What are the facts?

Mmodi wants to leave Arrows for a big club, and has previously admitted as much. The attacker’s drop in form at the start of the season is proof that keeping an unhappy player in a team can be bad news for camp vibes, but the club’s technical team has done well to lift his energy and to keep him focused and performing. Despite not being an out-and-out striker, Mmodi has already netted four goals and bagged one assist. The in-form player is third on the goal scorers’ charts in the league, behind only to Peter Shalulile, Bonfils-Caleb Bimenyimana and Bradley Grobler, who’re all strikers. None of the players from Bucs are in the picture. Top players are in demand in Mzansi’s topflight, with Mmodi no exception, and Arrows know that he is a transfer target of some of their rivals in the league. The KZN club previously said that they would not stand in the player’s way when the right offer comes his way.

“But what I said to Pule from the first training session we had on our return, because I knew what was happening in his mind already then, was for him to perform. But Pule knows very well that the team doesn’t have a problem with him wanting to go somewhere, but Pule has a contract with us and if he wants to go, whoever that wants him must buy him. We are willing as a club to let him go wherever he is wanted, we will release him, but obviously there will have to be talks with that team. That didn’t happen, although there were talks that (Kaizer) Chiefs wanted Pule and this and that, but there was no offer that was made to Golden Arrows,” cocoach Vilakazi said in his interview with Soccer Laduma, in part. Considering that most pro footballers in Mzansi are in their prime in their late 20s to early 30s, at 29 Mmodi is at the right age to make a big move.