After months of speculation over his future, Soweto giants Kaizer Chiefs have confirmed that midfielder Njabulo Blom will be leaving Naturena. Image: @Nuscher_M / Twitter
Gavin Hunt set to meet Pep Guardiola: It will be important!
Former Kaizer Chiefs coach Gavin Hunt has shared his excitement about an upcoming trip to spend time at Manchester City.
After months of speculation over his future, Soweto giants Kaizer Chiefs have confirmed that midfielder Njabulo Blom will be leaving Naturena. Image: @Nuscher_M / Twitter
In May last year, Kaizer Chiefs released Hunt from his contract after a string of poor results with the club, although he had led Amakhosi to the semi-final of the CAF Champions League. After a brief move to Chippa United, he is now without a job
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Hunt, who is a four-time PSL winner, was said to have recently spent time with the Manchester City technical team, and will be heading out on 18 April for a couple more days with the first team at the Etihad.
“I will meet the person that does the methodology to find out what they look for and what they don’t want, those type of things. I am also going to be around the fitness and training team,” he told Soccer Laduma.
“But obviously the most important meeting will be with Pep himself. They are busy, but I will be with the first team and going to their training session in the two days, I have seen in the itinerary that they’ve given me a slot there and there is time.
“The expectations are to see their professionalism and to see how they do things. I think, obviously, it will also be about seeing how we do things compared to them – we can’t compare the facilities and things like that, but the training sessions and methodology.”
Meanwhile, Hunt recently responded to the message from Al Ahly’s Pitso Mosimane that he should join him in north Africa.
Mosimane acknowledged all the successes Hunt achieved over the last 30 years of his coaching career, and feels he needs a change of environment.
“Gavin Hunt, big respect for you. You have won all SA trophies. History archived. Come feel the waters in this region where I am (tough though) and you might like it,” wrote Mosimane on Twitter.
“When we day off, I will ask my friend’s Yacht to take us over the Mediterranean for fishing and dolphin watching,” said Mosimane.
In response, Hunt offered a somewhat playful request for Mosimane to find him a job.
“I am dying to come there! Get me a job I am so proud of all you’ve achieved. I see the results every week. So happy for you. Get that yacht ready!”
Meanwhile, Hunt has recently revealed how things went awry at Chiefs
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“I was told – I won’t say who the person was – I was told ‘we’d rather come sixth in the league and be knocked out first round of the Champions League,’” Hunt told Diski Talk With Luyolo.
“So I said ‘well, then you got the wrong coach’. Because there’s no ambition. I said ‘I can’t go on two fronts here. We can’t, we don’t have the squad.’ We playing Saturday in Guinea, we arriving back here Monday and we playing Tuesday or Wednesday in Durban. The squad is not [big enough], we can’t do.
“Either, we go here or we go there and I saw a gap. I saw a gap because the Champions League for me, the African Champions League, the only thing that is tough is the conditions but it’s overrated. So if you can handle all the nonsense that goes on and you’re strong mentally and all that you will be okay.”
Hunt felt he could have achieved success with Chiefs.
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“I was disappointed because I was two games away off turning this thing around for next season. I’m very disappointed and obviously there in the [leadership] camp, they must have been for and they must have been against. And maybe it was more against [me],” he added.
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