After staring for Mamelodi Sundowns last season, Percy Tau will now be playing in the Belgium second division, which disappoints former Bafana Bafana captain Sibusiso ‘Rhee’ Zuma.
Tau was the standout player in the Absa Premiership last campaign as he helped fire Sundowns to a record eighth PSL title, picking up several individual awards along the way including the Footballer of the Year award.
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His performances caught the eye of clubs across Europe, with English Premier League outfit Brighton & Hove Albion winning the race for his signature.
However, Tau now finds himself at Royal Union Saint Gilloise in Belgium on a loan move due to work permit issues in England.
Zuma speaking with Independent Media revealed his disappointment in seeing Tau move to Belgium.
‘Obviously for a player like him, leaving the English Premier League and going to the second division in Belgium, I’m a little bit disappointed.
‘It really shows that our football is not doing well. We can’t have our top player in the second division in Belgium. This guy was picking up trophies and awards left, right and centre at home,’ Zuma said.
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‘Of course you have to understand that if you go to Brighton and they loan you out it means they see the potential in you.
‘But you don’t do that to players like Tau. For players who are still trying to establish themselves, okay they can go to the second division in Belgium.
‘I believe Percy was almost there. I was thinking maybe he’d make the bench of Brighton. I’m not saying I expected him to be in a starting line-up and bang goals from the word go,’ he added.
‘What happened to Percy just goes to show our level of football. Having said that I must mention that what they did in Percy does work. It is just that it happened to the wrong guy as we thought he was ready for the English Premiership.’