SuperSport to be sold to Bloem Celtic?

Celtic, better known as Phunya Sele Sele or Siwelele with their colourful green and white kit, were sold to Royal AM by their previous owners before the start of 2021-2022 season.

Royal AM has since been expelled from the elite league by the Premier Soccer League after their owner Shaun Mkhize was alleged to have ran into problems with the SA Revenue Service which accused her of owing more than R40m in taxes.

TimesLIVE is awaiting a response from SuperSport after questions were sent to the club chair Khulu Sibiya and media officer Brian Moshoeshoe who both didn’t respond before this story was published.

A question was also sent to the minister’s spokesperson Stacey-Lee Khojane but no response was received by the time of publishing. 

But in other reports SuperSport CEO Stan Matthews was quoted dismissing the speculation, saying since 2019 there’s been rumours of the club being sold.

Matthews said as far as he knows the club’s main focus for now is to avoid relegation after starting the season badly which resulted in the sacking of coach Gavin Hunt.

Former Bafana Bafana goalkeeper Andre Arendse is currently the caretaker coach at 13th-placed SuperSport and they have four matches to finish the season.