Dynamos striker Takesure Chinyama was expected home last night with the news that he had passed a medical at Orlando Pirates and agreed terms with the Absa Premiership football giants to pave way for a mega-bucks move which should be completed once a fee has been agreed, today.
But Dynamos attacker Denver Mukamba failed to make the grade at lowly Pretoria University and has since started another trial stint with Wits University where he hopes he can impress.
Chinyama was expected to arrive home last night together with his handlers who were armed with a “lucrative” offer that Dynamos will find hard to resist.
Chinyama broke the news to coach Kalisto Pasuwa yesterday and promised a farewell brace on Sunday when DeMbare take on Angola’s InterClube in a Caf Confederation Cup mini-league phase qualifier at Rufaro Stadium.
“His agents phoned and they told me that they had completed everything down there and they were now going to make an offer to Dynamos,” said Pasuwa. “He (Chinyama) said he wants to score a farewell brace on Sunday.”
Sunday’s game will be Chinyama’s last as he has got to link up with his new team for pre-season training immediately after.
Also set for a last dance in Dynamos colours is goalkeeper Washington Arubi whose offer will be tabled today. But Dynamos could yet hold on to prized asset Mukamba whose failure at small boys Pretoria came as a surprise but a blessing in disguise.
Pasuwa said he was disappointed Mukamba was being taken to such small teams as Pretoria yet with his talent he could break into European leagues.
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“It’s disappointing he has to go for trials at such a small team, he should just walk into a team like Pretoria University,” said Pasuwa. “He has got a bright future ahead, he is young and he is very talented. If it was a bigger team then it would be better, but then I still feel he is too good to go and waste away in South Africa. He should just come back home and wait for a right move, that’s only my opinion, but it’s up to him at the end of the day.”
Insiders said that Mukamba was earmarked for trials in Scotland with one agent promising to take him to the UK to try his luck there. At Wits he will be making an attempt to join fellow Zimbabweans Tinashe Nengomasha and Thomas Sweswe who both joined Energy Murambadoro this week.
With a lot of transfer talk haunting Dynamos, they are trying to focus on the impending tough match, but there is yet more headache for Pasuwa who is currently working with a depleted squad owing to injuries.
Veteran Murape Murape was sidelined at yesterday’s training session and so was Rodreck Mutuma who watched from the fringes. If Mutuma loses his fitness race, Pasuwa can look to Zambian Arthur Kaloseka whom he believes can fill in the shoes.
There are whispers in the Dynamos camp that defender Patson Jaure could be on his way to South Africa too, but the player trained with the rest of the squad yesterday.
