Baxter: Uncertainty not helping us

Baxter has held talks with the South African Football Associations over taking over as the Bafana Bafana head coach, but as yet there is no clarity over whether he will join the senior national team for a second spell.

SuperSport have fallen away in the Absa Premiership title race since the club announced at the end of March that they had agreed to let Baxter talk to Safa, losing at home to Baroka FC and twice in a week to Mamelodi Sundowns in the Tshwane derby.

“It is very difficult to quantify how people feel and get inside their heads, but undoubtedly the uncertainty is not helping us,” said Baxter on Thursday.

“People also saying things that are not true in newspapers about me or the situation is also not helpful,” he added in apparent reference to his reported salary demands with Bafana and to reports that he asked for his son, Lee, to be goalkeeper coach.

“Without being able to quantify it, it would certainly be one of the ingredients in sapping energy, like traveling and overloading has, and tough games week after week … to say how much (the situation) is affecting us is difficult, but it is not helpful.”