New Kaizer Chiefs head coach Nasreddine Nabi has been advised on what he needs to improve at the club by his predecessor, Cavin Johnson.
Chiefs had their worst finish in the DStv Premiership after ending up in tenth position post the 2023/24 season.
Although the Amakhosi management would have to shoulder most of the blame, after the abrupt appointment of Molefi Ntseki, who hardly had proper pre-season preparations after the Soweto giants sidelined former coach Arthur Zwane.
Ironically, Chiefs had made Nabi their priority target to replace Zwane but after talks collapsed in the advanced stages as first reported by Soccer Laduma in 2023, the Glamour Boys threw Ntseki in at the deep end.
Chiefs did not learn from their lesson, as after they parted ways with the former Bafana Bafana coach, who previously held the position of Head of Technical, barely three months as a head coach, they did the same thing by rushing Johnson from Head of Youth to interim coach.
READ | Johnson reveals one crucial element that went wrong at Chiefs
Johnson has admitted in an interview on 947's MSW that he was not really in favour of being fast-tracked to coach the senior team, shortly after joining the club as Head of Youth.
The former Al Ahly coach has suggested that what let them down the most last season was the lack of leaders or strong personalities to manage matches at Amakhosi.
"In hindsight, when you look at what went wrong, you ask yourself there was a time I had eight clean sheets, you analyze further, we had shots at goal, we were leading games but gave away goals, those are things in a normal training game you would not be able to identify," Johnson said on MSW.
"You don't expect them not to man-manage the game within themselves, when we're leading games, as a coach you can't do that. We were leading the derby [against Orlando Pirates] twice, we couldn't manage the game in live form, as a coach you can only manage the game before and during half-time, we lost the game in the 86th minute [68th minute in the league and 116th minute in the Nedbank Cup semi-finals] because of not managing the game properly.
"Those are little things, that as man-management, we lacked a lot in those areas. I thought we did not have enough of those type of, I don't know if I should call them leaders, man-management players on the pitch," the experienced mentor added.
READ | Chiefs' foreign quota latest standing
Although Nabi and his technical team are expected to transform Chiefs from a playing perspective, what the Tunisian would need to improve at the Naturena-based side is the character and team spirit within the group.
There were various reports of divisions among the Amakhosi players last season and one of the main issues the former FAR Rabat coach has to fix would be bringing everyone to work as a team.