Percy Tau has opened up about how he was displeased by Bafana Bafana coach Hugo Broos after the tactician publicly spoke about his issues at Al Ahly.
Tau was left out of most of Bafana Bafana squads for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations over what Broos described as the player not being in the right frame of mind as his future at Al Ahly was uncertain with the club looking to offload him.
The winger would later leave the Egyptian giants in January this year to Qatar SC, ending months of speculation over his future, but he was not impressed by how the national team coach handled his issues most of which he says were untrue.
“A lot of times [he has said something that I did not feel was right] and I have engaged with him about that,” Tau said on Marawa Sports Worldwide.
What did Percy Tau not like from coach Broos?
“It was these issues of [Al] Ahly when there was just so much reporting from Ahly, one of those was saying I was having depression, mentally, going for therapy and he also came and spoke out about that.
“And I said coach, ‘I think mental issue is a serious issue, you shouldn’t take it lightly’. If we were to engage about that don’t take it from the outside at least speak to me and engage with me and ask me; ‘Percy, are you really struggling, what’s happening?’”
Tau says there was a lot of misreporting about his situation at Al Ahly which he had no control of and it gave Broos a wrong picture of what he was going through at the Cairo Red Devils.
“Because when you read about it from the media, it loses its value whereby mental health is a serious issue and I’m not going through that,” Tau further said.
Lion of Judah disappointed by untrue reports
“So, what I was dealing with in Egypt, there was just so much media a lot of the reporting 90 per cent was incorrect and the 10 per cent was when I’m on the pitch either we lose, or I assisted or I scored that was correct, but the rest of the things were just people making it up.
“And of course, the coach is in South Africa, he reads these things, and he cares about the player he wants to engage, and he speaks out. But I said the approach could have been ‘let’s at least speak on the phone so that you understand that I have no mental issues. It's just these people who are reporting and I cannot go every time and reply to them because I still have to play football’.
Tau returned to the national team this year for the 2026 World Cup qualifiers in March after moving to Qatar but he finds himself without a club after being released by the Doha-based side this month.
