Benni smokes peace pipe with AmaZulu bosses
McCarthy made comments about not getting enough support from the club's board.
Benni McCarthy, coach AmaZulu FC with chairman Sandile Zungu and director Manzini Zungu (Photo by Lefty Shivambu/Gallo Images)
The supposed tension between AmaZulu’s top brass and their head coach Benni McCarthy is understood to have subsided as the two have smoked the peace pipe and are ready to “make Usuthu great”.
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McCarthy made comments about not getting enough support from the club’s board when it comes to recruiting the kind of players that he wants.
“In every working relationship there will always be times when parties don’t see eye to eye and AmaZulu are no exception to that”, said a source.
“The coach, club president and chief executive officer, Sandile Zungu and Manzini Zungu have reassured McCarthy that he will get all the support he wants, but at the same time made him aware that the club does not operate on a blank cheque. At the end of the day the point is to make Usuthu great,” the source added.
Players reckon Sithebe has made a bold move
Meanwhile, a few players in the AmaZulu FC camp are said to be unsettled and wishing they could do what Siyethemba Sithebe has done – join another club.
At the centre of the unhappiness is said to be McCarthy’s treatment of the players, especially the older ones.
“I heard one of the senior players congratulate Sithebe and say he was lucky to finally be out of that place, even thought he still has six months to serve at the club. A lot of players in that team would jump at a chance to move away from the club at the moment. They are not happy with how Benni is treating them, and what’s worse worse is that he was a player himself not so long ago and should know how it feels,” said a source.
McCarthy has on numerous occasions publicly blasted his players when things didn’t go his way.
