Eagle may not land for Downs

TUSSLE: Ejike Uzoenyi with Adama Tamboura of Mali during the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations Photo: Steve Haag/Getty Images
TUSSLE: Ejike Uzoenyi with Adama Tamboura of Mali during the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations Photo: Steve Haag/Getty Images

ANOTHER Mamelodi Sundowns foreign winger, Ejike Uzoenyi, will leave the team without having kicked the ball for the club.

Offers are allegedly pouring in for the 24-year-old Nigerian.

Sundowns also allowed Zimbabwean midfielder Kudakwashe Mahachi, who recently signed a four-year contract with them, to go for trials with French club AS Monaco.

According to Downs coach Pitso Mosimane there are already offers for the Nigerian midfielder who is in the Super Eagles squad at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

The Brazilians have resigned themselves to the fact that they will lose the two players.

"Mahachi will leave soon for AS Monaco for trials and I firmly believe that he will make the grade there," Mosimane said.

"In the meantime we are looking at several offers for Uzoenyi."

Uzoenyi, who joined the Brazilians from Enugu Rangers in Nigeria, will be remembered for scoring two classic goals against Bafana Bafana which saw the South Africans bomb out of the African Nations Championship in Cape Town in January.

No stranger to overseas football, Uzoenyi has played for one of the French teams Rennes FC.

He signed for Sundowns five months ago but remained with Rangers on loan until the end of the season.

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