Orlando Pirates coach Mandla Ncikazi says they’ve put the trust in the club heirarchy after the lack of transfer activity in the January transfer window.
After signing seven players in the off-season, the Buccaneers kept a relatively low profile in the mid-season window despite being 14 points behind Mamelodi Sundowns.
While Ncikazi admits it’s not the ideal situation, he’s confident that the continuity of the current playing squad could result in improvements for the second half of the 2021/22 campaign.
“There’s no coach that has ever been happy with the squad, we’re always ambitious. If we had enough resources like others, maybe I would bring a Messi to Pirates.
“Having said that, we are never enough, there are areas that you’d wish – but sometimes the timing of bringing players which I think becomes important in our team when and how they bring the players, we respect [management] wisdom and vision on how they do it.
“But personally I would have loved to have certain players but we respect the processes within the club on how they do things.”
While there’s been no outgoings from their squad that’s currently at 37 first-team players, the co-coach said they weren’t willing to let anyone go if there weren’r any potential incomings.
“You cannot take out without bringing in, Covid has taught me that expect the unexpected, so based on what is happening with Covid, you can’t have a very thin squad,” he explained.
“With the club being in CAF competitions – we’ll need a lot of players. When you look at the fixtures, we’re going to rotate the players, use some in the league so we cannot take out without bringing in.
“I’m not sure if there’s still possibilities but we’ll respect the processes within the club.”
