Cardoso on Saleng: ‘The last to arrive, and the first to go away’

Mamelodi Sundowns mentor Miguel Cardoso has detailed how the club tried in their efforts to assist Monnapule Saleng.

Saleng is currently not training with the rest of his Sundowns teammates after breaking the rules of the locker room, according to Cardoso.

Cardoso said Saleng’s troubles have nothing to do with him as a coach, adding that they gave the left-footed attacker all the necessary support.

The 54-year-old further revealed that Saleng did not report for duty on many occasions, adding that he was the last to arrive at Chloorkop and the first to leave.

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CARDOSO DETAILS SALENG’S TROUBLES AT SUNDOWNS

“It was never a coach issue. He was always a player we gave a lot, a lot, a lot of effort. We tried to push him so much toward the group, toward the dynamic of the group, towards the behaviours that a professional player has to have, the mental stability that a professional player has to have,”

“But inside the group we have no issues, we have a lot of understanding about what are the rules and our locker room has rules, the players establish those, and relate, and when a player systematically breaks these kind of things towards the teammates, towards the coaches, towards the club, we don’t know what we can count on.”

“So, there is a moment where we say, ‘how can we count on something, what is he going to do?’.

“Imagine you train normal all week and then you put his name on a list, and the day we are waiting for him in the bus, he just doesn’t appear.

“So, these things did not happen once, did not happen twice, three, four times… [He has] been the last to arrive, the first to go away,” concluded Cardoso.

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