Former Kaizer Chiefs coach explains why even Guardiola or Mourinho cannot save Amakhosi

Former Kaizer Chiefs coach Farouk Khan believes the club will continue to struggle unless they sort out the root cause of their problems.

Chiefs have been unimpressive on the pitch for a decade with their last league title coming in 2015. The Glamour Boys have found it hard to qualify for continental football and hit an all-time low in their last two seasons, failing to even nick a top eight finish.

Khan feels Chiefs’ problems run so deep to the extent that even the world’s top coaches like Jose Mourinho and Pep Guardiola would not succeed if they were hired by the club.

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“The issues that Chiefs are facing are systemic, it is not technical,” Khan said on SoccerBeat.

“It does not matter if you bring Pep Guardiola or [Jose] Mourinho tomorrow. There are certain underlying things that Chiefs need to sort out,” he added, questioning Chiefs’ playing philosophy and the quality of their squad.

“One of them being the fact that their playing philosophy, the playing style. The culture of the team. If you look back decades ago, Chiefs always had superstars, who is the superstar at Chiefs at this moment in time?” he posed.

“You don’t have this quality of players that you had in the past that made Chiefs what it was, an institution.”

Chiefs slammed for many coaching changes

Khan also believes the constant coaching changes at Chiefs are not helping the situation.   

“It is systemic in many ways and I also think the chronic coaching instability has been an ongoing process. Since 2015, they have had 10 coaches,” he added.

“Changing the coach and not changing the situation, now we are looking at the symptoms rather than looking at the causes. What are the causes?”

Chiefs ended the year in fourth position, four points behind league leaders Orlando Pirates, and are staring at another coaching change at the end of the season unless Khalil Ben Youssef and Cedric Kaze lead a major turnaround in the second half of the campaign.