Chiefs taking risk by keeping Nabi's former assistants despite struggles

YOU WOULD have expected the head honchos at Kaizer Chiefs to have learnt their lesson by now. But such is the questionable nature of management that they seem not to care anymore.

- MIHLALI BALEKA

Chiefs announced this week that they had officially parted ways with head coach Nasreddine Nabi after suspending him due to licensing and mistrust issues. That was a smart move.

The relationship between the two parties seemed disconnected — almost as if Chiefs needed Nabi more than he needed them. But while that decision to end the relationship showed that Chiefs’ big shots have nerves of steel, they went on to undo all their good work by retaining Nabi’s former trusted lieutenants, Cedric Kaze and Khalil Ben Youssef, as co-coaches for the rest of the season.

You see, the issue isn’t that Kaze and Ben Youssef are bad coaches. They're actually decent - given that when they held the fort for Nabi at the start of the season, they enjoyed a five-game unbeaten run, including four wins and a draw. The problem, however, is that they are not fit to coach a club of Chiefs’ calibre. They are enduring a three-game winless run in the Betway Premiership and were recently eliminated from the Carling Knockout last-16 by a struggling Stellenbosch side before the Fifa break.