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Kaizer Chiefs goalkeeper Itumeleng Khune. Image: @iDiskiTimes / Twitter

Chiefs icon Khune makes massive call for next season

Captain Itumeleng Khune believes that after a rebuilding phase, Chiefs ‘should be able to win everything on offer’ next season.

Kaizer Chiefs

Kaizer Chiefs goalkeeper Itumeleng Khune. Image: @iDiskiTimes / Twitter

Kaizer Chiefs have once again been making headlines for the wrong reasons after a loss to Golden Arrows exposed some clear shortcomings, and also highlighted how a so-called rebuilding phase remains a work-in-progress.

Amakhosi do still sit in a relatively respectable fifth position on the DStv Premiership log, and it’s clear that the club won’t be panicking, while they’re also calling on supporters to keep the faith.

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Itumeleng Khune is the sort of Chiefs icon who can speak with authority, and at a Soweto derby press conference on Monday, he insisted there were better times ahead.

“All I can say to our supporters is, yes, we have been asking for patience, but again they need to understand there have been different coaches in the past seasons because most of the time it is what they [the fans] recommended to management,” Khune said, as quoted by TimesLive.

“The club has delivered certain coaches the supporters recommended and some of the players they wanted to come in. So everyone who has come in needs time to settle. We understand Kaizer Chiefs is not the club to wait [for a long time to win titles] — you have to play every match to win and challenge for the silverware.

“But when you have players who are new in the set-up it becomes our responsibility as leaders and players who have been there to guide them. It’s never easy and it won’t take just one game to turn things around. It will take quite some time.

“If you look at European clubs, they are patient with coaches and players because they know the team is building. Yes, we haven’t been winning silverware but the squad we have now, compared to the previous squad, I think is ready to compete. If we can be given more time, come next season, we should be able to win everything on offer.”

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