Be Forward Wanderers\u2019 veteran forward, Esau Kanyenda, has started training, easing fears over his future with the TNM Super League champions.
\nKanyenda, Wanderers\u2019 leading scorer in the 2017 TNM Super League season, reported for training on Wednesday at Blantyre Sports Club, after missing the team\u2019s trip to Mozambique last weekend due to misunderstandings with the club over outstanding dues.
\nWanderers Team Manager, Stevie Madeira, yesterday confirmed Kanyenda\u2019s return to training.
\n\u201cHe is our player; contracted to us. It is just that he asked for some days off so as to be with his family in Lilongwe. Of course, there were some issues that we have sorted out and everything is fine.
\n\u201cKanyenda is one of the best strikers [at Wanderers], and we could not afford to lose him just like that. We knew what we were doing all along, and that is why we kept quiet when people were speculating that he had left Wanderers,\u201d Madeira said.
\nThe former Malawi national football team and South Africa\u2019s Polokwane City star was not available for a comment yesterday.
\nKanyenda joined Wanderers mid-way last season, but scored eight goals.
\nLast week, reports indicated he was contemplating joining Silver Strikers after Wanderers failed to pay him his signing-on fees estimated at K2 million.
\nThe former Dwangwa United player has returned just in time ahead of Wanderers\u2019 friendly match against Masters Security FC at Bingu National Stadium in Lilongwe on Saturday.
\nBoth teams are fine-tuning for Confederation of African Football (Caf) assignments.
\nWanderers will face AS Vita of Democratic Republic of Congo next month in two-legged preliminary round matches whereas Masters date Petro de Luanda of Angola in the Confederation Cup.
\nReports suggest that attacker Jafali Chande has also returned to Wanderers\u2019 training.
\nIn the duos\u2019 absence, Wanderers lost 0-1 to Costa do Sol during a friendly in Mozambique.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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