As a search for Kaizer Chiefs' permanent successor to Molefi Ntseki continues, the Glamour Boys could be forced to return to the formula of hiring coaches that worked in the club's successful years.
Amakhosi management, particularly chairman Dr. Kaizer Motaung, was in the past criticized for not having faith in local coaches.
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However, Dr. Motaung relented in 2015 when he appointed Steve Komphela but Komphela could not replicate any success by his predecessor, a foreign coach, Stuart Baxter and could not deliver silverware in nearly three years at the club.
As far as local coaches are concerned, Chiefs also appointed the likes of Gavin Hunt, Arthur Zwane and recently Molefi Ntseki, who all could not cut it. The most successful eras of the Glamour Boys were achieved with foreign coaches in charge and in search of a new permanent coach, Chiefs could be inclined to narrow their search to foreign coaches.
Former Amakhosi striker Robson Muchichwa says foreign coaches carry a lot of weight behind their words and are not controlled by anyone at the Naturena-based side, hence they have been successful.
"Kaizer Chiefs have never done well with a local coach. I think the demands they tend to differ, when a foreign coach comes in, he comes in with a lot of weight and with a lot of saying, 'This is what I want!'," Muchichwa said on Radio 2000's Game On.
"Hence I think with the local coaches it's not like that. The local coaches need to put a lot of weight behind 'This is what I want' and demand as well," he said.
"For me looking at history, it's maybe that way (that players at Chiefs respect foreign coaches more) or the foreign coaches are not being told by someone to do things. For me, I think there was a bit of friendship in employment (of coaches at Chiefs) and friendship doesn't work, it has to be on merit. That's the other thing that destroys the club I think," he added.
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Chiefs were in the past linked with the hiring of Mamelodi Sundowns assistant coach Manqoba Mngqithi before they eventually settled for Ntseki in the off-season while their links with South African legendary coach Pitso Mosimane has continued, as revealed by the Siya crew.
However, with the exception of Mosimane, who is now an international coach in his own right, the failures of local coaches such Ntseki and Zwane at Amakhosi recently could force the club to revert back to what has worked for them in the past, by hiring a foreign coach.
Foreign coaches linked with the Amakhosi job so far include former Wydad Casablanca coach Sven Vandenbroeck, English coach Paul Smalley while the name of Tunisian coach Nasraddine Nabi, who had failed talks with Chiefs in the off-season, as reported by the Siya crew, continues to be bandied about.
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