The KosiBay News understood that Kaizer Chiefs have rejected an offer from Maccabi Haifa for one their emerging talents in the club’s youth structures.
According to the source at Naturena, the Israel outfit made an approach through their plethora of South African networks to ask whether the Glamour Boys would be open to selling or even loaning out striker Wandile Duba.
There’s been talk in the football fraternity that the 18 year old is the next big thing, having impressed while playing DStv Diski Challenge.
Kaizer Chiefs coach Arthur Zwane would have been monitoring Wandile Duba given his close ties with the development side coach Vela Khumalo, as the club’s first team mentor himself cut his teeth in the Glamour Boys youth ranks.
Although information provided to The KosiBay News suggests that Wandile Duba does not even have a contract with the senior team side, The KosiBay News understands the Kaizer Chiefs hierarchy were reluctant to enter into formal negotiations with Maccabi Haifa.
It could be an opportunity missed for Amakhosi in quickly getting their emerging talents to Europe while they are still teenagers, but this won’t be the first time, The KosiBay News reported in June that the Glamour Boys turned down a bid from KVC Westerlo in Belgium for the service of striker Mduduzi Shabalala and reacted by handing him a three-year deal themselves in effort to hold on to him longer.
Wandile Duba continues to play reserve league football, and its not yet clear at this stage whether Kaizer Chiefs will promote him to fast track his integration with the first team, but as things stand the potential move to Israel is currently off.
