Mamelodi Sundowns were seemingly caught off-guard after MT Sports Marketing and Management, through their lawyers, subpoenaed the contract details of head coach Rulani Mokwena and senior coach Manqoba Mngqithi in court.
The civil court case between Sundowns and MT Sports and Marketing took a different twist after Mokwena and Mngqithi's contracts were subpoenaed at the South Gauteng High Court on Monday.
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The club took Pitso Mosimane's agency MT Sports to court for breach of contract, as they seek to be paid back part of the agency fees in the region of R8,6 million (10 percent), which were paid in advance for a four-year contract extension that the coach did not honour after he left for Al Ahly in 2020, a few months after signing.
Sundowns are litigating that they had a claw back clause on the contract with Mosimane that he has to pay back a portion of the agency fees, should he not honour the contract.
However, MT Sports and Marketing have submitted to court that they feel discriminated against and, through their lawyers, subpoenaed the contracts of Mokwena and Mngqithi, to prove that their deals with the club do not contain the so-called claw-back clause, via their agents Steve Kapeluschnik (JDR Consulting) and Mike Makaab (ProSport International).
As revealed by SABC Sport from the court proceedings and as a consequence, the financial details of the contracts of the duo became public knowledge after revelations that Kapeluschnik allegedly received his agency fees on an annual basis for negotiating the 37-year-old's contract and allegedly received R799 100 on or before 15 July 2023 and is expected to get another R763 000 by 15 July as part of his commission.
Makaab is reported to have received R984 000 as a commission for negotiating Mngqithi's contract that was effective from July 2020 to the end of June 2024.
With the standard agency fees of 10 percent usually applied in the industry, the football public started making calculations of the salaries of Mokwena and Mngqithi and also compared them to that of Mosimane during his time at the club, a revelation which could be damaging to Sundowns and also infringed on the confidentiality with their current coaches.
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Kickoff reached out to the Brazilians' Legal and Commercial Executive Yogesh Singh to get the club's stance on Mosimane's camp dragging Mokwena and Mngqithi contracts to court.
However, he was not willing to comment.
"That matter is in court, I can't comment on it. I've not been privy to any of it. Sorry, I can't comment on that," Singh said.
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