Orlando Pirates striker Marou Souaibou's future remains in doubt at the club, as he is yet to make a domestic start since he was signed in January 2023. Kickoff looks at five foreign striker signings who struggled for game-time and goals at the Buccaneers in recent seasons.
Souaibou was signed by Pirates with the hope that he would set the PSL alight, after he won the 2022 Footballer of the Year in Cameroon.
However, the Cameroonian is yet to feature for the Buccaneers this season, with his one start and one substitute appearances coming in the CAF Champions League preliminary stages.
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Here are the five previous foreign strikers who struggled to get goals at the Buccaneers and were subsequently released.
Kwame Peprah
Peprah joined Pirates in August 2021 and initially impressed with seven goals in the league in his first season but he could not maintain that level in subsequent seasons, as he could not score in the 2022/23 season and was loaned out to Maritzburg United, where he only scored one goal.
Augustine Mulenga
Mulenga could only manage three goals in his first season, in the 2017/18 campaign. The following season, the Zambian also scored only three goals in all competitions. In his third season, Mulenga could only score one goal and eventually joined AmaZulu.
Bernard Morrison
Morrison could not get on the score-sheet in his first season, in the 2016/17 campaign but scored four goals in all competitions in the following campaign but struggled for game time and was released at the end of the 2017/18 campaign.
Mwape Musonda
Musonda joined the Buccaneers in the January 2015 transfer window but things did not work out for him as well that season, as he made only two substitute appearances in the league and one start in a cup tournament and could not get on the score-sheet and he joined Golden Arrows the following season.
Takesure Chinyama
Chinyama joined Pirates in the 2012/13 season and also had his struggles, as he only scored three goals in the domestic league but made his mark in the CAF Champions League, with five goals in that season before he moved to now defunct Platinum Stars a season later.