“It was never about the price, there were two teams who were interested, one of them was AmaZulu, but they were offering peanuts,” Mpengesi told KickOff.
“There were talks that we had with Kaizer Chiefs before the end of the season. But then we saw Kaizer Chiefs signing another goalkeeper. For Kaizer Chiefs, we were even gonna give them, and the price was not even that high. We were more looking at the interest of the player you know, he was going to play for a big club, because I mean AmaZulu and Chippa are almost the same WhatsApp group, and you still get peanuts.”
“In their judgment, the Galaxy keeper is better than our keeper, which is something where I’m sitting, I dispute, but that’s water under the bridge. It has nothing to do with value, any offer we would have taken into consideration, but I mean what AmaZulu were offering was peanuts; they wanted us to give them Nwabali and Eva Nga for peanuts. That was a disrespect,” Mpengesi concluded.
Nwabali kept two clean sheets for the Super Eagles during the September international break and is in top form going into the PSL season next weekend.