May I have
your attention please. Your thought this was an auction exhibition, you were
not too off the mark. It gnaws me that we have reached a point where football
agents have become shrewd auctioneers instead of their normal trade. It is that
time of the season where speculation is on overdrive, but the way the Premier Soccer
League clubs are so predictable in the market the speculations have become as
straight as the facts that comes with it.
Allow me to
fasten to the crux of my discontent.
Money has
become such a quintessential component that mega rich owners of the clubs
always get their way, to the dismay of the football sake. As we are all aware,
Itumeleng Khune and Simphiwe Tshabalala’s contracts are reaching their sell by
date in June and so is Elias "Domingues" Pelembe’s.
It might be
a tactic to balloon the market price of the aforementioned, by linking the trio
to the opposite foes, but even if not, it was disturbing to hear Pelembe’s
agent saying in the public spectrum that whosoever bids the highest price will have
the player in their books.
So this
means, it is not about what the player wants anymore, it is the reverse. And
when the reserve suffice, it always lead to conflict of interest between the player
and whosoever would have acquired his services on the prelude of money. This is
a common denominator in the ranks of Mamelodi Sundowns’ failures.
Yes, there
has always been players bought for big moneys. But the way it is practiced at
some quotas, it equates to rascaldom. Look, when Real Madrid sneezed in the
Galactico era, everyone caught the flu. Their strategy of market signings
brought them many tittles and they recouped their moneys they spent on
ridiculous signings on shirts selling and what not. It was a well stitched
stratagem. Until the end of that era, of course.
Some clubs
here at home like Sundowns have tried in vain to plagiarize that method. It has
only become a parody. Anyway, there is more counterfeit club’s apparel than Patrice
Motsepe can bargain, for them to recoup their sauntering transfers. So why do
they continue venturing into the same strategy that yields no success?
Perhaps to
spite their rivals.
If you do
what you have always done, you will get what you have always gotten.
By Thato Bosoga
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