I wasn’t so disappointed about us not winning it, because our chance was always a mathematic one and you know what that means. To add to that, I was very proud with the way we finished the season, on the day, we did what we had to do to better our mathematic chances, but we always knew a point for Ajax or a win from Pirates would draw us out of the equation. So I’m pretty content with that we didn’t lose or fail to collect maximum points. We showed character and we should all take pride in the way our team played.
On Valery Nahayo joining KAA Gent of Belgium
Throughout the season, and mostly his time at Chiefs, Valery Nahayo has always worn the Kaizer Chiefs jersey with pride. We signed him from Jomo Cosmos a few seasons ago (in 2008 to be precise) and many will agree that he added stability to our defense that consisted of the likes of Mokete Tsotetsi, Cyril Nzama, Fabian McCarthy etc. etc.
I think it’s fair to say Fabian was ageing and Nahayo joined just at the right time. This past season was one of his best ever; he was that hard man in the center of our defence, and the guy that made all the crunch tackles. For the first time since joining the club, he managed to score twice as he completed a total number of 1980 minutes representing the famous Black and Gold. A fantastic season he had and no one deserves that move to KAA Gent more than he does right now, so really, congratulations to him and we wish him all the best. He remains a Khosi for Life!
A big hole in defense?
Of course, with his departure, we all panicked about the gap that he would leave in our defence. When we first heard about him leaving for trials, the question in everyone’s mind was who would replace this hard working defender and to his credit, Bobby Motaung moved swiftly to answer our question and put our doubts to rest.
For the first time in many years that Bobby has been our football manager, I can say that most if not all of the Amakhosi fans are very pleased with him and his actions. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, let me fill you in; We reportedly made R10 million from selling Nahayo to the Belgian club and for the first time in many years, Bobby didn’t chase free defenders, we allegedly paid R1.5 million for Nahayo’s direct replacement, Tefu Mashamaite from Wits and I’m certain we paid around R500k for the 21 year old Brent Lawler from AmaTuks.
Now everyone will tell you, the Bobby we used to know would be in Zimbabwe right now looking for a BOGOF (Buy one get one free) deal, but for the first time, he pleased the Amakhosi faithful and bought a home grown, young defender. And actually spent over a million for him. The last time we spent a million for a player was when we signed Siphiwe Tshabalala from Free State Stars back in 2007.
So if you were asking about whether we’ll have a hole in defense now that Nahayo has left, I think Bobby answered your question.
Are we to see more of this during the transfer season?
Certainly, I’m very confident we are going to see more credible signings for Kaizer Chiefs before the new season resumes, Bobby clearly stated earlier in the week that we will be buying a striker and I expect this striker to be better than what we already have.
One of our problems last season was that we didn’t have much weight on our bench and when our star strikers got injured, we struggled to score goals or bring suitable replacements, hence our season ended the way it did. I’m not sure where the coach is looking to strengthen his squad, but I’m pretty sure we need two or three more signings to complete our squad.
With all that said, I say let’s look forward to next season, we did our best, we shouldn’t have played some draws, but we did and that’s how the cookie crumbles, we just have to learn to deal with it differently next season and hope to keep the PSL title in Soweto, only move it to Phefeni.
Right, I wish you all a Khosified Friday.
By Khosiblog
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i tnk Isaacs from santos culd add quality to our side and the boy has been dying to come to chiefs he has said that repeated hope you were listening bra bobby