The SuperSport United Sentinel
Market10 Aug 2026
SuperSport United make Isaac Cissé the dearest name in their history
$630.0K. Fees like that buy a footballer and rent a debate: every touch will be measured against the number for a season at least.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Themba Mahlangu scores twice — 8.47
Two goals and a mark of 8.47 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market10 Aug 2026
Zamalek 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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Mandla Mokoena
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Themba Mahlangu signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Themba Mahlangu and SuperSport United agree another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at SuperSport United
Hlompho Mothiba 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.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
5 academy players handed senior numbers at SuperSport United
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
SuperSport United spend $630.0K on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $630.0K for Isaac Cissé, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
Match8 Aug 2026
Themba Mahlangu sends SuperSport United past Maritzburg United
It finished 2‑0, and it was Themba Mahlangu’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to SuperSport United.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Bradley Dala joins the SuperSport United first team
- Market Percy Jali steps up from the SuperSport United academy
- Squad Keagan Billiat falls out with a teammate over standards