coach Arthur Zwane told SABC Sport about their struggles to find a suitable target man.
At the end of last season, Chiefs released four strikers – Leonardo Castro, Samir Nurkovic, Lazalous Kambole and Bernard Parker – and, with Zwane having a pre-set game model, the search for his ideal target has not been easy.
Of the seven signings that Chiefs have made ahead of the new season, only Ashley Du Preez can be considered an attacker but he is not an out-and-out striker.
Those that are available, I don’t think they can come and add value. Yes, we are avoiding a situation where now we’ll do a quick-fix like we used to do in the past, and it did not pay off at the end of the day and the team suffered for a very long time.
“So, right now we’re trying to build an identity and way of play so that each and everyone knows his role and responsibilities on and off the field, and that already will make our life easy to identify players that can come in and add value with different and rare qualities.
“At the moment we have players that are similar in terms of quality up front, so we need that one who can maybe hold the ball for us, and who’s a good header of the ball and is also a little aggressive, but who’s also technically sound
“To be quite honest, we’ve been looking, searching, hunting… It’s difficult to get one – reason being, whenever you get one then he’s not [available] on the market, he’s not for sale and they [clubs] make your life difficult,” said Zwane.
