Former Kaizer Chiefs target Rowan Human has explained the reasons why he chose AmaZulu over Amakhosi.
NO KAIZER CHIEFS MOVE FOR HUMAN
After making his name at Bidvest Wits and Maritzburg United, Human was wanted at Naturena before turning 24 years old. According to the Johannesburg-born attacker, his parents and AmaZulu’s former Spanish coach, Pablo Franco, influenced his decision to turn down a move to Kaizer Chiefs.
“I think, last-minute things, when I spoke to my family about everything” Human told iDiski Times. “They said to me, ’At this point, we are not too sure about you coming back to Joburg, with everything that’s happening’. My parents are really scared that I might get sucked into the life of Joburg and want to be in Westbury every weekend, or something like that.
“So they were just really scared for me. I think my family was scared for me, and they just said to me, ‘No, stay in Durban, rather go to AmaZulu, where we feel like you’re safer, and you can go, you can learn there as well’.
“And also the fact that coach Pablo [Franco Martin] came in, I was thinking, a Spanish coach, there’s something to learn. If there’s a league that I love watching, it is LaLiga.
“So I thought here’s a Spanish coach, here’s the opportunity to learn what’s happening in that country. Because the way they play football, everyone wants to play the way the Spanish teams play football,” Human concluded.
NASREDDINE NABI ON GLODY LILEPO
We’ve all seen that Kaizer Chiefs winger Glody Lilepo has looked like a misfit on the wings, but coach Nasreddine Nabi has no issues with that.
Should Lilepo move to the number nine position where Kaizer Chiefs are struggling the most? Coach Nabi does not think so.
“His first position is winger, right or left, he’s a winger, but as a coach, you need to give more chances, offensively, sometimes in France he played second striker for Valenciennes, but it’s not his [natural] position,” Nabi explained via iDiski Times. “Today in the last 20 minutes I wanted to push [Pule] Mmodi as a winger, with more strikers, more players in the final 18 [area], I think you observed that we continued to create more chances, but not score.
KAIZER CHIEFS TO TARGET PLAYERS FROM ABROAD
According to coach Nabi, Betway Premiership clubs have been unwilling to sell players to the Glamour Boys. The club’s new transfer strategy is to target players from abroad. The latest example was Thabo Cele, who joined the club in January after leaving his Russian club FC Fakel Voronezh.
“We know the competition, it’s hard to sign players from other clubs in South Africa for us, so we need to change our strategy and we have a new strategy in management for that,” the Kaizer Chiefs mentor said via iDiski Times. “It’s not for me to talk to you about it, but the club, we have a new strategy that we are working on. After this window, we will maybe look outside, another country for other players.
“But it’s not about names, I don’t need big names, I need the profile of the player that can fit into my system, not a name. And we will go outside South Africa if we need to.
“But I don’t want too many players, but I want the quality players that my game model needs,” concluded the Kaizer Chiefs tactician.
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