Miguel Cardoso distances coaching as a problem for unsettled and wayward midfielder Monnapule Saleng

Miguel Cardoso has cleared the air that Monnapule Saleng's issues at Mamelodi Sundowns may be coach related.

Saleng has not bee active at the club with reports of ill-discipline punctuating his stay at Chloorkop.

Cardoso has come out to clear that he has made all possible in his power to make Saleng feel at home at the club.

“It was never a coach issue. He was always a player we gave a lot, a lot, a lot of effort. We tried to push him so much toward the group, toward the dynamic of the group, towards the behaviours that a professional player has to have, the mental stability that a professional player has to have," said Cardoso on Saleng ahead of their clash against Golden Arrows tomorrow afternoon.

“But inside the group we have no issues, we have a lot of understanding about what are the rules and our locker room has rules, the players establish those, and relate, and when a player systematically breaks these kind of things towards the teammates, towards the coaches, towards the club, we don’t know what we can count on.

“So these things did not happen once, did not happen twice, three, four times… being the last to arrive, the first to go away."