Siphiwe Tshabalala caught in the middle of ‘war’

Siphiwe Tshabalala has found himself in the middle of a ‘war’. Kaizer Chiefs boss lady Jessica Motaung and football agent Jazzman Mahlakgane are fighting over Siphiwe’s image rights.

If the matter is not resolved in his favor, Jazzman has threatened to take it to court.

What is said to have caused the issue is when Siphiwe was given instructions by Chiefs. He was instructed to refrain from driving a sponsored luxury Lexus Sedan, from Toyota.

He has received the car about three years ago. As part of the deal, Siphiwe gets free insurance and fuel.

Jessica however instructed him to drive one of the Toyota cars driven by other players.

Siphiwe told Jazzman about Jessica’s demands, and this is when Jazzman ‘blew’.

“Jazzman told her that contrary to the general claims, Chiefs and all South African clubs don’t own the image rights of their players.

“In this case, Chiefs don’t own image rights of Shabba. Therefore they have no right to dictate to him which car he must drive and which one he must not,” said an insider.

Jessica refused to budge and told Jazzman that they own the player’s image rights.

“Several meetings were held between Jessica and Jazzman but none of them yielded any fruit. Two weeks ago, Jazzman phoned Bobby Motaung [the club’s football manager] and asked him to organise a meeting between him and Jessica to sort this thing out.

“He also pleaded with him to be present in that meeting so that they could resolve this matter. Bobby promised to organise the meeting, which is likely to happen in the next few days.”