Silver snub Botswana club on Stein Davie

Stein Davie’s potential move to Botswana football powerhouse Township Rollers has hit a snag after Silver Strikers expressed disatisfaction with the conditions of the deal.

The former TN Stars striker is in Botswana where he passed trials at Township Rollers.

In a letter Tonwship Rollers wrote Silver Strikers, the club’s chief executive officer Bennett Mamelodi acknowledged that the player’s trials were successful and that they wanted him on a six-month loan deal

Reads the letter in part: “We have decided that we would like to sign him, but due to our current financial constraints, we hereby request for you to loan him to us for free, for a period of six months during which time we hope he will get fit and set the local league alight.

“Within that period, we intend to aggressively market him, particularly to clubs in the PSL [Pre,ier Soccer League]in South Africa, where we have our former coach, who needs a striker of Davie’s profile.”

The team also pledged to share equally his transfer fee with the Bankers.

But reacting to the letter, Silver Strikers chief executive officer Thoko Chimbali said they have rejected the offer from Township Rollers.

He said: “The hidden motive is that Township Rollers wanted to act as a conduit for Davie to clinch a deal with a South African club. We do not need an intermediary to facilitate such moves. As Silver Strikers, we are of the view that the player does not need a foreign team to find a club in South Africa as we have been able to sell players to clubs in South Africa before. In addition, we have pending inquiries on the player from other clubs.”

Township Rollers scouts were impressed with Davie’s performance in June when the Malawi national football team participated at the Cosafa tournament.