Players and officials at the headquarters of the League defending champions Kaizer Chiefs are fuming at The Star's Nkareng Matshe's Saturday article "Second Best is not good enough for Chiefs" published on Saturday.

Speaking after a Tuesday training session from Naturena this week head coach Ted Dumitru labelled Matshe as 'misled and ignorant new kid who is perpetuating a certain agenda', following his players' complaints about the Saturday Star article where Matshe said players like Scara Ngobese, David Mathebula and Simphiwe Mbambo 'were perceived rejects and unknowns who sent murmurs of disbelief when they were paraded as new additions in July'.

"Obviously the departure of Jabu Pule and Brian Baloyi just like Stanton Fredericks, meant losing good players but we have an equally good squad this season, and with 4 games only played so far in the Premiership, it is too prematured for anyone to start labelling the new players here 'rejects' and assasinating their characters like Matshe does.

"We have a moral obligation to groom some of the players who came from relatively smaller clubs to be on the same mentality with the rest of the squad and this kind of distructive critism does not help the process. Pity he does not see what we see in these players, from a long-term point of view. For him to even suggest that Mbambo (Simphiwe) is a 'reject' shows a painful sense of emptiness in the author because the boy is our own product who was loaned out to Dynamos. Who's reject is he then?" asked a fuming Dumitru.

Dumitru concluded by saying even if Kaizer Chiefs would consult journalists before buying new players Nkareng Matshe's opinion would never matter because 'he does not know what he writes about and it's a shameful reflection on the publication he serves,' he said.

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