Bafana Bafana midfielder Lebogang Manyama admits that he is struggling to adapt to life at new club, Atiker Konyaspor.

The former Cape Town City man  completed a dream move abroad following a fine display in the 2016/17 Absa Premiership campaign, where he picked up the league’s Footballer of the Year award as well as the top-scorer gong.

Manyama highlighted some of the struggles that he is currently facing with his new side, but spoke of his desire to succeed.

‘When you are new at a place you have to learn how everybody operates and how the team operates,’ he told safa.net.

‘To be quite honest it has been a bit difficult because I am in a new environment and the players don’t have that much trust in me as I had at Cape Town City – but it’s understandable because they don’t know what I can do.

‘This is also a challenge for me to show them what I am capable of, and it’s a matter of building confidence one day at a time, and as time goes on, things will get better,.

‘It’s very very difficult. I have never been a foreigner in my life but now I know how all the foreigners that come to South Africa feel. It’s a learning curve and you won’t grow if you don’t learn, you have to go through such situations, and to be quite honest, I am happy with facing whatever that comes,’ he added.

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