OUADDOU, YOU FAILED TITO — NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND! YOUR FAVOURITISM CHASED OUR GENIUS TO BAHRAIN

Mpho Dube
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Coach Abdeslam Ouaddou watches on as Patrick "Tito" Maswanganyi walks off — head down, frustrated, isolated. This is the favouritism Buccaneers complained about. The favourites stayed on for 90 minutes. Tito — even when dancing, even when scoring — was always the first to be subbed

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Let's not sugar-coat it.Abdeslam Ouaddou, you are the reason Tito is gone.

Not Pirates. Not the fans. Not the board. YOU.

You failed Patrick "Tito" Maswanganyi — and now the picture says it all.

WEH TITO — iDiski Times confirmed it today. Our magician, our No.10, our Soweto joy, unveiled in a yellow jersey for Al Khaldiya SC in Bahrain. Horns up. Forced smile.

A 28-year-old Bafana Bafana genius at his peak, who should be lighting up the Champions League in front of 40,000 at Orlando, is now playing in empty stadiums in the Gulf where, as YOU yourself admitted, "there's huge pressure from club owners on the foreign players."

That is on you, coach.Because Tito was playing very well. He did wonderful things for Orlando Pirates. Everyone saw it. Until you arrived with your favourites.

Let's call it what it is: YOU HAVE FAVOURITES, COACH.

Your favourites play 90 minutes even when they are tired. Even when they lose the ball 10 times. Even when they don't score for 5 games. They are untouchable.

But Tito? Tito scores — you sub him. Tito creates three chances, crowd sings "Tito, Tito" — you sub him. Tito dances — you punish him.

We saw it on his face. That handshake snub in BucsCamp. That Sesotho line — "This guy has a problem with me" — it wasn't a joke. It was a player crying out because his coach wanted to coach the JOY out of him.

Riveiro never did that. José Luis Riveiro Cabaleiro never shamed Tito in public about training. Why? Because he understood Tito. Deon Hotto told you: "You have to understand Tito… he has a small heart, man. You need to be next to him."

Riveiro let Tito be Tito. Hugo Broos let Tito be Tito. And Tito scored for Bafana. Tito got call-ups.

You wanted a soldier. Tito is an artist.

And then you have the audacity to say: "If he listened to me last season, he would have been at the World Cup, definitely."

What are you talking about? Bafana just made history at the 2026 World Cup in North America, reaching the knockouts for the first time. Without Tito. Not because Tito wasn't good enough — but because your public war with him killed his momentum and confidence.

You can't say you love a player too much, then tell the country you are the reason he missed a World Cup. That is not love. That is ego.

Pirates did not push Tito to Bahrain. YOU DID, OUADDOU.

Riveiro ended a 14-year drought WITH Tito. You are trying to prove you can win WITHOUT him.

Today it is Tito. Tomorrow it will be another creative who refuses to be your robot.

Coach, the Buccaneers are watching. And we are not blind.