Club sporting direct Kaizer Motaung Jnr has finally addressed the long-held their that PSL teams could be over-pricing their players when it comes to negotiating transfer fees with Kaizer Chiefs.
Amakhosi have got their January transfer window underway with the pending arrival of striker Tashreeq Morris from SuperSport United.
However, the Matsatsantsa striker was not Amakhosi's first choice. The Soweto giants have historically struggled to land their prime targets in the transfer window - leading some to suggest that teams spike up transfer fees when Amakhosi come knocking.
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Chiefs failed to sign Khanyisa Mayo from Cape Town City - who eventually joined Algerian side CR Belouizdad. They failed to sign Elias Mokwana from Sekhukhune United, as they did Fiston Mayele from Pyramids.
Chiefs are currently struggling to prize Oswin Appollis away from Polokwane City.
Motaung Jnr though has poured cold water over the suggestion that teams overprice players when negotiating with Chiefs, but rather is of the view that all teams simply want to keep their players.
"To be fair, I don't even want to entertain that," Motaung told journalists at the club's training base in Naturena.
"We are here. All the clubs in the league are our partners, our stakeholders. We need each other. They need us. We need them," the sporting director said.
"In a situation of us coming to the negotiation table, they will always have their standpoint to try and keep their best players.
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" If you had to ask anybody coming to us [saying] 'sell us Shabalala', and we say 'No'. It's part of the negotiations. It's part of the industry, it's part of the business. They have their goals to achieve, and we have ours.
"It's just about us engaging in a positive way and trying as best as we can to achieve our goals. We have to respect them and they respect us. You will find that [reluctance to sell] worldwide."
Meanwhile, Chiefs are still expected to welcome more arrivals in the remaining two weeks of the window.