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TS Galaxy’s Sead Ramovic shares details of X-rated phone call with Mamelodi Sundowns coach Rhulani Mokwena

TS Galaxy ousted Sundowns in the <a href="https://www.goal.com/en-za/news/ts-galaxy-put-on-a-brave-fight-against-mamelodi-sundowns-b-team-to-advance-to-carling-knockout-cup-quarter-finals/blt5d7a6bb719086e52" target="_blank">Carling Knockout first round</a> in October 2023. The match saw the Brazilians without seven Bafana Bafana players, including captain Themba Zwane, goalkeeper Ronwen Williams, Khuliso Mudau, Aubrey Modiba, Grant Kekana, and Mothobi Mvala, who were on national duty in friendlies against Eswatini and Ivory Coast.&nbsp;Additionally, forwards Peter Shalulile and Lucas Ribeiro Costa were sidelined due to injury. Despite a 2-2 draw with the Rockets after extra time, Sundowns fell short in the penalty shootout.Following the match, Mokwena attributed their exit from the tournament to the absence of key players, which Ramovic viewed as merely an excuse.

WHAT HAPPENED?

Mokwena addressed the media before his team's Nedbank Cup Round of 32 clash against NB La Masia. During the press conference, he discussed the public criticism he received from Bafana Bafana head coach Hugo Broos in January. He also <a href="https://www.goal.com/en-za/lists/pretending-to-be-god-mamelodi-sundowns-rhulani-mokwena-responds-to-bafana-bafana-coach-hugo-broos-jibe/blt1be1054007022cf6#cs7cc55b4d3bcfba31" target="_blank">mentioned Ramovic</a>, stating that he had called him to express his discontent.“You are all familiar with some of the things my colleague at TS Galaxy [Sead Ramović] said and I picked up the phone and I called him directly and raised my displeasure,” Mokwena said.&nbsp;However, Ramovic has now come forward, indicating that Mokwena's dialogue was riddled with explicit language, which he found unacceptable.

THE BIGGER PICTURE

“I didn’t come to South Africa to argue with anyone, my goal was not to fight with anyone. I didn’t come here to make any headlines. I came here that my team improves, that my club improves, that maybe one day when I leave my club the new coach will find a top club and he can will continue to have even more success – this is my goal,” he told the media.“If somebody like he did to undermine or disrespect my players, the hard work they do every day and if we win a game against them we should all know they are spending over R150 million over the last two seasons for players. It means they have a squad with just unbelieveable quality.“And if a coach loses against us, that he brought players from NFD, brought players from U21, and they see that TS Galaxy does not have this financial power, but we have to find ways how we can succeed and I think that we do a very good job,” he continued.“If I see my players every day how hard they work, I will always protect [them], I will always raise my voice, if somebody – doesn’t matter who it is – disrespect my players, disrespect the value of my club, my staff, of me and this is what he did.“He came with that cheap excuse that he didn’t have his seven [Bafana] players. So it means that he disrespected first of all his own players that played and when you see his own players they had on the field against us, top class. With this team he can also win a league. But if he feels that he cannot have a plan B, it also speaks to his quality and I don’t want to go there, and I don’t care. I care that we have principles, I have values and I care about my players and no one will disrespect the hard work they did on this day to win against Sundowns.”

WHAT RAMOVIC SAID?

Ramovic then recounted a conversation where Mokwena contacted him, disclosing some of the forceful language purportedly employed by the Sundowns coach.“When you talk to someone [in private] it should stay with what you talk, and you cannot go then afterwards again into the public [and say] ‘I did this and this’ and now we have to finish the sentence.“So Rhulani didn’t call me after it happened, it was on the 13th of November, I raised my voice that he disrespected my players, me, my staff and the club. I didn’t attack him, I just protected my players and I will not let anyone disrespect them. After a month, 29th of December, we were in the bus to Mbombela, (Khuliso) Mudau came to me when he saw me in a mall and he asked me ‘coach, when are you going to buy me?’ (with a smile). I told him I can’t buy you because you are too expensive,” he added.“He asked me then ‘why you fight with my coach?’ and I told him, it is not my goal to fight with anybody. I explained him exactly the same things I explained to you. ‘I will let not let anyone… and please tell your coach to stop undermining your colleagues and their work, and stop to undermining my players’.“What happened, I got a call from him during the bus drive to Mbombela. I pick up the phone and he started to yell, to scream and he told me – I will just make it short because he spoke to me for 10 minutes with a lot of nonsense – but what he told it was ‘who the f*** are you to come to my f***ing country and talk to me like this?’ I just quote him. ‘Do you know who my parents are? Be careful how you talk because you are in my f***ing country’.“After that, I told him that I don’t care who your parents are and then he dropped the phone. This was his high standard of morals.“I was very disappointed. I can tell you, because I think to get treated from a colleague like this is a very, very small-minded talk. I’d like to clarify now, Sundowns is a beautiful club with a high standard of morals, the players are also top. It’s just a case of his behaviour and me now. Again, I have principles and I have values and I stick to them,” he concluded.

AND WHAT MORE?

Although Ramovic's recent remarks may spark intrigue, it remains uncertain whether the coaches will reconcile or if further drama will unfold.&nbsp;Meanwhile, they must redirect their attention to their respective clubs as the second half of the season is in full swing.Ramovic's Rockets are set to clash with Golden Arrows in the Nedbank Cup Round of 32 on Friday, February 23rd, while Sundowns are gearing up for Caf Champions League action against FC Nouadhibou on Saturday, February 24th.

WHAT NEXT FOR RAMOVIC AND MOKWENA? 

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