Another Kaizer Chiefs Football Club player has found himself a new home after parting ways with Amakhosi some couple of months ago.
In case you missed it, Serbian player who is former Kaizer Chiefs FC and Royal AM striker Samir Nurkovic has got a new home after leaving Chiefs last year. Nurkovic penned a contract with TS Galaxy of the chairman Tim Sugazi.
Lot of things happened since Samir leaving Chiefs. He joined Royal AM, unfortunately, things did not go according to his way. He only played one game, it was against Kaizer Chiefs FC in Macufe cup. He was not playing because of injuries, that are know as things that set players back. Royal AM management had to part ways with Nurkovic due to injuries, they were also force to compensate Samir with R12 000 000.00 as to terminate his contract.
We have contacted our analyser, regarding Samir Nurkovic at his time with Chiefs.
“No striker in that Kaizer Chiefs FC team is on the level of Samir Nurkovic.
“Parker has never scored fourteen goals in a PSL season. Parker has never scored a brace in a CAF Champions League match. Leonardo Castro has never passed the ten goals mark in his PSL season’s. Bernard Parker has never registered seven assists in a single season.
“There are a lot of things i can say about Samir Nurkovic. Did you know that Samir Nurkovic has won more PSL man of the match awards than Bernard Parker and Leo Castro combined since joining Kaizer Chiefs?
“Castro has three Kaizer Chiefs FC man of the match awards for Kaizer Chiefs FC. Bernard Parker i do not even remember the last time he won the man of the match award at Chiefs maybe 2017.” – our analyser said.
Here are career stats for Leonardo Castro and Samir Nurkovic, as at August 2021.
LEONARDO CASTRO CAREER STATS.
Games: two hundred and fifty nine.
Goals: sixty one.
Assists: twenty four.
SAMIR NURKOVIC CAREER STATS.
Games: hundred and eighty seven.
Goals: eighty three.
Assists: eighteen.
Leonardo Castro is thirty two years old.
Samir Nurkovic is twenty nine years old.
After parting ways with Samir Nurkovic, Kaizer Chiefs FC signed some players as strikers to replace him. Chiefs signed;
1. Christian Saile.
2. Ranga Chivaviro.
3. Caleb Bimenyimana.
4. Gonzalez.
5. Wandile Duba.
6. Ashely Du Preez.
Caleb Bimenyimana was signed by Amakhosi from Burundi, and both parties have already decided to part ways. Wandile Duba is a young striker who was promoted from the development team. He is yet to get some minutes this season.