The SuperSport United Sentinel
Squad10 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Teboho Mokotjo
33 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
SuperSport United turn down Maritzburg United for Themba Vilakazi
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Erick Dala was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 28. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The paperwork begins on Lwanda Mbanjwa
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. SuperSport United have done the hard part with Golden Arrows, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Erick Dala signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Erick Dala commits to SuperSport United for another 5 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at SuperSport United
Angelo Pellegrini and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Graduation day at SuperSport United
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Erick Dala 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.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Rivaldo Manyama
At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Themba Tau joins the SuperSport United first team
- Market SuperSport United promote Ronwen Jali from within
- Market One of our own: Bongani Manyama joins the SuperSport United first team