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Things didn’t go according to plan for Gavin Hunt at Naturena but he’s flying high at SuperSport. Image: @kaizerchiefs / twitter

Gavin Hunt drops Kaizer Chiefs bombshell!

Gavin Hunt has spilled the beans on his ill-fated stint with Kaizer Chiefs and what went wrong at Naturena.

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Things didn’t go according to plan for Gavin Hunt at Naturena but he’s flying high at SuperSport. Image: @kaizerchiefs / twitter

SuperSport United boss Gavin Hunt has spilled the tea on his ill-fated stint in the Kaizer Chiefs hot seat.

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TRANSFER BAN HINDERED HUNT AT KAIZER CHIEFS

A transfer ban laid down by FIFA seriously hindered Hunt’s ability to operate at Naturena. He couldn’t immediately bring in players that suited his coaching philosophy, so Hunt was swimming upstream from day one. He was sacked by the time that Chiefs could sign players again. Who knows how he might have thrived with a few of his most trusted Bidvest Wits stars by his side?

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Hunt did, to his credit, guide the Glamour Boys to the CAF Champions League quarterfinals in the 2020-21 campaign before Dillon Shephard and Arthur Zwane took the reins.

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HUNT: I NEVER WANTED KAIZER CHIEFS JOB

“Two years ago I really had the biggest blow in my football career when Wits got sold, we were all in the bubble (during the last part of the 2019/20 season), we were in the hotel for six weeks, locked away and we were told we don’t have jobs,” Hunt said On the Whistle podcast.

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“That was the biggest blow in my playing, coaching career and everything. So it was really downer side and everyone was being sold off like meat and I was the last one who got the job. I took the job (Chiefs) that I didn’t really want because I knew all the mine fields you are going to get to those types of jobs.”

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Hunt’s pedigree as a coach was never in doubt, but sometimes things just don’t pan out the way one expects them to in football. Now, after difficult stints with Chiefs and Chippa, he’s back at SuperSport and doing a stellar job. That’s not a surprise to anybody in the local scene.

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