Mamelodi Sundowns beat Orlando Pirates to make things more difficult for other psl teams . The game ended 1 – 0 with Sundowns wining again. The gap is very big now so the hopes of other teams to win this league they are almost zero.
Before the game Junior Khanye predicted that Pirates could win 2 – 1 but things did not go that way.
We have casualties in the PSL
“We have casualties in the PSL. Clubs like Bidvest Wits are not with us anymore. Bloemfontein Celtic isn’t with us anymore,” said Matthews as quoted by iDiski Times.
“So, we also need to be responsible as football, the holistic industry, to make sure that clubs can sustain themselves and be around in 10 or 15 years’ time. And not try to keep up with artificial spending.
“On the one hand, it is a free market [in the PSL because there is no Financial Fair Play, FFP], and if they have got the way in all and the capacity in any club to give themselves 20-30 nice players, good luck. We can’t resent that, we have to find what is true to us, each club.
“I can only speak for my club, I can’t speak for other clubs. For us, we tried not to be tempted and we have in the past overspent openly. When [Stuart] Baxter was the coach, we had a team that lost a lot of money.
“We had spiked the budget to such a level where we were locked in with player contracts and when you don’t win the Nedbank Cup the next year, you don’t get the prize money and you don’t get these things, shareholders are asking, what is going on here?
“You spent all that money and the money doesn’t necessarily translate to success. So, for us, we have to find a model that is right for us, that is why we box as we box.”
