Kaizer Chiefs legend Itumeleng Khune believes Bruce Bvuma is struggling for consistency at the club because he refused to learn from him, as opposed to Mamelodi Sundowns shot-stopper Ronwen Williams.
The 37-year-old Amakhosi legend worked with both goalkeepers at different levels. He served the Glamour Boys with Bvuma for many years while Williams was his understudy at Bafana Bafana for a decade.
Khune argues the Masandawana custodian was always ready to listen and apply what he was being told, but Bvuma wasn't ready.
“I was grooming Ronwen [Williams]; When he came to Bafana, I told him we are not here to make friends. We are here to compete. You make me better, I make you better, we make the national team better. So, he took those words, and I fail to understand why Bruce Bvuma didn’t listen to that advice,” Khune told iDiski Times.
‘Struggling Bvuma should have taken my advice'
“Because now, the way he’s struggling, he should have taken my advice when I gave it to him. He could be number one still, he could be one of the best candidates in the team and the national team. But now he’s also inconsistent because he thought I play with Itu in the same team so I can’t take his advice, but someone who came from outside appreciated my words. Now he has taken football by storm. He’s been to the FIFA Ballon d’Or awards, and I communicate with him almost every day,” he continued.
“He is the boy who listened at a very young age. Ronwen and I spent more than 10 years together at Bafana. He knew when he was coming to camp, Itu is number one. He kept telling me I want to be number one, one day, and I was like ‘If you want that, we are not here to be friends, you must work hard for it. Perform at your club, come to the national team, perform at training, maybe the coach will give it to you.
“But at my prime, I was always up there, and I was like, no one is going to come in to take my number one,” Khune concluded.
