The SuperSport United Sentinel
Market3 Aug 2026
Cercle Brugge come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and SuperSport United did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market3 Aug 2026
Andile Lorch wants more than SuperSport United are offering
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at SuperSport United
Themba Lorch was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A muscle injury sidelines Ramahlwe Modiba for 14 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. SuperSport United will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Andile Lorch falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Manchester City tell SuperSport United: Pierce Charles is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market3 Aug 2026
Themba Mokoena attracts admirers
The name of Themba Mokoena has come up in conversations SuperSport United were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
No hiding place for Sifiso Kekana
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sifiso Kekana, and the manager let it.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
SuperSport United try to borrow Stevie Bausor
Leicester City have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
In brief
- The dugout Themba Lorch asks for a word with the manager
- Market Ramahlwe Mokotjo told to find a new club
- Squad The armband goes to Keagan Mkhize