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‘What Are Sundowns Going To Do With All The Players’

Bafana Bafana head coach Hugo Broos has questioned the rate at which Mamelodi Sundowns are sighing players, saying it can make his job more difficult.

The defending champions signed Jayden Adams, Keanu Cupido and Lucas Suarez in the recently concluded January transfer window, while Lesiba Nku, Rushine de Reuck, Lebohang Maboe and Thembinkosi Lorch have been offloaded – with Maboe and Lorch leaving on loan.

The coach has, in the past, raised his concerns with his counterparts at Chloorkop regarding certain players, who are regulars in the national team but not getting enough game-time at the club.

He was asked at a round table sitting with journalists on Thursday, if he had spoken to the new man in charge at Sundowns and Broos raised his concerns on the number of players recruited and how this may affect national team players there.

“I have to think about how I’m going to say this because it’s dangerous,” the Belgian said.

“But I understand that Sundowns want the best players and I also understand that they buy them because they have money. They have plenty of money, but at the end what are you going to do with all those players?

“I see Adams now, okay, we will see. In Stellenbosch he played every game and I know Sundowns are playing many games, the Champions League and Nedbank and the league competition. And you need more than 20 players but if I’m right they have 38 players or something…

“I’m not criticising Sundowns, I’m just looking in a realistic way, what are they going to do with all those players? And they are internationals, it’s not like the one with for example [Tashreeq] Matthews, he doesn’t play every game but he’s not with the national team.

“But at Sundowns there are national team players who don’t play and for me it’s a little bit not a happy feeling because you have to at a certain moment replace the player because they are not playing, not because they are not good enough.

“Okay, that’s the policy of Sundowns, it’s not up to me to criticise that I have to respect that but sometimes it’s not easy.”

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