The Black Aces Herald
Market14 Jun 2027
Black Aces say no — this time
The offer from Bidvest Wits for Teboho Grobler was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market14 Jun 2027
Bradley Kekana hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Black Aces can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
No thanks: Mauro Couto rejects the move
Black Aces had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Sporting CP, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Words exchanged at Black Aces
Jayden Adams 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.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Ronwen Mokoena is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad14 Jun 2027
A row about effort at Black Aces
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Phakamani Mahlambi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market14 Jun 2027
Jomo Cosmos join the queue for Ramahlwe Khune
Add another name to the list: Jomo Cosmos have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Ramahlwe Khune. The answer from Black Aces has not changed — yet.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
A loan move for Siyabonga Dladla is in the works
Black Aces have made the call to Orlando Pirates. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The dugout14 Jun 2027
When it matters, Evidence Phiri 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.
In brief
- Squad The dressing room has a star in it
- Market Black Aces put Bradley Jali up for sale
- The dugout Ronwen Zungu knocks on the manager’s door