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Chiefs striker ranks amongst the worst ever at the club

Efmamjjasond Gonzalez will head back to South America having left himself only in contention for the wooden spoon for the time he has spent at Kaizer Chiefs.

Gonzalez joined Chiefs at the beginning of the season on loan from Bolivian club Real Santa Cruz.

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It was hoped that he would do better than Burundian striker Bonfils-Caleb Bimenyimana, who scored eight goals in 21 appearances throughout the one season that he spent at Chiefs before being sacrificed.

The big Colombian has turned into a disastrous signing with no goals to show in 13 games.

Gonzalez has failed to play any match from start to finish, including the four that he has started.

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Instead of providing the solutions up front for Chiefs, the 24-year-old has become part of the problems.

The only memories that he will have upon heading back to South America at the end of the month is the money that he has earned and the late substitute appearance he made in the last Soweto Derby.

Gonzalez is now merely waiting for the completion of the season to then move back to Bolivia with Chiefs not taking up the option of turning his stay into a permanent deal.

The agreement was that Chiefs would activate a permanent transfer should they be happy with what they see during the loan season.

After having also failed to score in his last nine games at Santa Cruz, it means Gonzalez has failed to deliver a goal in 22 matches inclusive of those he has played at Chiefs.

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What Gonzalez has done at Chiefs throws him into the same classification as Halidou Malam, Wasiu Ipaye, Lazarous Kambole, Michelle Katsvairo, Luke Jukulile Petros, Ibe Zito Ogbonna, Serge Djiehoua and Louis Agyemang.

These are all foreign strikers that failed to deliver on what they were brought to do at Chiefs.

The worst was Malam, who couldn't score a single goal in six appearances after being signed at the beginning of the 1999/00 season.

For years, this has remained as the signing that Chiefs should have never made, but in Gonzalez, it appears the Cameroonian finally has competition.

Both are of similar physique with a clumsy touch on the ball.

Then there was Ipaye, who came in during the 1997/98 season after having played for Nigeria at the 1985 U20 World Cup.

As was expected, he was shown the door at the end of that season but was lucky that he at least scored one goal, which came against Vaal Professionals.

Big Nigerian striker Ogbonna did score four goals during the seven months he spent at Chiefs, but there was no question why he was then quickly released.

What he showed on the pitch and his injury proneness explained why he came to Chiefs as a free agent in November 2008.

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Then there was the Zimbabwean pair of Jukulile and Katsvairo, who both didn't have the best of times at Chiefs.

Jukulile might have been prolific back home, but when he arrived at Chiefs in July 2000, he froze and was gone within two years having scored five goals.

Katsvairo scored twice during the 2016/17 season and wasn't worth it all at.

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Agyemang had good touches on the ball throughout the two years he spent at Chiefs (2005-07) but tended to look tired through games and was offloaded after failing to score a single goal in his second season.

For Djiehoua, he just didn't live up to expectations after being brought in as replacement for Collins Mbesuma in 2005.

Only his physique stood out.

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