Mudau unhappy with Kaizer Chiefs - 'Doing things that way it does catch up with a team

Kaizer Chiefs recently parted ways with Cedric Kaze and Khalil Ben Youssef, who have been serving the club on an interim basis.

The duo was given the mandate following the unceremonious exit of Nasreddine Nabi just six games into the Premier Soccer League campaign. During their tenure, Kaze and Ben Youssef helped the Glamour Boys finish third in the PSL table, which was the highest they had finished in six years.

Khalil Ben Youssef and Cedric Kaze - Image: Kaizer Chiefs — Khalil Ben Youssef and Cedric Kaze – Image: Kaizer Chiefs

Even after confirming the exit of the entire technical team, the Soweto giants haven’t confirmed a replacement. reports have strongly linked with Fernando Da Cruz.

Ex-Amakhosi defender Johannes ‘Bricks’ Mudau feels it is not good that the 2024/25 Nedbank Cup champions haven’t appointed someone to steer the team forward. He argues this will help him prepare effectively for the forthcoming campaign.

Kaizer Chiefs should be having a coach by now

Fernando Da Cruz is reportedley close to re-joining Kaizer Chiefs. Photo: Kaizer Chiefs

“They should be having a coach by now so that he starts planning for the pre-season, they should have started searching for a coach from the second round of last season, to enable you as a club to start approaching the players he would want for next season,” Mudau said as quoted by KickOff.

But the norm here in South Africa is, when the season ends they fire a coach, buy players, and only then they do hire a coach. And when the coach arrives he says so and so you’ve just signed, I don’t need them. And by that time as a club, you have already given those new players three-year contracts. Then you are stuck with players you won’t use.

“Doing things that way it does catch up with a team in the middle of the season. I think two or three seasons ago the club signed a guy who was a top striker in Zambia [Lazarus Kambole] and that season he ended up scoring only one goal for Kaizer Chiefs and they had already given him a three-year contract.

Dejected Kaizer Chiefs fans after their team lost in a PSL game

“As a coach, you end up forced to play a player who doesn’t fit into your plan. And the next thing the supporters are singing ‘Fire the coach,” Mudau concluded.