Kaizer Chiefs’ troubles this season will come with a further blow for Nasreddine Nabi, putting a dent on the reputation he has built through his two previous jobs.
Chiefs are already out of contention for the league, while second place is also out of reach, with hopes for third place fading away.
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This then leaves them merely fighting to squeeze their way into a Top Eight finish and, based on their current form, this could be tougher than Nabi imagined.
With all of what is happening now, it means that he must accept a drop in the standards he set in the two jobs he held before coming to Chiefs.
Nabi lost out on the title by a single point last season in Morocco’s Botola Pro League after dropping five points, while Raja Casablanca won all their games during the same period.
That second-place finish might have hurt but will feel much better than what he is enduring with Amakhosi.
The two seasons before that, Nabi was a league winner in consecutive campaigns with Young Africans in Tanzania, which is all now a distant thought at Naturena.
There were further additions of cup success with Yanga, plus reaching the CAF Confederation Cup final.
Nabi must now deal with the frustration of living in hope in negotiating their league finish.
“We need to take it game by game.
“I feel we are going through a moment of bad luck and the lack of results, but we are going to hang in there and everybody has to push more and work hard.
“We are pretty sure that luck will come back, and we will see where we will finish at the end of the league.
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“About finishing in the top three, we feel like we need to take it game by game and it is true that we have to be honest that it is going to be very difficult because we are losing, or we have lost points where we probably shouldn’t have lost those points.
“But we are going to take it game by game and go all in and see how and where we finish in the league,” says Nabi.
