Baxter admits interest in Letsholonyane

SuperSport United coach Stuart Baxter has admitted that he will be the first to “queue” for Reneilwe Letsholonyane's signature.

Baxter, however, insisted that he is not trying to destabilise the player's current club, Kaizer Chiefs.

The Englishman worked with Letsholonyane during the Baxter's stint as Chiefs coach and there have been reports suggesting the duo could re-unite at SuperSport United.

"I can't attract Kaizer Chiefs to SuperSport United. I will be very pompous if I was to sit and say, 'I can bring Shabba [Siphiwe Tshabalala] or Bernard [Parker] here, because if a Kaizer Chiefs player is happy there then I can't attract him. But if any of the Kaizer Chiefs players, not just Yeye [Letsholonyane], are not happy and they are going to leave Kaizer Chiefs, I'm gonna be in the queue," he said.

"Now, does that mean I'm calling people to bring them here? No, because I'm a realist. A [Chiefs] player will laugh at me and say, 'Coach, what am I going to come to you for when I'm playing at the biggest club in South Africa?"

"So anybody thinking I am able to destablise Kaizer Chiefs is talking nonsense... The second I know that Yeye has made his mind up to leave Chiefs, he knows I will be interested," Baxter clarified.

Letsholonyane's contract with Chiefs expires at the end of June.