Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates may not be able to compete with Mamelodi Sundowns due to differences in financial budgets but why are they behind SuperSport United and Cape Town City on the league standings?
Sundowns continued to flex their financial power with their January signings of Matias Esquivel, Tashreeq Matthews and even the capture of Thembinkosi Lorch from rivals Pirates, as they spent well over what the Buccaneers and Chiefs can afford.
The Brazilians' financial strength is one of the big reasons they dominate local football, although it doesn't give them an automatic right to win matches.
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Amakhosi and the Sea Robbers have been known to have bigger budgets than the rest of the teams in the PSL but currently neither of them is close to Sundowns on the table, as the Citizens are lying second while third spot is occupied by SuperSport.
Matsatsantsa head coach Gavin Hunt has revealed the secret to the teams doing better than the Soweto giants currently in the DStv Premiership.
"I don't think it's what they (Chiefs and Pirates) are doing wrong, I can only speak on my own personal view, I think what we try to do is to get the team organized and I always say the best team in the league generally has got the best players," Hunt said on This Is Football Africa YouTube Channel.
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"But if you go down the league the teams that are doing well are teams that are organized without the ball and I always say we need to be good without the ball.
"You need players who are humble to play without the ball, it's not a nice thing chasing and running. In South African football I think there's a lot of ill-discipline in the teams and you'll find a lot of counter-attack, transitional football, because teams don't play to a solution they just play and the ball gets turned over and there's a hell of a counter-attack," he added.
Pirates and Chiefs are lying fifth and sixth on the table respectively.
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