Chiefs urged to take their time
KHANYE: AMAKHOSI ALSO NEED STRUCTURAL CHANGES
Coach Ernst Middendorp’s future with the club was always on a knife’s edge even before he dropped the ball in the last two hours of the fauiled season, says former Kaizer Chiefs midfielder Junior Khanye.
Khanye believes Amakhosi realised during the 2019/2020 season while they were dropping points in matches they should have won, that they had made a mistake by bringing back Ernst Middendorp to Naturena.
Khanye says the Amakhosi management need to be patient when preparing to recruit new players and a technical team to take over at the Soweto giants next season.
“Kaizer Chiefs need to start by sorting out the structure of the club before anything else. The structure of the club is dead. They need to reshuffle everything there by appointing knowledgeable scouts to form part of a technical team to get good youngsters in the development, they need a good head of development like Farook Khan to take over from Arthur Zwane to strengthen the team, Khan has a proven track record at development level at Chiefs,” said Khanye.
The former Chiefs dribbling wizard has strongly advised Chiefs to look at hiring a technical team which consists of local coaches and scouts to revive the culture of Chiefs which made the Soweto giants a dominate side in the 80’s and 90’s
“I respect Middendorp as a person but I don’t think he understood South African football and he failed the first time around, I don’t know why they brought him back, he is not Chiefs material,” added Khanye. “He ran out of ideas and disappointed a lot of us in the end. Chiefs is a big club which needs local coaches that know the culture of the club and the playing style of Chiefs. Bringing in the right coaches is not enough, they shouldn’t stop there, they should also look at getting quality players, something that they were missing at Chiefs.
Chiefs legend Vusi “Computer” Lamola shares Khanye’s sentiments, saying the club’s management need to exercise patience in finding Middendorp’s replacement.
But Lamola also singled out the importance of identifying and uprooting the problem which led to the team losing out on the league title, instead of pointing a finger at the coach.