Maritzburg United have given contract extensions to strikers Andrea Fileccia‚ Mohau Mokate and flying fullback Pogiso Sanoka, but captain Bevan Fransman has been released. The 34-year-old former international defender skippered Maritzburg to a club-high fourth-place finish in the Premiership plus a place in the Nedbank Cup final this season. Newly promoted Highlands Park have wasted no time in snatching him up and Fransman has signed a two-year contract with the Johannesburg club. "I have spent a large portion of my career playing in Gauteng," he said. "I have a home and family here and when this opportunity arose for me to join such an established and ambitious club like Highlands Park, I was up for the challenge. I am looking forward to this new chapter in my career and can’t wait for the season to begin." Fileccia has had a one-year extension in his contract activated by the club‚ which left it until the end of May to tell the Belgian-born striker it wanted him for another season...

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