Former Kaizer Chiefs defender Johannes ‘Bricks’ Mudau has issued a stark warning to his old club, insisting that the Soweto giants are putting themselves on the back foot by failing to appoint a new head coach. Amakhosi parted ways with co-coaches Khalil Ben Youssef and Cedric Kaze last month and have since operated without a permanent figure at the helm. Mudau, speaking to KickOff, argued that the delay is inexcusable with pre-season looming, stating plainly that the club should already have a coach in place to begin planning for the upcoming campaign. He noted that the search should have started as early as the second round of last season, allowing the new manager to identify and approach the players he wants for the next term.
Mudau’s critique comes against a backdrop of instability at Naturena, where Chiefs have cycled through nearly ten coaches in the last decade while securing just a single trophy. The former defender warned that the current approach risks leaving a new manager powerless in shaping his own squad. “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,” he said, describing a