Former Kaizer Chiefs coach Gavin Hunt has spilled the bins on his exit at Amakhosi and how much it hurt him.
The former mentor of the Glamour Boys led the club to the semi-final of the CAF Champions League but was shown the door before facing Wydad Casablanca.
Hunt has now come out and discussed his time at Chiefs, insisting the squad wasn’t strong enough to perform well on the continent and in the domestic league, revealing why he targeted the Champions League.
“I was told – I won’t say who the person was – I was told ‘we’d rather come sixth in the league and be knocked out first round of the Champions League,'” Hunt told Diski Talk With Luyolo.
“So I said ‘well, then you got the wrong coach’. Because there’s no ambition. I said ‘I can’t go on two fronts here. We can’t, we don’t have the squad.’ We playing Saturday in Guinea, we arriving back here Monday and we playing Tuesday or Wednesday in Durban. The squad is not [big enough], we can’t do.
“Either, we go here or we go there and I saw a gap. I saw a gap because the Champions League for me, the African Champions League, the only thing that is tough is the conditions but it’s overrated. So if you can handle all the nonsense that goes on and you’re strong mentally and all that you will be okay.”
Hunt also expressed his disappointment after he was shown the door by the Glamour Boys with only two games left before the DStv Premiership season ended.
“I was disappointed because I was two games away off turning this thing around for next season. I’m very disappointed and obviously there in the [leadership] camp, they must have been for and they must have been against. And maybe it was more against [me],” he added.
Hunt, who in the meantime was appointed and relieved of his duties by Chippa United, is currently without a job.
