Mamelodi Sundowns legend Sello "Page" Mahlangu has backed the club's decision to part ways with coach Manqoba Mngqithi.
Mngqithi will no longer lead Sundowns in the FIFA Club World Cup next year, this comes after Miguel Cardoso was unveiled as the new head coach on Tuesday.
The former Brazilians star feels Mngqithi's style of play divided the dressing room.
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"With the play that they were playing it was showing something was not right," Mahlangu tells KickOff.
"I like the fact that the new coach has promised not to change their style of play, a football style he witnessed first-hand in last season's Champions League semi-final.
"Manqoba ruined everything by introducing this fast approach to football. It divided the players. It's outdated. Nowadays everybody is going for positional football.
"Football is evolving again, and now is evolving back to possession football. Remember there was once a Mourinho style of play called 'Parking The Bus'. Things like counter-attacking football.
"Then came Pep Guardiola with the position-based football. If Pep could make Germans and the English fell in love with the position-based football then who are we to dispute it?
"Mosimane and Mokwena have brought smiles to the faces of that Motsepe family with position-based football.
"Now you come in, you want us to stop playing it; I'm telling you, even your players will backstab you.
"Manqoba's biggest mistake was to try to fix what was never broken. The new coach will get things right; I saw him coaching Esperance; he plays positional football.
"Manqoba lost the dressing room. You cannot, as a coach point at your players and say this one, and this one lost us the game. These Sundowns players were starting to be divided."