Mamelodi Sundowns coach Pitso Mosimane says he'll buy new players yet again ahead of next season

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Mamelodi Sundowns coach Pitso Mosimane has admitted that he will be dipping his hand into the transfer market yet again, noting that there is always a need to strengthen as is the trend worldwide. 

With his second league title won in the three-and-a-half years at Chloorkop, Mosimane has already started planning for next season – and key to that is the recruitment of new players.

 An important addition will be a player the gap left by Bongani Zungu who is leaving for Portugal while should Khama Billiat also move abroad as is expected, then there will definitely be a need for another equally exciting talent in his position.

 “I have never heard of one coach in the world who says I have got a perfect team and I am not strengthening,” reasons Mosimane.

 “I look at Luis Enrique [of Barcelona] - out of the [UEFA] Champions League. Does he say his team is perfect? Otherwise he would have been in the final. I am talking about Messi, Neymar and Suarez.

 “When I look at Barca every year they bring a minimum of two players. Now, they have brought Arda (Turan) from Atletico Madrid, they brought (Ivan) Rakitic to strengthen the midfield since Iniesta and Xavi are old … they needed to strengthen the team.

 “I look at Bayern (Munich), a big team, they have already signed players,” he continued. “The defender (Mats Hummels) from (Borussia) Dortmund is going to them - every year they are taking from Dortmund, every time, they strengthen their team.

 “So who am I not to strengthen the team? If you don’t strengthen the team then you should be able to win Champions League easily, but we have not arrived there though we are improving in the Champions League. Sundowns is a team that has ambitions and wants to play Champions League football and that is why I came here.

 “[In my] first year we went to the Champions League which is very good and this year we went to Champions League, good. Next year we are going again.”

 ‘Jingles’ has a habit of bringing in new players in large numbers at the start of every season.

 At the start of every of his first season in charge in 2013, the new arrivals were Glenn Verbauwhede, Rashid Sumaila, Sibusiso Kumalo, Katlego Mashego, Bryce Moon, Rodney Ramagalela, Raymond Monama, Tiyani Mabunda, Cuthbert Malajila, Bongani Zungu, Dove Wome, Kennedy Mweene, Emmanuel Mathias, Khama Billiat, Mukuka Mulenga and Therlo Moosa.

 The next season Luyolo Nomandela, Bonginkosi Ntuli, Siyanda Zwane, Mario Booysen, Rheece Evans, Mame Niang, Lindokuhle Mbatha, Uzoenyi Ejike, Kudakwashe Mahachi came in while Mumuni Abubakar, Method Mwanjali, Themba Zwane, Nyasha Mushekwi, Therlo Moosa, Hichani Himoonde and Eleazar Rodgers returned from loan spells.

 At the beginning of the current season the new men at Chloorkop were Leonardo Castro, Bangaly Soumahoro, Keagan Dolly, Fiston Abdul Razak, Mogakolodi Ngele with Khayelihle Shozi and Flavio Bento promoted, as Samuel Julies, Moon, Verbauwhede, Kumalo, Nomandela, Mulenga, Mabunda all returned from various loans.

 Guaranteed to make signings, the question is: who will Mosimane be signing this year?

 Article by: Lovemore Moyo

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