Royal AM coach Khabo Zondo is confident that Samir Nurkovic can adapt to his style of football.
The 30-year-old striker was snapped up by the DStv Premiership club after being released from rivals Kaizer Chiefs.
While he scored bags of goals in his first season with Amakhosi under Ernst Middendorp, injuries and a lack of game time under Gavin Hunt and Stuart Baxter, meant that Nurkovic struggled to rediscover his form in the next two campaigns.
But with his latest move, the former Komarno frontman has a chance to adapt to a new way of playing – that will be beneficial, says the new Royal AM head coach.
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Zondo said in the Citizen: “We have had players who are strong in the air like Lungisani Ndlela before. He was with Swallows who are a team who played the ball on the ground but they had him.
“So, it is a different dimension that you may need. Even a team like Sundowns has a player who is stronger in the air and very little is said about his weaknesses when playing with his feet.
“Nurkovic will adapt, I believe. We have had a few sessions where I think he is adapting well. We have to give him that belief that he can do it like the other players.”
