WARRIORS midfielder Ovidy Karuru has reportedly signed for Kaizer Chiefs as a free agent after impressing the team’s technical team during trials and the deal will be announced tomorrow.
According to a source at Chiefs, the former Masvingo United and Gunners star who was in the starting line-up for Chiefs in a pre-season match against Chippa United will be unveiled at a press conference this week.
Karuru lasted for 45 minutes in a match his new side had to come from behind to win 4-2 against the returnees, who also had Warriors defender Eric Chipeta making his debut.
Speaking to the South African media yesterday, Kaizer Chiefs spokesman Vina Maphosa said the Glamour Boys will stage a Press conference tomorrow where they will make a number of announcements, including on the future of Karuru.
But NewsDay Sport has it on good authority that Karuru has signed a three-year contract which will keep him at Naturena until the 2017 season.
“He has been training with us, and yes he has signed a three-year deal. He will be unveiled this week,” said the source.
Karuru left the country in 2009 to join French side, Boulogne, though he left them in 2012 after the club were relegated to join OH Leuven of Belgium.
At the Belgian club he had a fallout with former head coach, Ronny van Geneugden, and endured a difficult spell on the sidelines, but was reinstated to the starting XI by the two coaches that followed, first Herman Vermeulen, and now the current coach, Ivan Leko.
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However, the 25-year-old decided against renewing his contract with the European club which expired at the end of last season. At Chiefs, he will join up with his Warriors mates in Kingston Nkhata, Willard Katsande and Mathew Rusike.
Another Zimbabwean who is contracted to Kaizer Chiefs, Lincoln Zvasiya has been loaned out to a National First Division side Royal Eagles, [formerly known as Sivutsa Stars] until the end of the 2014/2015 season.
Zvasiya is one of the country’s biggest prospects and his career appeared to be going upwards when he joined Kaizer Chiefs in 2011, but his future at the club has been bleak for quite some time now due to lack of game time.
He has already tasted European football with Greek side OFI Crete during a loan spell last season, but he is on the brink of moving two steps backwards to the National First Division.
Still in the first division, former Highlanders and Orlando Pirates striker Ralph Matema has joined Jomo Cosmos ahead of the start of the season next month. Matema was with Witbank Stars last season.
Denver Mukamba has joined Pretoria University as he looks to resuscitate his flagging career.
He joins the Steve Barker side on a season’s loan from Bidvest Wits University where he endured a torrid time due to lack of game time.
The former Dynamos ace has been training with AmaTuks since the beginning of last week and Barker confirmed the development over the weekend.
“We are basically two signings away. It will be Denver Mukamba, who is joining us from Wits on a loan deal to us one of them.” Meanwhile, Costa Nhamoinesu’s Sparta Praha look to wrap up their Uefa champions League third round qualification tomorrow night when they travel to Estonia to face Levadia for the reverse fixture.
Praha demolished the minnows 7-0 in the first leg of the UEFA second round qualification match with Nhamoinesu completing 90 minutes.
The Czech Republic side champions are as good as in the third qualifying round where they will meet the winner between Malmö FF of Sweden and Ventspils of Latvia.
