The Platinum Stars Courier
Boardroom18 Jun 2029
Pressure builds in the Platinum Stars boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Market18 Jun 2029
Not going: Morgan Hlatshwayo stays at Platinum Stars
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” CS Constantine had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Squad18 Jun 2029
A falling-out at Platinum Stars
Gift Zwane and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad18 Jun 2029
Thulani Tau 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 targets18 Jun 2029
Platinum Stars rebuffed over Favour Bala
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Plateau United have kept their man, and Platinum Stars go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad18 Jun 2029
Platinum Stars count the cost of losing Teboho Mkhize
27 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
The dugout18 Jun 2029
Morgan Hlatshwayo gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Transfer targets18 Jun 2029
Platinum Stars try to borrow Zoey Monyepao
Maritzburg United 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.
The dugout18 Jun 2029
Sechaba Gaseitsiwe knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Sechaba Gaseitsiwe trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
- The dugout The manager comes out for Khama Williams
- Squad Questions about Keagan Vilakazi on the training pitch