Motaung Jr on why Kaizer Chiefs failed to sign Basadien

At one point, it looked certain as Kaizer Chiefs were about to sign Stellenbosch defender Fawaaz Basadien.

Last month, it was reported that a R10 million offer Basadien was turned down. This week, Chiefs’ Sporting Director Kaizer Motaung Jr confirmed that the Soweto giants were interested in the Bafana Bafana left-back.

Kaizer Chiefs has their R10 million offer turned down

Motaung Jr said Stellies were not willing to sell more players after losing Deano van Rooyen and Iqraam Rayners.

“If you remember Rob Benadie’s comments, the CEO of Stellenbosch, he’s just waiting for the transfer window to close because it’s so destabilising,” said Motaung Jr as per iDiski Times.

“I can imagine from a Stellies perspective, testament to them because Stellies did a tremendous job in recruitment, because everyone is talking about Stellenbosch players,” said the Kaizer Chiefs boss.

“So, again, a top talent, great to see him in the international fold the other camp. I think he’s got great attributes. I don’t think there’s another team in the country that wouldn’t want Basadien – he has a great certain profile.”

“A club of our nature wants to have quality players. We’ve had discussions with Rob, it’s not a secret, we made an offer to Rob before.

“He made it very clear about the price he had on Fawaaz. Again, when we re-engaged him again on the price, he made it clear they also want some stability,” continued Motaung Jr.

“They lost Deano to Pirates, they lost Iqraam, Oura is gone now also. They also need to keep hold of certain players and our people need to understand it’s a two-way street, other clubs also want to keep their best players,” he added.

Kaizer Chiefs kicked off their Betway Premiership against Marumo Gallants.

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