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Noel Munzabwa
ZIMBABWE-born Matsapha United striker has swum out of the Deep Blue Ocean barely six months after joining the MTN Premier League of Swaziland (Eswatini) outfit, once dubbed the emblem of football professional set-up.
Is the Deep Blue Ocean now running dry? Such is the big question given that there are four players angling for the exit with the quartet of goalkeeper Khanyakwezwe Shabalala, defenders Jimoh Moses and Sabelo Sawa Gamedze and midfielder Vusumuzi Zungu reportedly training with rivals Mbabane Highlanders.
And the club had hoped to retain Verenga for the forthcoming season due to begin in August, such a hope will have to be lost as the Zimbabwean has literally shut the door on the club, once home to former Warriors assistant coach Saul Chaminuka.
Chaminuka who had brought the countryman to the club during the January transfer window period quit in a huff in February after allegedly falling out with a member of the management committee over imposition of match day players.
This week, Verenga, holed up in Johannesburg where he has been recovering from an ankle injury picked during the cluba��s SwaziBank Cup penalty defeat to Mbabane Highlanders confirmed his exit but could not proffer his reasons.
a�?I will be a free agent after the 30th of June 2018 when my contract expires and one thing I can say is I will not be returning to Matsapha United. I have not received any offers, neither have I decided on my next destination.
a�?My stay at the club got off to a promising start before administrative problems crept in, making it all difficult for me and to reconsider my future at the club. I would like to thank the club for the brief stay and would like to wish them well in their future endeavours,a�? said Verenga.
A scorer of five goals, the former Dynamos forward arrived in January from South Africaa��s Highlands Park exactly two years after departing from Malanti Chiefs, another Eswatini outfit where he again scored five goals.
The Eswatini club could remain Zimbabwe a�� less with the uncertainty shrouding the future of the unsettled head of publicity, who administered the various communication fronts a�� website and social networks.
After a promising start to the past season the club slumped from the third position on the log standing at the departure of Chaminuka to a closing ninth falling out of the prize money rewarding top six. .
Online Reporter