Kaizer Chiefs' scouting and recruitment process has been identified as the predicament that has sunk the club into an eight-year trophy drought that is now threatening to reach a decade.
The argument tabled by former Chiefs striker Fees Moloi is that coaching is not the major contributing factor to the club's struggles.
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Moloi spoke in the aftermath of the appoint of his former coach Molefi Ntseki as thew new coach.
"Has Chiefs been scouting and recruiting properly," asks Moloi.
Just last season Chiefs offloaded over 10 players and brought in just as many players after having done a sweep out at the end of the previous campaign which was met with another mass arrival.
This has been the trend over most of the last decade, except for the period when Chiefs were under a transfer ban.
So far, the club has offloaded Phathutshedzo Nange and Mulomowandau Mathoho with Cole Alexander also on his way out in a process that will have at least another three leaving.
The arrivals gate has also been busy with Thatayaone Ditlhokwe, Given Msimango, Mduduzi Mdantsane, and Pule Mmodi among the new arrivals.
"The only shortcoming at Chiefs is in the scouting and talent identification department.
"Chiefs need someone who understands football in that space who will be forever be in contact with the head coach so that the players who are signed align to what the club needs.
"The process of identifying players should be detailed before he ultimately lands at the club.
"At Chiefs, the problem is not coaching but the order of recruitment of players for the club.
"They can go and fetch Pep Guardiola from Manchester City but when he gets here the question will border around who is recruiting for Pep.
"Pep might come to Chiefs, but he will need to sit with the development coaches so that there is a connection to the first team since the development teams feed the senior team.
"If the development teams are not doing well then the senior team will never be right.
"The senior team will only be right with foreign players," argues Moloi who was at Chiefs just months into the turn of the new millennium.