Kenya international Masud Juma is set to receive more competition for his place at Iranian club Esteghlal FC according to his head coach Pitso Mosimane.The former Shabana FC striker joined the Iranian side officially on 1 December 2024 on a seven-month deal that is set to expire on 30 June 2025.EXCLUSIVE: Harambee Stars set to appoint former Manchester United coachPrior to his move to the Persian Gulf Pro League, Juma was out of action for 11 months nursing an injury after leaving Saudi second-tier club Al-Jabalain.Esteghlal has had problems with their forward line, evidenced by the few goals that they have been scoring, netting only seven goals in their last seven matches.##NAJAVA_MECA_8594037##South African tactician Mosimane expressed his frustrations after the team’s 1-1 draw with Aluminium Arak in a match played on Friday 20 December.“I am not playing, remember. All I do is to put the structure and the plan of how we play to create the opportunities to score. How you put it in the nets is not my problem, I don’t play football but I accept that they are my players and they are my team,” said Mosimane as quoted by FARPost.STARS ABROAD: Perfect Boxing Day as 5 Kenyan record victories in England and ScotlandDespite signing Masud as a free agent, Mosimane still has problems to fix in his forward line and revealed that he will be shopping for a striker in the January transfer window.“That is why we have a chance in January to try and fix this problem. My strikers are [Blanco] Gustavo Blanco Leschuk and [Arman] Arman Ramezani. That’s what I have and I don’t want to talk about Masud Juma because he is not available at the moment,” he stated.##NAJAVA_MECA_8598372##Juma is believed to have picked an injury after making his debut on Monday 16 December when he came on in the 70th minute in the team’s barren draw with Gol Gohar.Esteghlal are ninth in the 16-team league with 16 points to their name.
