Why Chiefs would never have gotten Frosler for free…

Reeve Frosler finally completed a move to Kaizer Chiefs last week, on the last day of the Premier Soc- cer League’s transfer deadlinedeadline, with ith Amakhosi agreeing terms with Bidvest Wits with regards to the early release of the player.

The 21-year-old penned a pre-contract at Naturena in early January after he decided that his future would lie away from the Braamfontein-based club, though indications are that Chiefs’ intentions of bringing him on board in January was always the plan.

The young Bafana Bafana international came through the youth ranks at Wits, having joined them as a young teenager, and the fact that he is still under the age of 23 means that even if Chiefs had waited until July 1st, they would have had to pay training compensation in order to snap him up.

Training compensation is a financial reimbursement to a player’s training club (or clubs) either when they sign their first professional contract or on each transfer until their 23rd birthday.

Given the situation, it is understood that Chiefs will have added a normal transfer fee (the amount is not known at this point) on top of the training compensation – thought to be around R250 000 – that was already owed to the Clever Boys for their role in his development.

Frosler has now been registered by Chiefs with the Premier Soccer League and is free to make his debut – however, it remains to be seen when he will be given the chance to do so given the fact that he has faced a spell on the sidelines at Wits over the course of the 2018/19 season.