Agent reveals Asanele Velebayi toll of Cape Town Spurs dispute

Speaking exclusively to SABC Sport this week, Lance Davids said the Urban Warriors had no right to block the 22-year-old’s dream move after their relegation to the ABC Motsepe League. 

Spurs accused Davids, a former Bafana Bafana international, of acting “unethically” in facilitating Velebayi’s exit, an allegation he has firmly rejected. 

"I've said this to many people and I'll always say this, I will never go on social media about these types of things but, to be honest, the Velebayi saga is not a new rule," said Davids.

"It's an old rule that's been there for years, and nothing has changed. In my opinion, I've been in many cases with Cape Town Spurs or Ajax Cape Town, and this is what these people do – they drill and make it out to be whatever they say.

"'Oh, we love our boys,' and this – so you will fight your own son for something that's good for him, so just to make it easier for everyone, and for myself it was draining – and not in a bad way, I knew what the outcome would be in the end.

"It doesn't matter if we lost the case in South Africa, which we would never lose, but then we have to go to FIFA, and at FIFA it's clear that if you're an amateur or go into the amateur ranks, you can't have a professional player playing in the amateur ranks."

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Davids, a former Spurs player from when it was still known as Ajax Cape Town, sympathised but said the rules would not have changed out of pity. 

"I was so happy and, unfortunately, with Asanele, he must not know the legalities and things so it was draining for him, and as an ex-player, it's not nice," he elaborated.

"You want to go now on your new journey and start off, so it was draining for him, but in my opinion it was a very straightforward case – I don't know why everyone was making out like, 'Wow, we feel sorry for Cape Town Spurs.'

"Yes, of course, Cape Town's football has now gone a little bit down because of their situation, and yes they developed good players and they've been good with giving youngsters the opportunity.

"But I think they were 100 percent wrong in what they were doing, it was not right, and everyone that knows football and inside the football fraternity, they knew this case would never be won by Spurs, there's no chance."