General Manager
The team needs to hire somebody that will run the club at heart. I think I can do that job should I be given a chance to do that and with all the resources that Sundowns has at the moment, I see no reason why they should struggle the way they are.
Mamelodi Sundowns don’t need somebody who will run the club for the sake of making a living and somebody who will abuse power and authority. The General Manager has to be in touch with both the Technical Team and the players to make sure that all parties are happy to be associated with the club. This is the area that I feel Sundowns need to strengthen a lil bit so as for the team to get more good results.
The Club should not sign the players just because it has a financial muscle to do it. This has to be discussed with the Technical team first before. Before the end of the season, Sundowns released some players without the approval of the technical team (Bongani Twala, Fanyana Mokoena, Kurt Leintjies and Gareth Ncaca etc). Seeing that Mamelodi Sundowns knew that they would be employing Antonio Lopez Habas who knew the players very well, I believe he should have been consulted first before releasing those players.
Also, the club went on to sign Method Mwanjale, Nyasha Mushekwi, Lionel Mutizwa, Tshepo Ramokala, Sibusiso Khumalo, Thapelo Tshilo, Buhlebuyeza Mkhwanazi, Jabulani Shongwe and Richard Henyekane. This is another area that I feel the club wastes finances and talent at.
The president might have all the money in the world but that doesn’t mean it should be abused and spent unnecessarily. Mamelodi Sundowns need to change the strategy and consult the Technical Team before signing players. Seeing that the club has a Development Academy, how will players like Siyabonga Ngubane, Jabulani Shongwe and Buhlebuyeza Mkhwanazi get a chance to perfom if the team goes to the market to buy expensive and experienced players?
The club should have a limit and there should be a policy of signing players. The club should not sign a player older than 27 from the other teams unless the player is exceptionally good and is player that can sort a certain department like scoring goals. You can’t break the bank and sign a midfielder whereas we have an Academy that should be providing us with such players.
There are some players that I feel the Club should not have signed, not that they are bad players but there was no need to sign them because we were covered in those areas they operate in. Players like Eduardo Ferreira, Richard Henyekane, Teko Modise, Tshepo Ramokala, Thapelo Tshilo, Method Mwanjale, and Lionel Mutizwa,these are very good players but we did have players that operate same positions as them. The club did however made some good signings, Sibusiso Khumalo, Nyasha Mushekwi and the players promoted from the development.
By Zothani Oscar Bashin Simelane
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