RELEGATED Premier Soccer League side Bantu Rovers midfielder Tafadzwa Kutinyu arrived back in the country on Tuesday from a two-week trial stint with Belgian Pro League side Club Brugge.
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However, Bantu Rovers general manager Wilbert Sibanda said they were yet to get feedback on the player’s performance.
“He arrived back yesterday (Tuesday) afternoon from Club Brugge in Belgium where he went for trials for two weeks,” he said.
“We asked him to go and rest after his arrival and we are yet to meet him. “We are also yet to receive a technical report from the club on the player.”
Bantu Rovers, who played exciting football in the 2014 Castle Lager Premier Soccer League but failed to produce good results are back in Division One.
The team had returned to the top flight this season after acquiring newly promotedPlumtree Chiefs’ franchise at the beginning of the season.
Bantu Rovers thrives on a vibrant youth policy that produced Netherlands-based Young Warriors defender Marvelous Nakamba who signed for Dutch Eredivisie side Vitesse from French League 2 side AS Nancy in July.
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Kudakwashe Mahachi, now at Mamelodi Sundowns in South Africa, played for Bantu Rovers before moving to Chicken Inn.
Mahachi also played for Highlanders early this season after he was loaned to the Bulawayo giants by Sundowns. Bantu Rovers also have youngsters Teenage Hadebe, Bukhosi Sibanda and Denzel Khumalo who have a bright future.
Sibanda, Khumalo, Thembalethu Mthunzi, Leslie Lunga are currently in the Under-20 national team that will participate in the Region 5 Under-20 Youth Games which start next week in Bulawayo.
Bantu Rovers, coached by part owner Methembe Ndlovu and Mandla “Lulu” Mpofu would return to Division One with the bulk of the players that played in the PSL and hope to make a quick return to top flight action in 2016.
“Bantu Rovers will always be there. We are just getting prepared to compete in Division One and get promoted at the end of the season next year,” Sibanda said.
“But it is not going to be easy. Division One is tough. We will maintain our squad.
“We had a pretty strong squad, played exciting football but unfortunately you win by results.
“Obviously clubs will be interested in our players but we urge teams to produce their own players and not depend on buying.
“Unless our players will be going outside the country, I don’t see us releasing them to local clubs.
“We want to fight to be back. We have nothing to worry about over player contracts.
“We are covered in that area. But we won’t stand in a player’s way if they are willing to leave. We can always talk.
“We will stand guided by the technical team and we will not be releasing players that are in their plans.”
Defence stalwart Herbert Dick has said he is hanging his boots but Ttshintsha Guluva has other experienced players in Obadiah Tarumbwa, Zephania Ngodzo and skipper Nqobizitha Masuku, who has been targeted by neighbours Highlanders.
Also in the squad are the likes of Moses Majika, Lucky Ndlela and Dalubuhle Moraka.
