Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates have both been credited with an interest in Stellenbosch playmaker Junior Mendieta.
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It is Chiefs who have been credited with an interest in Mendieta more than Pirates in recent history, but it is being said that the Buccaneers are still in the picture.
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Mendieta has been one of the more consistent performers at Stellenbosch since joining the side and it is no surprise that he has often been linked to Chiefs and Pirates. Mendieta has been with Stellenbosch for three-years now and at the age of 30, a last opportunity of a big move to one of the Soweto giants could be too tempting to turn down. If it will, indeed, happen, however, remains to be seen.
Mendieta clause fee revealed to Chiefs and Pirates
If either Chiefs or Pirates is serious about prizing away Mendieta, it now appears that there is a way to sign him from Stellenbosch. It has been since revealed that there is a round figure of R12 million that is the official buyout clause of the Argentinians contract at the Cape Winelands club, according to Soccer-Laduma.
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“The latest news reaching the Siya Crew is that Chiefs, Pirates and Sekhukhune United have all enquired about what it would take to prize the Argentine away from Stellies and the answer is whopping R12 million inserted in his contract. According to well placed, Mendieta’s buy-out clause can be activated in the upcoming transfer window, owing to the fact that the 29-year-old will enter the last year of his contract at Stellies”. Wrote the publication.
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It now remains to be seen if any of either Chiefs, Pirates or even Sekhukhune will see it fit to spend as much as R12 million on a 29-year-old who they will be able to get for free at the end of the next season, should he not decided to sign a new deal with Stellenbosch.
