Kaizer Chiefs Sporting Director Kaizer Motaung Jr has addressed club fans amid concerns of no new signings to date.
Amakhosi are yet to make a single signing despite the current transfer window closing on January 28.
The majority of Chiefs fans have been up in arms, urging the club’s hierarchy to strengthen the team.
And that stems from the fact that Chiefs have been blowing hot and cold even after the arrival of highly-rated Nasreddine Nabi and his technical team.
Fingers have now shifted to point to the quality of players or lack of at Chiefs, hence the demand for new players.
And while Chiefs fans are now complaining, Motaung Jr said they are doing everything they can to bring in new players.
However, he made it clear that there are two phases to their approach in the transfer market – bolstering the squad now and again in the off-season.
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“I think it’s always a sensitive topic, because we would love as a team to be able to be transparent and speak to the people,” Motaung Jr told the media at the Village on Thursday.
“I mean, our people and fans are the most important people and stakeholder, and we respect them tremendously highly.
“And I really want to just take away this connotation that the club is not doing anything, the club does not respect the supporters. They are everything to us! We do everything for them, and it would be foolish for us not to be doing anything in this window,” he continued.
“We’ve got to respect the players that we do have, given the confidence for them to be able to do the job in the field, but we are very much aware of the areas that we need to strengthen.
“We’ve been working tirelessly every day with the technical staff, with the management, with the committee, to make sure that we make the right decisions. And we obviously have been engaged with many clubs, with many players, but it’s very disrespectful to come out and speak about other clubs players.”
“I know people want to know information. I know they want to know progress. We would love to share that. For us not saying anything is us not respecting anybody. It’s us not being negative or us sitting in the office doing nothing. I really want to dispel that.
“Because, if I sit outside here and speak about every single player from a different team, we are doing a big disservice to the management of the team and to the player. We have to respect our colleagues.
“We do want the fans to know and our stakeholders, our sponsors, we are doing everything we can to make sure that in certain areas we can strengthen.
“But we also understand that we also have a June window, so we’re preparing on two folds because there’s a short term, but we also have to plan for the next season, so we’re taking the steps that we can, and we’re working very tightly behind the scenes,” added Motaung Jr.
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