Saleng’s troubles at Sundowns keep emerging
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Monnapule Saleng has found himself walking with issues that have pushed him away from the team at Mamelodi Sundowns.
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Saleng’s troubles at Sundowns keep emerging
Aug 20, 2026 – 09:15 pm
By Lovemore Moyo
Monnapule Saleng’s catalogue of conduct related concerns have been put out without dilution by Mamelodi Sundowns coach Miguel Cardoso.
Saleng has only been at Sundowns since January but has already sunk his name into the negatives at Chloorkop where standards are kept high with zero tolerance on lack of professionalism.
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Cardoso again had to answer questions around Saleng on Thursday and detailed what they have had to put with.
“I don’t want to speak too much about that because Saleng is now a club issue, not a coach’s issue,” pointed out the Portuguese with chagrin written on his face.
“We tried to push him so much towards the group, towards 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 inside a very disciplined group and where we have no issues.
“We have a lot of understanding about what are the rules inside the locker room [made] by the players that establish a way to exist, a way to relate and when a player breaks systematically these type of things towards his teammates, towards the coach, towards the club, [then] we don’t know what we can count on.
“There is a moment when you say how can we count on something that we don’t know what he is going to do.
“Imagine you train all week normal, and then you put his name on a list, and the day we are waiting for him in the bus he just literally doesn’t appear.
“It happened twice, three, four times, him being the last to arrive and first to go away.
“It is difficult to have a process of development of a player…we tried in the beginning of the season to give him a lot of love.
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“So, our attitude regarding him after he failed us [was] let’s not put apart, let’s embrace him, let’s try to give him stability, let’s make him feel important.
“…We wanted to make him integrate into the family but to be part of a family you also need to really want to be in the dynamic of the family.
“It is the last time that I’m going to speak about it is a club issue and no longer a coach’s question,” says Cardoso.
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