The SuperSport United Sentinel
Squad29 Mar 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Iván Ojeda
45 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. SuperSport United lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market29 Mar 2027
Itumeleng Kekana has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around SuperSport United they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Words at SuperSport United training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lamin Jawo is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Time is catching up with Themba Ngcobo
Everybody at SuperSport United saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 35 the decline is real and measurable — 3 points — and the only question left is how the club handles somebody it owes a great deal to.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Words exchanged at SuperSport United
Iván Ojeda and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
No hiding place for Oumar Komara
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Oumar Komara, and the manager let it.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
When it matters, Ronwen Zungu plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market29 Mar 2027
Mandla Tau told to find a new club
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Mandla Tau has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at SuperSport United.
Market29 Mar 2027
The Njabulo Blom talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. SuperSport United know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
In brief
- The dugout A door opens for Ethen Sampson
- The dugout Kgaogelo Ramushu asks for a word with the manager
- Loan watch Luther Grobler first choice at Bloemfontein Celtic