The SuperSport United Sentinel
Market17 Aug 2026
SuperSport United sell their best player to Trabzonspor
$5.1M is a serious amount of money and it does not play centre-forward. Everybody in the dressing room knows who used to be looked at when it went wrong.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Gift Vilakazi takes the match ball home
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
Supporters turn on the $5.1M sale of Keagan Dala
He is going to Trabzonspor, the club has $5.1M it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Age has not caught Khama Mothiba yet — 7.85
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.85 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Market17 Aug 2026
Cracovia 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
Nobody could stop scoring
8 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about SuperSport United and Black Aces in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Keagan Lorch in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at SuperSport United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Gift Vilakazi was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.24. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Itumeleng Mphela 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.
In brief
- Market Eyes on Gift Dala again
- Match SuperSport United and Black Aces take a point apiece
- Squad No hiding place for Ramahlwe Mabunda