Kaizer Chiefs and Gavin Hunt in transfer targets disagreement?

Kaizer Chiefs Coach Gavin Hunt and the club management are reportedly at loggerheads with regards to transfer targets.

The Glamour Boys were slapped with a two transfer window ban by FIFA in the middle of last season, as their signing of Malagasy international midfielder Andriamirado ‘Dax’ Andrianarimanana was deemed illegal. Chiefs, however, were determined to go down fighting, but their appeal was eventually dismissed by the world football governing body.

The lengthy period between the appeal and its dismissal coincided with one of vast uncertainty. The longer it dragged on, the more optimism it seemed to give Hunt. During that period he invited three of his former Bidvest Wits players to train with Chiefs. S’fiso Hlanti, Phathutshedzo Nange as well as Brandon Petersen were all pictured at Naturena, being put through their paces.

Gavin Hunt had already started to show his hand with Kaizer Chiefs transfer targets

It is no secret those players had been called in with the view of Hunt reuniting with them at Chiefs. The fact that the Chiefs management even permitted those players to train with their side might have been an indication of the faith they had in Hunt’s transfer choices.

Gavin Hunt now seems to have lost the wholehearted backing from Chiefs

Fast forward almost a year and somewhat strangely that confidence seems to have been evoked from the veteran mentor. According to The Citizen Hunt had given the club’s management a list of his desired transfer targets, which the management appear unconvinced by.

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One of those players Hunt might have to find an alternative for may well be one of his most reliable players at Wits, in the form of Buhle Mkhwanazi. Mkhwanazi had started forging quite a mean reputation for himself, with his combination with current Orlando Pirates player Thulani Hlatshwayo providing a solid base for the ‘Clever Boys’ to attack from.

Salary demands could stand in the way of Hunt reuniting with Mkhwanazi next season

Even though his part in that partnership saw him catapulted into a Bafana Bafana mainstay together with Hlatshwayo, it hasn’t seemed to convince the Chiefs management that he will be worth his weight in gold.

“The issue is his salary demands. The club feels it is too high for a player who has been out of action for almost a year now. But the coach is insistent on him as one of the key players he plans to build his team with going forward” A source revealed.

It is clear that he will be challenged with every transfer target

This may come as a worry for Hunt, as it is now a second reported veto of his transfer target by the Amakhosi management. It was also recently reported that Moroka Swallows striker Ruzaigh Gamilden was the subject of doubt from owner Kaizer Motaung Senior who eventually conceded after being outvoted by the management.

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With his management staff now seemingly the ones unconvinced, it remains to be seen whether Hunt will eventually get his way with this one too. Watch the space.