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General view during the warmup before the DStv Premiership match between Kaizer Chiefs and Richards Bay at FNB Stadium on December 23, 2023 in Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Luc Eymael says he is the solution to Kaizer Chiefs’ problems and pleads with the club’s hierarchy to hear him out.

In 2018, Eymael made history when he helped underdogs Free State Stars to lift the Nedbank Cup, beating fellow surprise finalists Maritzburg United 1-0. 

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The win saw Ea Lla Koto end their 24-year-old trophy drought. Eymael believes that alone makes him the right man to end the drought at Chiefs. Amakhosi has been without a trophy for nine years now. 

“We tried to discuss with Kaizer Chiefs, they knew my position, they knew my CV, I don’t know why they decided to go with Cavin Johnson,” Eymael tells KickOff.

“After Cavin Johnson won some games some people started to call him a Messiah.

“Not to criticise anybody, but I think Kaizer Chiefs have a very good team this season, lacking only one or two things.

“One thing is for sure, again, it’s going to be a white season for them. They will not win any title because they can’t be league champions, Nedbank Cup they are out, they lost the Carling Cup.

“It’s been a long time now since they won any trophy. My work is talking for me after we succeeded at Free State Stars after 24 years of not winning any trophies.

“I have some idea for Kaizer Chiefs on how we can improve the team, only if I can be allowed to share my idea with the Chiefs board, but the board seems not to be interested in me,” the coach added. 

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“They have a good team to compete, but unfortunately, they couldn’t. There’s a problem with the competition for places, the desire for trophies, the guts of being consistent, the guts of winning, the guts to take every game like a final. I can bring back all that.

“What I will say to the Chiefs players it’s the same thing I said to my boys at Free State Stars. At one stage we were number 2 in the league.

“When you enter the pitch wearing a Kaizer Chiefs kit you must aim for a win, this is one the biggest teams in Africa. Such clubs are all about winning trophies. You must hate losing.

“I contacted Chiefs some weeks before they announced Cavin Johnson as a head coach. It was at that time when my agent spoke to Kaizer Motaung Jnr, and the response was not a positive one.

“I wrote him an email, and he said what my agent told me is not true, and that he doesn’t even know who my agent was.”  

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