Kaizer Chiefs are seemingly swapping one target for the other, and in that, they divert their attention from a Bafana Bafana veteran to an up-and-comer.
Veteran Percy Tau and Polokwane City winger Oswin Appollis are the players in question – the latter is reportedly close to putting pen to paper with the Soweto giants, who first tried to sign him nearly a year ago.
What about Tau?
Tau is a free agent, yet Kaizer Chiefs have decided against signing the 31-year-old following the signing of Khama Billiat.
“The team feels that apparently they believe they have learnt a lesson from the signing of Khama Billiat and Keagan Dolly,” an inside source explained.
“They paid a lot of money but the club believes those returns were not worthy of it. So that’s why they are looking at other forward players apart from Percy Tau. So for now he is not one of the targets. But in football you never know what would happen in future. But definitely not now.”
An another source reaffirmed Kaizer Chiefs’ pivot, saying, “Of course there was a time when the club was interested in signing Percy Tau and that was when he was about to leave Aly Ahly.”
“But no longer. The technical team as well as the recruitment department have ruled out signing Percy Tau this time around. It’s apparently not in the coach’s plans at the moment. They pulled out of that race.”
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