Zwane – We Know Chiefs Don’t Have Good Enough Players

Kaizer Chiefs interim coach Arthur Zwane has confirmed a clearout can be expected as they don’t have good enough players to bring the club success.

Chiefs missed the chance to qualify for CAF inter-club competitions after a 2-2 draw in the final game of the DStv Premiership season which represented an anti-climatic end to a season that began with such promise.

Having seen their transfer ban lifted after reaching the CAF Champions League final in the 2020/21 campaign, along with the return of two-time league winning coach Stuart Baxter, Amakhosi supporters were offered hope that the glory days would return – but it’s now continued into an eighth year without silverware at the most supported club in South Africa.

Zwane admitted earlier last month that it’s an embarrassing situation for a club of Chiefs’ calibre and after winning two games, drawing two and losing three since replacing Baxter, he admits that he feels the players are simply not up to the standard of the club’s ambitions for the future.

“I think it’s there for everyone to see, I can say things that people might see different and people think I know too much or I think… I’m too harsh on players but the reality is, we know we don’t have good enough players to play for this club,” Zwane said.

“We have players yes… who can play for us, but [they are] not good enough for this club. We can’t keep repeating the same mistakes, I said earlier on… are we improving? And it kills the coaches as if we’re not preparing players.

“Look at the goals we’ve been conceding, let alone that we’re not creating goal-scoring opportunities, if you look at today, we’re too flat. Like I said after scoring the goal, it’s like we didn’t want to play anymore, we said ‘it’s fine’ – you know we’re good with the 1-0 lead.

“We didn’t want to go forward, we didn’t want to run like we were tired. I don’t know from what because we had at least the full week to prepare and recharge our batteries to be prepared for this game.

“So those are the things that obviously talk to us as a club and as to going forward who should be part of the team and who should not be part of the team and we’re going to be realistic with that. I think we’ve been nursing some of the player’s feelings for far too long now so things have to change.”

The Soweto giants finished the league campaign with 13 wins, eight draws and nine defeats, with a goal different of eight after the 30 games played.

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