Kaizer Chiefs is facing intense scrutiny over its recent transfer strategy, which critics argue has set the club up for another trophy-less season. While the team has shored up its defense, the glaring inability to convert chances—a familiar failing—has become the defining problem of the current campaign.
The Blunt Reality of the Attack
Despite bringing in multiple new attacking players for the 2025/26 season, the team’s output in the final third has deteriorated.
- Goal Rate: Amakhosi has scored a deeply underwhelming 13 goals in 13 league matches, averaging exactly one goal per game.
- Wasted Opportunities: Six draws already this season—a direct consequence of failing to find winning goals—are cited as evidence that the team is already out of the title race.
Transfer Market Misfires
The poor performance is being laid directly at the feet of the Kaizer Chiefs board for a lack of “transfer foresight.”
| Attacker | League Goals (2025/26) | Note |
| Flavio Silva | 4 goals (in 6 appearances) | Team’s top scorer and key asset. |
| Pule Mmodi | 0 goals | Zero return this season. |
| Wandile Duba | 0 goals | Zero return this season. |
| Ashley du Preez | 0 goals | Zero return this season. |
| Etiosa Ighodaro | 1 goal (all comps) | New signing with minimal impact. |
| Khanyisa Mayo | 1 goal (all comps) | On loan and also underperforming. |
Compounding the embarrassment, former Chiefs discard Puso Dithejane (not a striker) has matched Silva’s top-scorer tally of four goals elsewhere.
Wasting a “Golden Opportunity”
The current Betway Premiership table suggests a title race, with fourth-placed Chiefs only four points behind leaders Orlando Pirates (who have a game in hand). However, the author argues that this positioning merely reflects one of the weakest PSL seasons in recent memory, not Chiefs’ strength.
The lack of clinical firepower means the club is poised to “blow their best chance to win the title in over a decade” if they don’t drastically improve after the 2025 AFCON break. Goalless draws against teams like Chippa United and TS Galaxy serve as a disappointing close to the calendar year.
Focus on the Board’s Accountability
Kaizer Chiefs Board Slammed for Recruitment Blunders as Strikers Fire Blanks
The Kaizer Chiefs hierarchy is under fire for a disastrous recruitment drive that has crippled the team’s offense and appears to have squandered a prime opportunity to win the league for the first time since 2014/15.
While defensive improvements are noted, the core issue remains the attackers, who collectively have failed to justify their signings. Despite a “raft of new attackers” joining for the 2025/26 season, the club’s meager 13 goals in 13 games demonstrates a failure in player assessment at the board level.
The article points out the alarming statistic that three key attackers—Pule Mmodi, Wandile Duba, and Ashley du Preez—all have zero league goals, making the top-scorer, Flavio Silva (4 goals), look isolated. The article concludes that unless the board makes significantly better decisions in the transfer market, a “summer exodus” is inevitable, and the current title challenge (a mere four points off the top) will evaporate.
