Teboho Dolly

Attacking Midfielder (L) - University of Pretoria
30 Apr 2034
Sunday
Process

Marked for Teboho Dolly

390 Edition

The University of Pretoria Herald

16 Jan 2034
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

University of Pretoria sink to position 14

15 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

The dugout

Kermit Jali: 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.

Transfer targets

$21.0K settles it between the clubs for Monwabisi Mwondla

Kaizer Chiefs 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.

Market

Teboho Dolly asks to leave University of Pretoria

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market

Chippa United come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and University of Pretoria did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Match

No end in sight to University of Pretoria's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at University of Pretoria has to find a result from somewhere.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Gift Dolly

Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

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 targets

Door shut on Teboho Mkhize

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

In brief

Back issues
388 Edition

The University of Pretoria Herald

2 Jan 2034
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

The scrutiny sharpens at University of Pretoria

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at University of Pretoria is running low.

Boardroom

University of Pretoria spell it out for Interim Coach

The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Interim Coach has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.

Squad

Evidence Ngcobo stands alone

7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Market

Mandla Mkhize hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what University of Pretoria can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Mandla Mkhize has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around University of Pretoria they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Match

A bad afternoon for University of Pretoria against Maritzburg United

1‑3 to Maritzburg United, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Words at University of Pretoria training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luvoyo Phewa 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 targets

Bidvest Wits tell University of Pretoria: Relebohile Mofokeng 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.

Squad

Tempers go at University of Pretoria

Raymond Agyemang 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.

In brief