The SuperSport United Sentinel
Market10 Aug 2026
Lebogang Billiat says no to Petrojet
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Lebogang Billiat had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
An offer of $1.2M for Lamin Jawo
SuperSport United have gone to Jablonec with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Thamsanqa Grobler signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Thamsanqa Grobler commits to SuperSport United for another 4 years.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Too dear: SuperSport United walk away from Mothobi Mvala
$430.0K was the most the club would pay and Mamelodi Sundowns were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Graduation day at SuperSport United
4 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
A row about effort at SuperSport United
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Kermit Tau was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Thamsanqa Grobler runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Patronato tell SuperSport United: Joaquín Barolín is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at SuperSport United
Williams Jali and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
In brief
- The dugout No hiding place for Hlompho Mphela
- Market One of our own: Teboho Grobler joins the SuperSport United first team
- Market One of our own: Gift Dolly joins the SuperSport United first team