David Osayi-Samuel

Attacking Midfielder (R) - University of Pretoria
14 Sep 2031
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234 Edition

The University of Pretoria Herald

20 Jan 2031
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match18 Jan 2031

Chastening afternoon for University of Pretoria

A 0‑3 beating by Kaizer Chiefs was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Squad20 Jan 2031

Tempers go at University of Pretoria

Veli Mothwa was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad20 Jan 2031

A row about effort at University of Pretoria

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luvoyo Phewa was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets20 Jan 2031

Door shut on Naphtali Mokoena

University of Pretoria asked and Free State Stars said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad20 Jan 2031

Vusi Sibiya makes it 200

200 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.

Squad20 Jan 2031

David Osayi-Samuel stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” David Osayi-Samuel and University of Pretoria agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout20 Jan 2031

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑3 defeat, delivered by Interim Coach to a room that had heard them before.

Transfer targets20 Jan 2031

University of Pretoria try to borrow Antonio Van Wyk

Mamelodi Sundowns 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 dugout20 Jan 2031

When it matters, Ronaldo Maarman 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

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233 Edition

The University of Pretoria Herald

13 Jan 2031
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match11 Jan 2031

Nowhere to hide for University of Pretoria

0‑3 against Orlando Pirates, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Market13 Jan 2031

Ongelethu Somtsewu puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at University of Pretoria, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets13 Jan 2031

$3.0K settles it between the clubs for Xolani Ngcobo

Maritzburg United have accepted the money. What University of Pretoria do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

The dugout13 Jan 2031

Khama Billiat: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” University of Pretoria have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad13 Jan 2031

Veli Mothwa 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 University of Pretoria this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad13 Jan 2031

Words at University of Pretoria training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Siyanda Msani is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Transfer targets13 Jan 2031

University of Pretoria rebuffed over Lucas Beltrán

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Mamelodi Sundowns have kept their man, and University of Pretoria go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad13 Jan 2031

Siyanda Msani makes it 200

200 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.

The dugout13 Jan 2031

The manager makes an example of Jordan Allies

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief

173 Edition

The University of Pretoria Herald

19 Nov 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad19 Nov 2029

Veli Mothwa breaks a bone — 89 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 89 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match17 Nov 2029

University of Pretoria taken apart

1‑5 to SuperSport United, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Match17 Nov 2029

The wait goes on for University of Pretoria

4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Match17 Nov 2029

Nobody could stop scoring

6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about University of Pretoria and SuperSport United in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

Squad19 Nov 2029

Siyanda Msani 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.

Match19 Nov 2029

University of Pretoria at the halfway mark

Half the programme played, position 12, 14 on the board. Doubling it is the sum every supporter has done and the only one nobody at the club will do out loud.

Boardroom19 Nov 2029

Nobody left the University of Pretoria dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

Player ratings19 Nov 2029

Risen Albert beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 16. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout19 Nov 2029

Hlompho Ngcobo answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑5, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

In brief