Cardoso warns Sundowns about people who want to hurt them with Mosimane rumours

Mamelodi Sundowns went top of the Premier Soccer League table on Tuesday night after a 2-0 win over Orbit College at the Loftus Versfeld Stadium.

Goals from Arthur Sales and new signing Brayan Leon were enough to hand the Mswenko Boys a loss in their first game in 2026. The defending champions have now collected 29 points from 14 games, one point more than second-placed Orlando Pirates who have played two games less.

After the game, coach Miguel Cardoso capitalised on that chance to address the reported Pitso Mosimane return.

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We want to please our fans

“The problem is nowadays, people discuss football on the phone, and they speak about things they have absolutely no idea of. That gives a lot of echo to things that don’t even exit. And that is a question, people are discussing things that they would like to happen,” he told the media.

“Having a phone, a blog and some followers give echo to people that don’t know what they are speaking about. Look, Sundowns is a club that’s ruled from the inside to the outside not the other way around.

“There’s a strong leadership, strong sport direction, a strong coach and a strong locker room. The doors of Chloorkop are strong that those things like that don’t enter, we are united.

“We are working hard to please our fans. And we need them not to be let themselves be poisoned by the outside, keep supporting us,” Cardoso added.

Someone wants to hurt Sundowns?

“There’s people that want to hurt Sundowns, there’s clearly people that want hurt people in charge of Sundowns – coaches, players and everything. But they will be frustrated because we are strong, very, very strong. Regarding my future, don’t worry about my future because it doesn’t depend on football,” Cardoso further claimed.

“It’s just my professional life that depends on football. It’s completely different, my future depends on music, nature and cycling than on football. When we cycled with my brother, he told me, ‘Don’t throw rocks on every dog that barks at you, you won’t arrive at your destination’. 

“I’m coaching a big team, I’ll be criticised everyday. The question is how much importance I’ll give to that, I’ll not give any importance to it.

“I’ll be here until the club decides [otherwise], until then, I’ll be committed, excited and motivate my players to do their best. I’m already too old to worry about things that are just noise,” he concluded.