Hugo Broos: Mbekezeli Mbokazi move to USA's Chicago Fire from Orlando Pirates is not a good move for the player but business for his agent

Mbekezeli Mbokazi’s move from Orlando Pirates to Chicago Fire in the USA is bound to fail.

The Bafana Bafana coach is against the player’s move to the MLS saying it’s not in the player’s interest to be plying his trade there. The move is said to be around R50-million.

It’s not the first time Hugo Broos is against a local player moving to the USA, as he also criticised Cassius Mailola, who left Mamelodi Sundowns for Toronto FC three years ago.

Now, the Bafana coach is singing the same tune on Mbokazi’s move.

"I think, no it’s not a good move. What is he going to do in Chicago?” Broos said also after slating the defender for arriving late in camp.

“It’s not even a cup team in America. If my info is right, they told me he’s playing MLS2, at the second team of Chicago – if it’s true, I don’t know I will ask him when I see him. That is even worse.

“But I know what happened, a woman who is his agent and think she knows football is doing what many agents are doing and thinking ‘how much can I get’. If she is a little bit clever, she knows there is AFCON and next year it’s World Cup, that there will be other teams, better for his career, to go to and not to Chicago.

“What is he going to do there alone there in a big city like that? So no, I don’t think it’s a good choice.”