Pitso Mosimane has come out guns blazing with regards to Mamelodi Sundowns attacker Gaston Sirino, with whom his Al Wahda side have been linked.
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Mosimane made a short-left to Mzansi where he was in town for the handover of the multipurpose sports court at Lofentse Girls High School in Orlando East, Soweto, which has been named after him.
But the 59-year-old coach used the opportunity to address the issues surrounding Sirino, a player he brought to the country from Bolivia in 2018.
Mosimane, as he was during his time at Al Ahly, has been linked with the Uruguayan star, who as confirmed by Mamelodi Sundowns coach Rulani Mokwena, has handed in a transfer request amid a bid from a team understood to be Mosimane's former team Al Ahly.
"I don't want to talk about Gaston Sirino, because this annoys me so much!" he told journalists.
"If we want Gaston Sirino, we go to Mamelodi Sundowns. There's rumours and rumours and there's been lot of talk.
"Does Sundowns want to sell Sirino? I don't know. Sundowns doesn't need money to sell Sirino, so sometimes those things are a lost cause.
"When I was at Al Ahly, yes, I wanted Sirino and you know what happened, we approached them, and we never got a price. If a player doesn't have a price, how do you buy him?
"Everyone has a price, [Kylian] Mpabbe has a price, there is €200 million [offered from Saudi Arabia] but Sirino doesn't have, so how do you buy a player without a price – where do you start?
"I don't want to go into the same setup when I advised Al Ahly that we should get Sirino, and we approached Sundowns in the office, and he didn't have a price – he still doesn't have a price. We don't buy players that don't have a price, there's no negotiations.
"It's lies, in fact, it's allegations that Al Wahda wants Sirino, people are tapping [up] Sirino, no! Remember they said we want [Thembinkosi] Lorch, no everyone says we want [Peter] Shalulile – if we want them, we'll approach the team. But there must be a price.
"I will never advise my team to buy a player that doesn't have a price and some transactions can be mixed up with emotions and a lot of things and is not done the right way.
"Of course, if Sirino is available, I would advise my office to say, let's speak to him. I know he is disgruntled; he is not playing. They don't want him, and he was dropped out of the team but it's not for me to use that opportunity.
"But he hasn't been playing since last year, this is not new. But the issue of Sirino is not nice because I would never advise Al Wahda to go for Gaston Sirino because he doesn't have a price – if Gaston Sirino has a price, we can talk yes.
"Neymar was bought, and you know how much PSG has, so is Sundowns selling? I don't know."
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