Former Bafana Bafana goalkeeper Roger de Sa has advised the South African Football Association (SAFA) not to be reckless when dealing with the issue of Lyle Foster.
SAFA has promised to deal with the Burnley FC striker immediately after they landed in the country.
Forster was deemed to be not ready for the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations by the English Premier League club after mental health concerns.
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While Bafana were sweating it out at the AFCON, Foster continued to feature for his club Burnley.
"With Lyle Forster, ja I think we do need a goalscorer," De Sa tells KickOff.
"I think every country will want their goalscorer and he was the right guy for us, but at the same time, we can't be reliant on one person.
"From what I understood Lyle Foster had a bit of a mental issue and he was never coming.
"And we have to accept you know that he was not ready and we need somebody else we can't just rely on one player.
"You need to have more than one striker, you got to have a few more players available for Bafana to create competition.
"I think at the time of the call for the training camp up he wasn't ready, that can happen sometimes.
"A player is not ready, then two, or three weeks later he makes a return to his club and gets to play and perform.
"There are cut-off dates, there are cut-off times and people need to make decisions on those players who've got issues with injuries and mental issues, or whatever was the case, and they went with the cut-off time.
"Next time we need to look at him, I'm sure he is still on the coach's plans. I don't think SAFA should take any action, I don't know why they wanna take action.
"The guy was unavailable, if you are not available then somebody should respect that.
"If you want to use him the next match just give him a call-up."
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