Sundowns manager: Onyango treatment 'unfair'

The comments, reported by Pulse Sports, don't spell out exactly what Onyango has gone through, whether it's about game time, fitness, a disciplinary call or something else entirely. What's clear is that the Sundowns boss felt strongly enough to say so out loud, using the word 'unfair' rather than the usual squad-management platitudes.

At a club with Sundowns' size and expectations in South African and CAF football, a manager airing grievances about a player's treatment is the kind of line that tends to get noticed in the dressing room before it gets noticed anywhere else. Whether this stays a passing quote or turns into something bigger, a transfer situation, a fallout, a public back-and-forth, isn't clear yet.

Flagside will follow this one. If Onyango's situation develops into an actual dispute at Mamelodi Sundowns, there's a real story here.