The latest controversy surrounding gifted but apparently haunted Sipho Mbule, who is at Sekhukhune United on loan from Mamelodi Sundowns, has been met with disdain and disappointment.
Sekhukhune are reportedly now against the idea of keeping Mbule beyond his loan spell from Sundowns.
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The 27-year-old has been followed by one controversy after another. Such as that, as per reports at the time, he arrived in an intoxicated state at Chloorkop training in the 2022/23 season.
He was also then in hot water when he was reported to have brought a woman into the Babino Noko camp, against club policy.
Former Sundowns captain Hlompho Kekana has expressed his disappointment with the unfolding situation, and fired a warning to the player nicknamed 'Master Chef'.
"If you remember, we have spoken about Sipho Mbule before, and it will pain me if this boy doesn’t realise his full potential in football because we all know what he is capable of doing," said Kekana on SABC’s Soccer Zone.
"I was praising him last week, saying this boy is playing some top-class football and needed consistency.
"However, it is the outside world that is letting him down, and time is no longer on his side.
"You look at him, look at his age, he is approaching 30, and when you reach 30, we are going to start looking at you funny, and you are going to get to a stage where you need football, and it doesn’t need you.
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"Football is crucial like that, in the sense that when you need it, that’s when it doesn’t need you.
"Now is the time when he should be doing so much with football because time in football doesn’t last too long," warned the erstwhile box-to-box man.
Meanwhile, the Tshwane giants themselves are expected to undergo a massive clear-out at the end of the season as head coach Miguel Cardoso replenishes his side. It remains to be seen if they will eventually decide to keep Mbule on their books.
