Cavin Johnson has insisted that how Kaizer Chiefs are handling Arthur Zwane is wrong.
The former Al Ahly SC assistant coach came out to express his views on the matter of Amakhosi’s third assistant coach.
Zwane was appointed as the Chiefs caretaker coach after Gavin Hunt was shown the door and lead the club to the CAF Champions League final before Stuart Baxter was announced as coach.
Johnson, though, believes that Zwane should be given a fair shot as head coach of the Glamour Boys instead of just being seen as a back-up plan once the main coach is fired.
“There’s a lot going on within the management, within the coaching staff,” Johnson told Frontrunner.
“At the same time, don’t give someone who’s played for you, who’s won you trophies, you promote him to be a coach, you give him the reign to be the head coach but you don’t outline that ‘you’re not our man’ because that is the wrong thing to do with Arthur Zwane.
“Number one it is totally wrong to do that to him to string him along and make him feel like he can take the reign of being the coach.
“As it is now Arthur will never be the head coach of Kaizer Chiefs but tell him that and make sure he understands that so that whoever comes, Gavin [Hunt] comes in with Dillon [Sheppard] and Dillon is second assistant.
“Now here comes Stuart Baxter and he is still the second assistant but the guy who took them to the [CAF] Champions League final was Arthur Zwane and Dillon as the second, so it sends the wrong message.
“Tell him you are going second assistant forever and when we promote you to the first team, we will promote you to the first and when you fail, you’re fired.
“I know how these people do this, they say ‘no, no, no just take the team now and if it doesn’t go well, you know you still got a job for life’.
“As a coach as well, you have to have ethics. If they give you the job you have to run with it but if they bring in someone else then say ‘count me out’.”
