Chiefs are likely to suffer like Liverpool

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