Mbule has reflected on his debut season in Tshwane and revealed his targets for the next term.
Sipho Mbule Image Source: (@SiphoMbule/Instagram)
After bagging his first DStv Premiership gold medal with Mamelodi Sundowns, midfielder Sipho Mbule has revealed his new targets ahead of the new season.
Mbule joined Sundowns from SuperSport United just before the start of the 2022/23 campaign and now wants to pull up his socks and score more goals.
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Apart from finding the back of the net, Mbule wants to provide more assists under coach Rulani Mokwena as they look to defend their league title.
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The Free State-born midfielder is known for having silky touches in the heart of the park and thanked his teammates for ensuring he settled well at Chloorkop.
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Despite their failure to defend the MTN8 and Nedbank Cups, the 25-year-old believes they had a good season and downplayed their CAF Champions League semi-final loss.
“In the coming season, I need to score more goals, and be involved more, because at Sundowns we always have the ball,” Mbule told the club’s media team.
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“I need to improve on being more involved in the games, make those assists, and score goals for the team. As a team, we’ve been doing well. The thing that was missing was managing the game, but we are going to improve on that.
“I knew when I came here it’s not going to be easy because everyone at the club is quality. There are a lot of good players and I also thought it means I’m good enough and that’s why I’m here and competing with the best of the best.”
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Mbule joined Sundowns and reunited with ex-SuperSport teammates in the form of Ronwen Williams, Teboho Mokoena, and Aubrey Modiba – he said they helped him to settle down.
Taking a glance at his contribution, the Bafana Bafana international featured in 29 matches in all competitions and chipped in with two goals and a single assist.
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With the Tshwane giants having handed Mokwena a new four-year contract, Sundowns will be expected to continue where they left off in the previous term and Mbule will be key.
“They [former teammates] made it easier, also because I had been playing with them for quite some time at SuperSport United and the others we’ve met through the national team,” he added.
“When I came it didn’t feel like a different environment for me and besides my teammates, everyone here has a good heart and everyone always has an ear to listen to you when you want to say something. My stay here has been nice.
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“My reflection of the season is we have done well, it’s not a bad season. We won the DStv Premiership, we lost the Nedbank Cup and MTN8 and we also lost the CAF Champions League.
“‘The thing that stands out the most is we took the team to a state where it hasn’t been in eight years, that’s a good thing. Next season we must do better.”
