Exclusive: Gavin Hunt surprised 'injured' Luke Fleurs could join Kaizer Chiefs

As first reported by SABC Sport, the 23-year-old is now a free agent and is currently being assessed by Amakhosi – a club that previously showed interest in his services seven months ago before landing his teammate Thatayaone Ditlhokwe.

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Hunt explained what could have led to the parties going their separate ways. 

"I think he'd been injured for the last month or so. Well, pretty much most of [the season], from the start of even pre-season, he didn't do much," Hunt revealed to the public broadcaster's sports desk.

"So, he missed a lot. I don't understand how he can go on trial today when he was injured yesterday, I don't know how it works."

The coach, whose side hosts Chiefs in a DStv Premiership clash at Peter Mokaba Stadium on Wednesday evening, insists it wasn’t his call to offload Fleur – a player that had in fact penned a new three-year contract as recently as January. 

"Well, I was quite happy for him to stay, but obviously he wasn't partaking and the club felt that we've got four centre-backs now that, if he wasn't happy... I wasn't party to the agreements, and what actually happened in the meeting," he added.

"I didn't have one meeting with him in terms of sitting with the agent or the CEO [Stan Matthews], it was all done by them, so I'm not [aware] of what actually went down, and that's the truth."

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