Atusaye Nyondo goes to SA’s Carara at K3 million
Silver Strikers have accepted to sell their red hot striker Atusaye Nyondo to South Africa’s lower league side Carara Kicks’ at K3 million.
Silver’s change of heart came barely few hours after the club told Carara Kicks to go back and do their home work properly before their ambitions to acquire the Flames striker could turn into reality.
Carara Kicks General Manager Allan Chetty has been in Malawi for the last three days to seal deals with the three Flames’ players- Nyondo, Sankhani Mkandawire (defender-Bullets FC) and Jacob Ngwira (midfielder- ESCOM United). The three have been offered outright deals.
Chetty has had fruitful discussions with ESCOM and Bullets and has already signed Ngwira and Mkandawire at a reported fee of K2.4 million and K2 million respectively.
The two teams have just received part payment of about K1 million each and have agreed to be paid the remainder by December.
Carara Kicks initially offered Silver Strikers K2.5 million for the 19-year-old sensation but just like what they did with ESCOM and Bullets, the team wanted to pay K1 million and finish the balance in December, a move the bankers candidly rejected.
Silver Strikers General Secretary Gibson Mkanda said Nyondo was not a player worth that amount and “at a credit facility for that matter.”
“We have told them to go back to their drawing board and come back to us later. We are not ready to sell Nyondo at a credit facility and at that amount for that matter.
“Everybody knows that Atusaye has the potential and we should not be behaving as if he can’t get much better offers from other teams if they fail to buy him. We are doing this for the interest of both the player and the club,” Mkanda said earlier on Wednesday.
But a few hours later, the Silver secretary was back with a different statement saying: “The executive has decided to let Nyondo go at K3 million. We don’t want to be seen as if we are trying to block his chance to play professional soccer as some people are putting it.”
So the local soccer fraternity will miss the services of the three enterprising players in the TNM Super League as it bounces back this weekend in its seventh week.
The three are expected to join their national team colleagues in camp next Sunday in preparation for a strength testing match against Mozambique ahead of their crucial World Cup and Africa Cup encounter on September 5 at the Kamuzu Stadium in Blantyre.
They had been undergoing trials at Carara Kicks in South Africa’s Free State Province for the second week now but have already swayed the team’s management.
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