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Africa-Press<\/a> – Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>DStv Premier League club Supersport United has laid to rest speculation around head coach Kaitano Tembo\u2019s immediate future at the club following reports that the Zimbabwean\u2019s job is not safe after a poor run of form.<\/p>\n

Supersport chief executive office Stan Matthews said they are happy with the work Tembo is doing especially developing youngsters and rumours of his possible sacking are being propagated by people who intend to destabilise the club. Matthews said:<\/p>\n

Even though we\u2019ve had a very bad run recently, Kaitano has done an excellent job of transitioning a team that plays more players under the age of 24 than any other club in the PSL.<\/p>\n

Kaitano has invested a significant amount of game time into our younger players, as we did with Ronwen at age 19, Tebza (Teboho Mokoena), (Luke) Fleurs and (Sipho) Mbule at age 18, and others.<\/p>\n

This will pay off for us as a club next season and beyond. So, while we are obviously disappointed with the way we\u2019ve slipped out of contention (for the league title) after an excellent start, we also see a tremendous amount of progress in the club as a whole.<\/p>\n

Kaitano needs to be commended for having the courage to give young players a chance, which we all know mostly leads to a sacrifice of short-term points while they pay their PSL school fees.<\/p>\n

We clearly have not shown the depth to sail smoothly through the injury storm we have had since February, especially losing Bradley (Grobler) and (Thamsanqa) Gabuza at the same time.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know why some of the media wants to try to place pressure on Kaitano, when the facts now are that, we cannot win the league and we also cannot be relegated.<\/p>\n

We have consciously decided to give some of the younger players game time, as well as assess who will and won\u2019t be part of our set up come the new season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. DStv Premier League club Supersport United has laid to rest speculation around head coach Kaitano Tembo\u2019s immediate future at the club following reports that the Zimbabwean\u2019s job is not safe after a poor run of form. 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