Billiat asked for a fortune: Pitso

The coach of MAMELODI SUNDOWNS, Pitso Mosimane, said that he would probably have lost all his players if the club had bent to Khama Billiat's enormous financial demands for that the Zimbabwean remains on their team. This is the first time that a senior Sundowns official reveals that his divorce from Billiat was based on financial disagreements.

The Zimbabwean international joined the giants of Soweto, Kaizer Chiefs, the most important football club of South Africa.

"It's his decision (to join the Chiefs) .It is what he wanted." Mosimane told Kick-Off: "I think everyone knows that we we care about our players, and that people know that we are not part of these clubs. "But, honestly, if we gave Khama what he wanted, that he would receive leaders, I would lose Themba Zwane, Tiyani Mabunda, Gaston Sirino, even Percy (Tau), who is still our player.

"I would lose Denis Onyango, African player of the year, Tebogo Langerman … I would lose all these players for one man, no, it is not possible."

Mosimane has said he was looking at the interests of the team, rather than an individual, in the case of Billiat.
"I do not want to talk about other teams, they know what they're doing, but Denis Onyango is important to me," he said. "That means I have to give all of these players this kind of money No, it is not possible

"We would lose the locker room. It's good for football where Khama went for money, because football is a short career, and we are happy for him. "

" So, I prefer to lose a player hey. We made him a good offer. Believe me, it was a great offer. The offer we made, he could have been the highest paid player, which would probably have taken four years for this disc to be broken. "

However, others have suggested that Billiat was disappointed that he was underpaid for a long time at Sundowns despite being one of the best players in the club during For the last three years

Last January, Keagan Dolly fought tooth and nail to settle abroad because Sundowns did not want to accept the French offer of Montpellier.

And Pretoria's side is also facing similar challenges with Tau being sought by Brighton & Hove Albion.

Tau would be begging the Sundowns to allow him to go abroad after receiving several offers
Brighton & Hove Albion have submitted three written offers for the Tau services, with the latest bid, estimated at about 34 million rand.

However, the Brazilians seem reluctant to sell the 24-year- old, and that did not go well with Tau and his agen
Mmatsatsi Sefalafala revealed how the Sundowns sent them from pillar to post regarding the Brighton & Hove Albion offer for Tau. ] She went further to explain how Tau did not hear Sundown President Patrice Motsepe despite several attempts to get his attention and his intervention on the subject.

According to the Sunday Times, Tau denied the opportunity to go to see the FIFA World Cup in Russia with some members of the team because he feels that his future has not been enough. priority.

"We had several meetings with Sundowns and two of them included the president (Motsepe) .March of March, I was contacted by Brighton and we started to commit ourselves" Sefalafala told Goal.com

"Percy was very excited, we agreed to announce the news to the Sundowns after the Barcelona match, Brighton prepared an offer and sent me the offer to Yogesh (Singh) by e-mail.
"Singh said," greatly improve your offer because I will not even take that to the board. "

£ 2 million plus a 7 , 5 percent of sales. Sundowns said to increase the offer significantly. On the other hand, Pitso is busy in the media saying that these English teams should not think we are in Burundi. "

The Tau agent said that Sundowns required £ 4 million, of which £ 2 million will be payable immediately and £ 2 million payable in 2019 with no sale to release Tau.

" Their last bid is £ 2.5 million, with £ 2.2 million payable immediately and £ 300,000 payable next year in June, plus 5% sell. "This revised offer was sent to Downs last Thursday night," she said.

"Last Saturday, Tau sent a message to Motsepe asking him," Help me, I need your help. you said that if we had an opportunity we would talk. "

" He did not answer until today. Usually when Percy the text, he responds immediately. This time, he's killed. I then received a message from Brighton saying that the Sundowns responded and did not move on the four million.

"This opportunity is suspended by a thread, the sad thing is that we have in black and white that if a good faith offer comes that the player wishes to accept, both parties, in good faith, must be sure Engage each other in this regard. "

In January of this year, reports revealed that the Danes FC Midtjylland, FC Rostov and Dynamo Moscow have submitted bids for the fast striker, but Sefalafala said that the club has dragged its feet until the mid-season transfer window ends. In June 2019, and if the club decided not to sell it now, they would run the risk of losing it for free, as was the case for Billiat

"We started to commit ourselves and Percy was really keen to lose it. go there at that time. . We had several meetings with Sundowns, two of which included the president himself.

"Their plan was to renew Percy, but we were not ready to do it. From past experiences, some players have had problems going abroad after renewing, so we did not want to be locked into a long – term contract, "said Sefalafala. – Sports Reporter / Coup de l'oeil send / Goal.com.