I
fully agree with Dnomza’s article (http://goo.gl/sFmkn),
but I have a different take on the matter. I believe Kaizer Chiefs is
stagnating as an organisation and is likely to suffer the decline that clubs
like Moroka Swallows and Liverpool endured over the years. The situation is
beyond Vladimir Vermezovic who happens to be a right coach at the wrong club.
Cast
your mind back to when Ted Dumitru was at the helm. He took the club out of a
coma. He could fill FNB Stadium to the brim playing against the likes of Bidvest
Wits. Played attractive soccer with players like Arthur “10111” Zwane, Asanda
"Scara" Ngobese and more and was not bothered by Jabu Pule antics.
Playing in Bidvest and Dobsonville was considered a risk. Chiefs are now taking
games to Polokwane, Port Elizabeth and etc as uncompromising Gauteng-based
supported vote with their feet which supporter in other provinces are happy to
settle to see their heroes in their own backyards.
Dumitru
was then sacked by a complacent club after leading the club to a historic back
to back league title win. What has happened since then? We settle for a single
trophy as season and play second fiddle to whoever rules the roast in any give
season e.g. Mamelodi Sundowns, SuperSport United and now Orlando Pirates?
It’s
unfortunate that the clubs "40 year" history is exactly what is
blinding the club and rendering it deaf to the 13th player's pleas. Chiefs have
simply failed to catch up with modern ways of managing thing on and off the
field of play preferring to fall back of the comfort of marketing expertise thus
raking in millions regardless of how they perform on the field of play.
Bobby
Motaung is simply sustaining a long-standing culture of doing things at the
club and thus enduring insults for Bra Kaizer Motaung which is still pulling
stings behind the scenes. The difference between the two is that one is media
shy while the other loves the spotlight but the problems are still the same.
The
buy one get three policy should only supplement a solid a strong transfer
policy rather than be thee policy. VV is unable to unearth new talent from
lower division preferring the so-called “players with Bafana Bafana potential”
when Bafana haven’t covered themselves in glory and having proved that anyone
who moves to a bigger club or grabs headlines can walk in and out of their set
up. Our coaching department have been dominated by foreign coaches over the
last 7 or so seasons with very little to show for it.
There
had been no innovations except for sending player into early retirement while
destroying the potential of promising talent. And as we can see from the likes
of Pirates, SuperSport and Sundowns it’s better to invest in buying quality
player to create an environment that is conducive for development of younger
players. The situation at Chiefs bring to life words that were once uttered by
Gavin Hunt who said “Without Itumeleng Khune, Chiefs would be a middle-of-the
table team.”
Please
bring back Prof Ted Dumitru and Doctor Khumalo to nurse this club back to life
and mend the broken hearts of Amakhosi supporters.
Love and Peace
By Mashudu in Centurion
