Patrice Motsepe with Pitso Mosimane during the Mamelodi Sundowns media briefing at Hyundai Head Office. (Photo by Lee Warren/Gallo Images)
It has been Sundowns tradition under Motsepe’s leadership to give the prize money to the technical team and the players, but Motsepe says the winner’s cheque has never been enough to divide it among everyone and he is always forced to add more, although he shied away from disclosing a figure.
“We are going to have to add a little bit more and we have done it before. A smaller nyana, that’s what we have always done,” said Motsepe.
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“The prize money belongs to them but the problem is, they’ll get the R10-million and then they divide it, then there are some who got injured who would’ve played. It always happens on what the prize money is because I have to maintain the morale and the excitement,” he added.
Motsepe continued: “When I got into football, one of the main objectives that I had was to try and make sure that the salaries, the living conditions of the players get improved. I knew that if pay them very well, the other clubs will do the same and I am very proud. But at times I have to be careful.
“These players have a short period to generate income, they have to make as much money as possible while they play football. They need to use some of that money to invest so it can look after them when they don’t play football anymore. It saddens me when I meet a football player who played for Sundowns whilst I was the president and you can see that his financial position is not what it should be.”
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