With Kaizer Chiefs set to make coaching changes for next season, a club legend has backed the club to take that route.
Chiefs currently have Cavin Johnson as their interim coach but the club won't give him the position on a permanent basis.
The results have been inconsistent for Amakhosi under Johnson, with the team currently in eighth place on the DStv Premiership log, and out of the Nedbank Cup.
During Luke Fleurs' memorial service last week, Chiefs Sporting Director Kaizer Motaung Jr. confirmed that the club will have a new coach next season, as cited by TimesLive.
"It's something we communicated from the onset. Cavin has stepped in on an interim basis and we're (committed) to having a different technical structure next season," Motaung Jr. said, in part, as per TimesLive.
Mamelodi Sundowns' Manqoba Mngqithi has emerged as a favourite for the Amakhosi job although the Soweto giants are keeping their cards close to their chest at the moment on who the man, they will be going for to lead the team.
Chiefs legend Lucky Stylianou is confident that the club's hierarchy will make a correct decision this time around after several coaching changes that didn't go well for the team.
The Good
"I am sure that the Sporting Director and everyone involved in making these kinds of decisions will make a correct decision in hiring a suitable coach. The only concern right now is that all good coaches are with clubs at the moment, but I am sure Chiefs are going in the right direction with their search. I'm sure the club will hire a coach who will be able to bring success to the club again," said Stylianou.
The Bad
"With that said, I do have to mention that changing coaches too often doesn't mean that you will be successful. The club has made a few decisions that proved to be not good, and they've got to sit down now and analyse what they did wrong. That will be very important. I mean, the facilities are there, the club is there, and the identity is there. They just need someone to come and do the job and that someone will have to be a very good coach. You can't take a coach from the second division, and you can't get a coach from a team at the bottom of the log. For a new coach that will join Chiefs, it's going to be difficult because he won't know all the players. But with time, he will know all the players in detail from working with them in training and be able to tell what they can do, and which positions they are best suited to. That takes time. The results have been disappointing, and you don't have to be a genius to see that. Something has to be done and I'm happy that the club has made the decision to make coaching changes and that is a correct decision. But at the moment we don't know who is coming to fill in the position and all we know is that there will be coaching changes," he said.
The Ugly
"It's got to a stage where we can talk, and I'm including myself, about this big club that is Kaizer Chiefs but the only thing that is needed is for the right decisions to be made. If results continue like this, the kids who are growing now won't be the supporters of Chiefs. That will be a problem for the wonderful brand that Chiefs is. There is a lot of work to be done but I am sure that whatever the decision that will be taken will be the correct one," Stylianou concluded.
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