HIGHLANDERS’ bid to acquire striker Ishmael Wadi from Southern Region Soccer League side Bulawayo Chiefs, has hit a snag as it turns out the Division One side requested for a swop deal with skipper Felix Chindungwe.
BY FORTUNE MBELE
Bosso are not keen on parting ways with Chindungwe, who together with Welcome Ndiweni, had been reported to be facing the axe in the mid-season Zifa transfer window.
Ndiweni has since been cleared on request by Bosso and is reportedly bound to Cyprus to an unnamed club.
Highlanders head coach Bongani Mafu on Thursday confirmed that Wadi’s deal had fallen through.
“We engaged Bulawayo Chiefs and on Saturday morning when we were going to Triangle, he (Wadi) was in our starting line-up. But we later realised that the clearance papers from Chiefs were not in order and after that they have cancelled everything through demanding my captain Felix Chindungwe. He is gone and we are not going to have him,” Mafu said.
Wadi, a former Monomotapa and Black Mambas striker, is also on Castle Lager Premier Soccer League log leaders Chicken Inn’s radar.
“I cannot take Chindungwe or Mthulisi Maphosa to Chiefs, to do what?” Mafu asked.
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Bosso have instead promoted striker McCarthy Dube from their Division Two side.
Highlanders chief executive officer Ndumiso Gumede yesterday said they were done with registration papers for Obert “Adebayor” Tafira, who Mafu intended to use at Gibbo on Sunday, but the player sustained an injury at training last week.
“We have officially bade farewell to Simba Sithole and Innocent Mapuranga. Mapuranga left a little hurt as he thought that he still belonged here. He says he wants to go to (Southern Region Soccer League side) Bulawayo City,” Gumede said.
“We have also bade farewell to Welcome Ndiweni. We have finalised paper work for Obert Tafira and there is some fish (players) seemingly wanting to bite at the Highlanders line, but it remains confidential.”
Gumede said there was a striker whom they were targeting who “. . . is not known. You will see him when we play Dynamos.”
Mafu said he was looking at recalling utility player Peter Muduhwa, who is on loan at Bulawayo Chiefs and extending striker Ozias Zibande’s contract which expires on July 31.
Highlanders had offered to loan midfielder Valentine Ndaba to Chiefs, but Mafu said the lanky midfielder refused to go to a lower division side.
