Siphiwe Tshabalala.
“Shabba” has played 17 games for Erzurumspor since joining them last year and there have been rumours suggesting that the former Bafana Bafana star might come back to the Absa Premiership.
Mahlakgane has since poured cold water on those rumours.
“As it is now he is still contracted to the club. I don’t have to play the game of hide and seek with the players, I am not like that, I won’t start with Shabba. He is not coming to South Africa,” said Mahlakgane.
READ: Chiefs set to sack those too big for their boots?
“We talk every second day and he updates me when he starts and all that. It is not easy out there and the best thing that happened is that we took Shabba overseas when he is at that age because he is mature and he understands that he is in the bushes. We always joke and say he is in the military,” he added.
“I’m sure when he compares his life now and when he compares his life at Kaizer Chiefs and now in Turkey, it is two different worlds. But because we made a conscious decision when he left that he wants to tick the box. He has played in the World Cup and has won stuff in South Africa. The only thing left was for him to play overseas and he has ticked the box,” concluded Mahlakgane.
For more news your way, download The Citizen’s app for iOS and Android.