JOHANNESBURG Zimbabwean international defender, Onismor Bhasera, is on the move again. The Warriors fullback, who has been on the sidelines for six months owing to a protracted battle with his former South African club Kaizer Chiefs and struggling English Premiership side, Portsmouth over his signature, is now said to be trying out at Sheffield Wednesday.
According to sources close to Bhasera, the Warriors left back, who spent the past few weeks trying to sign with another Championship side, Queens Park Rangers (QPR), began training last week. Bhasera failed to strike a deal with QPR for a number of reasons and so he left, said the source. According to the source, also a soccer player, Bhaseras bid to sign for QPR failed because of technical changes in the team during the past two weeks.
The man who initially wanted to sign him for Portsmouth Paul Hart (former Portsmouth Manager) joined QPR last month, and he is the one who wanted to sign Bhasera for QPR. However, the source added, Hart resigned a few days after Bhasera had resumed training with the Championship club, creating a problem for the Warriors defender. After his failure to land the QPR contract, Bhasera left for Wednesday late last week and is now training with the club, hoping for better luck.
He has begun training with Sheffield Wednesday and I just hope that things will work out for him this time because he is a talented and committed individual who really deserves a break into the bigger and financially rewarding English leagues, added the friend. Bhaseras move from QPR comes a few days after the English First Division side denied signing the former Kaizer Chiefs defender, something that had been reported last week.
We did not sign Bhasera, although we have had him regularly coming for trials here, said QPR media manager, Paul Morrissey last week. It remains to be seen if Kaizer Chiefs will allow Bhaseras latest bid to find an English club, as the Naturena-based club still insist that the Zimbabwean is contracted to them until the end of the current season, while the defender is adamant that he is a free agent.
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