{"id":5286,"date":"2025-11-05T10:55:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T08:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swazidailynews.com\/?p=5286"},"modified":"2025-11-05T10:55:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T08:55:34","slug":"maniema-tables-e250-000-bid-for-junior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genesisekucalenimedia.com\/edn\/5286\/sports\/soccer\/maniema-tables-e250-000-bid-for-junior\/","title":{"rendered":"Maniema tables E250 000 bid for Junior"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Sibusiso Masilela<br \/><br \/>Royal Leopards midfield dynamo Junior Magagula could soon ply his trade out of the country.<br \/><br \/>This follows a E250 000 bid by DR Congo side AS Maniema for the services of the former Moneni Pirates player.<br \/><br \/>Magagula impressed the Congolese side during the recent CAF Confederation Cup assignment between the clubs.<br \/><br \/>A source close to the matter revealed that talks between the two sides are proceeding smoothly.<br \/><br \/>\u201cManiema has tabled an E250 000 bid for Junior through the facilitator of the deal, Alimas Bin Saleh famously known as Adebayor. Talks could be concluded in the next fourth night,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5293\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5293\" style=\"width: 1158px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5293\" src=\"https:\/\/genesisekucalenimedia.com\/edn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Junior-Magagula-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1158\" height=\"772\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5293\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Junior Magagula.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Leopard Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Frank Hurube could not comment on the matter when compiling the report after his cell phone rang unanswered.<br \/><br \/>Magagula could become the third Liswati to ply his trade in the diamond-rich African state after the duo of Felix \u2018Fela\u2019 Badenhorst and Mthunzi \u2018Xavi\u2019 Mkhontfo, who were previously in the books of AS Vita club.<br \/><br \/>He could become the country\u2019s sixth foreign-based players after Lindo Mkhonta(Zesco United, Zambia), Justice Figareido (Chippa United, South Africa), Mxolisi Mkhonto (Morapule Wanderers, Botswana), Banele \u2018Stiga\u2019 Ndzabandzaba (Botswana Defence Force), and Sizwe Gwebu (Uganda Police).<\/p>\n<p><strong><div class=\"_df_book df-lite\" id=\"5258\"  data-title=\"\" wpoptions=\"true\" thumbtype=\"\" ><\/div><\/strong><br \/><br \/>The player has numerous Sihlangu caps under the guidance of various coaches such as Kostadin Papic, Dominic Kunene, Zdravko Logarusic, and the incumbent Sifiso \u2018Nuro\u2019Ntibane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Sibusiso Masilela Royal Leopards midfield dynamo Junior Magagula could soon ply his trade out of the country.&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"csco_display_header_overlay":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,43],"tags":[46,39,58,53,68],"class_list":["post-5286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","category-sports","tag-africa","tag-entertainment","tag-national","tag-soccer","tag-sport","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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