Discarded Bafana Bafana midfielder Ayanda Patosi has gone missing from his Belgian club again and now looks to have exhausted the patience of Lokeren.
The Cape Town-born Patosi is coming to the end of his contract but looks to have played his final game for the club.
“His story is closed‚” said the club’s technical director Willy Reynders after Patosi skipped training this week and a friendly match with the Dutch club Twente Enschede.
“Unless he has a convincing reason‚ we are going to cancel his contract.”
- Patosi gets lifeline at Lokeren‚ but future at the club in doubtBafana Bafana winger Ayanda Patosi is to be given yet another life at Lokeren‚ according to reports in Belgium.
Patosi has a long history of truancy and often been in trouble with clubs for coming back late from international duty or skipping training.
“It seems such a waste because if he had the personal discipline he would be an enormous talent‚” the Belgian newspaper Het Nieuwsblad commented on Friday.
Earlier this month Patosi ended a four-month spell without a start at Lokeren when he returned to the line-up in the same week in which he was dropped from the Bafana Bafana squad for the friendlies against Guinea-Bissau and Angola.
- Patosi frozen out at Lokeren after arriving late from Bafana Bafana dutyAyanda Patosi was forced to train on his own this week at Belgian side Lokeren after arriving back late from international duty with South Africa.
Patosi moved to Belgium in 2011 not long after being chosen as the best player at the Bayhill tournament where he played for Cape Town’s African Soccer Developments (ASD) academy.
The 24-year-old started 118 games for Lokeren and scored 24 times in seven seasons.
He was an unused substitute on both occasions when Lokeren won the Belgian Cup in 2012 ands 2014 and also played in the UEFA Europa League.
- TMG Digital/TMG Sport
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