Keagan Dolly will watch the end of his third season at Kaizer Chiefs with gloom written on his face.
Chiefs will finish what has been a disappointing campaign with a trip to Cape Town Spurs, playing only to try and finish in position eight.
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It has been worse for Dolly, whose injury concerns have come towards the end of his bumper contract at the club, where his future is no longer guaranteed.
A few days ago, Chiefs legend Mohammed Ouseb detailed that for Dolly to continue at Naturena, then he will have to take a heavy pay cut that will leave him earning less than half of what he gets now.
Eight appearances totalling 470 minutes this season, no goal in over a year, and a frequency of injury is not what is expected of a top earner at the Soweto giants at age 31.
Those injuries will have meant no contribution in 27 games this term from Dolly by the time the full-time whistle goes at DHL Cape Town Stadium on Saturday.
Chiefs have confirmed that Dolly will be absent.
"There have been no recoveries insofar as injuries are concerned for Chiefs.
"Players such as George Matlou, Keagan Dolly, Reeve Frosler, Dillan Solomons and Tebogo Potsane are still nursing an assortment of ailments," said the club this week.
In his first two seasons at Naturena, the pint-sized attacker was on eight goals (plus five assists) and six goals (plus five assists).
While the trophy drought cannot be blamed on him as he arrived at the club when they had already walked six years in the silverware darkness alley, he was expected to make a difference by aiding the Chiefs push.
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Unfortunately, it didn't happen, and focus has now fallen on what has been his package at Amakhosi instead of what he has done for the club.
Out of contract at the end of June and struggling with injury is not the combination that Dolly would have preferred at this juncture.
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