Sekhukhune United head coach Cedric Kaze believes the club needs a few more signings to have an succsseful season.
Despite an impressive start to life at Babina Noko – with two wins and a defeat in the league – and advanced past AmaZulu in the MTN8 to book a semi-final spot against Orlando Pirates over two legs.
In the next week they will face the Buccaneers three times, and arriving at a club who has finished the past four seasons in the top-five, he understands there’s real expectations from him as Eric Tinkler’s official successor.
“It’s a team that has consistently finished in the top five for the last couple of years and the least we can do is finish in those places, it’s true that we are into the semi-final of the MTN8, we have a huge task ahead of us, we want to do everything we can to get into the next stage,” Kaze said.
“We will prepare well and do everything we can to get through [beyond Orlando Pirates].”
With 17 official exits, which included the retirement of captain Linda Mntambo and losing experienced campaigners; Thabang Monare, Bradley Grobler, Shaune Mogaila who were regular features, the club signed 14 players.
But Kaze feels the depth is not where it needs to be from the bench, to compete on all fronts in what the expectations are at the ambitious club.
“We will keep working on many positions, because I believe when you lose four or five starters, it’s not easy and you need to replace those players with quality as well and you need depth on the bench because there’s alot of games coming,” Kaze explained.
“We had three games in six days, after next week, three in seven days, we need to strengthen positions and every line, defence, midfield, attacking, we need to strengthening to get quality and depth too.”