So far, Sundowns had made a few large ‘official’ signings, with Sipho Mbule recruited just lately, whereas it might probably’t be forgotten that it was through the January switch window that the Brazilians secured the companies of Abubeker Nassir from Ethiopian Coffee after present process a profitable trial.
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Other latest reviews had linked Sundowns with gifted Moroccan defender Abdelmounaim Boutouil, and this has now been confirmed by his mother or father membership SCC Mohammedia.
It’s additionally been confirmed by SuperSport United that Bafana keeper Ronwen Williams is formally set to be part of Sundowns as nicely.
In a notable report by KickOff.com, Chilean midfield sensation Marcelo Allende is now additionally set to transfer to the DStv Premiership champions on a three-year deal from Montevideo City Torque. Allende has joined the Uruguayan membership on a free switch in January 2020.
“In order to get him out of the club belonging to the City Football Group, Mamelodi Sundowns had to pay three million dollars, an extremely important figure for the charruas, who in 2020 transferred to the club on a free deal,” reads a part of a report in Chilean publication Encancha.
“After completing his move to Magallanes, the player was released and ended up signing in the Uruguayan capital at zero cost.”
Meanwhile, Sundowns have additionally just lately been boosted by the contract extension of superstar striker Peter Shalulile, who had a exceptional 2021-22 season the place he scored a whopping 30 objectives throughout all competitions.
In doing so, Shalulile grew to become solely the second participant to rating 30 objectives in a single season in the PSL period after Collins Mbesuma (35) in the 2004-05 marketing campaign.
Shalulile capped off a memorable 2021/22 campaign by profitable the PSL Footballer of the Season and DStv Premiership Players’ Player of the Season awards.
Although the dynamic ahead is a participant who understandably would have been in excessive demand, he has dedicated his long-term future to Sundowns.
“We are delighted to announce our Namibian hitman Peter Shalulile has signed a 5-year contract extension with The Brazilians!” a social media put up from Sundowns acknowledged on Sunday.
“More goals, more celebrations, more records, more Shalulile.”
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Sundowns are making ready for an additional large season
Mamelodi Sundowns returned to pre-season coaching in the beginning of the month forward of a busy month of preparation for the upcoming 2022/23 marketing campaign.
After a relentless season preventing on all fronts till the very finish, Bafana Ba Style formally went on vacation after their parade in Tshwane for 4 weeks. Masandawana reported again to Chloorkop on July 1, for medical exams forward of the brand new season. The following Monday, gamers and the technical crew stepped up to the sector to have their first area session in full swing and proceeded to practice for every week at their house amenities.
“The first week of our Pre-season [included] intense testing. The work that is done by not just our medical department but also from the conditioning department in assessing the players’ physiology and the physical readiness of the players to take part in full team training, we were very satisfied with that and the information that we received was very good,” briefly defined The Brazilians’ co-coach, Rulani Mokwena.
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Downs made their approach to Royal Marang in Rustenburg in their subsequent section of pre-season preparations which is able to start on August 6, with the Tshwane derby in the MTN8.
“The camp in Marang gives us a lot of possibilities, we are not people that train in isolation or train different elements or factors that contribute to the performance. From day one already we were working with the physical aspects, but already introducing a new tactical and technical concept that we’d like to work on and to improve,” added Mokwena.
“These were ideas that we had already from last season, there were things that we felt we had the condition to be better at, but maybe we didn’t have the possibility. Now that we have a bit of time to train and to prepare the team, we focus a lot more on the tactical aspects and try to make sure that we prepare the team in that regard because during the season we don’t have the time to prepare and train.”
Masandawana have a pre-season exhibition match towards Richards Bay FC in the semi-final of the annual Prince Mangosuthu Legacy Cup going down in KwaZulu-Natal on Saturday, July 23.