Hutting will use the six months to get used to the Chiefs lay of the land
Motaung. It is not quite a state capture scenario, but chew on this: Komphela is on the last six months of his three-year contract. Out of the blue, Chiefs haul Hutting from the Dutch backwaters. They hand him a six-month contract with an option to renew.
Chiefs are desperate for restoration to the head of the South African soccer top table. They enlist the services of someone with a nebulous track record that is no better than that of Komphela. My hunch is that Hutting will use the six months to acquaint himself with Chiefs’ lay of the land.
Thereafter, he will ascend to the throne in the event of Chiefs and Komphela being stuck on a stalemate in their ongoing contract extension negotiations.
What impression did Hutting make to convince Chiefs that he was the chosen one? “It’s the character, not just the record. The record could be a number. It could be paper. But it’s the aura of the man and the personality, and the experience he has got,” said Motaung.
The Love-and-Peace officialdom have upped the ante in the attraction stakes, seemingly taking a leaf from their skulland-bone neighbours.
When it was pointed out that Kjell Jonevret hasn’t done what The Ghost craved, winning a league championship, the response was incongruous. The attraction to the lanky Swede was his longevity, we were told. Six months was too much of a stretch and Jonevret was gone before you could finish your bottle of whisky.
Hutting reminds one of Marcos Fallopa, the equally little-known Brazilian who was parachuted to this country by the South African Football Association.
Hutting is going to give Komphela a run for a quotable quote.
“Don’t kill the baby before it is born,” was Hutting’s plea to the Chiefs faithful.
“You can choose: Either you want an internet coach, or you want a qualified coach,” was another gem.
Hutting will work more on mental aspects, says Komphela. “There’s an element in South Africa that I think is strongly lacking — the mental aspect of the game.” Like making sure Chiefs players don’t get scared of making mistakes because they fear a backlash on social media, right coach?
Anyway, our own Marc “Mpiyakhe” Strydom has the personality to be the technical advisor to breathe life back into Moroka Swallows. And he has no aura!
Forgive my manners: complications of the new revolution, comrades.
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