HIGHLANDERS coach Kelvin Kaindu is reported to have signed a pre-contract with fellow Premiership football giants FC Platinum to joining the Zvishavane side next season, despite denials from all parties, #gdn has learnt. Kaindu’s contract with Highlanders ends in December and the former champions have started renewal negotiations, but the lure of a big pay day at Platinum could see the Zambian on the move, a source confided with #gdn yesterday. However, Highlanders chairman Peter Dube said they were working well with Kaindu. “We have our arrangement with Kaindu and we discuss his personal terms with him not with the Press. Why should we announce to the Press what we are discussing? Kaindu is employed by Highlanders and he has not shown any sign that one of his legs is with us and the other is with another team. “A lot has been said when he goes to Zambia, but when he goes it is with the blessing of the club. We will never follow him. As long as he keeps his time and attends to his duties in time we are not worried,” he said. FC Platinum media liaison officer Chido Chizondo also denied that they have engaged Kaindu. “That news has not come to me. What I know is that he has not signed any pre-contract with us,” she said. Kaindu referred all question to the Highlanders executive. “The best people to comment on my contract with Highlanders will be my bosses. But there is nothing like that,” he said. FC Platinum are reported to have been keen on the services of Kaindu early this year, but are said to have been deterred by buying out the remaining 12 months of his contract with Highlanders. Eventually, they settled for fellow Zambian Tenant Chilumba. Chilumba has since left for Power Dynamos in Zambia and our sources say he recommended Kaindu to take over. Lloyd Mutasa has been appointed to hold the reins until the end of the season. #gdn have never got it wrong on all coaches that have gone to Platinum even before their appointments were made official, starting with the late Benjamin Moyo, Rahman Gumbo and Chilumba. Under Kaindu, Highlanders became a force to reckon with in the league last year where they went for 23 matches unbeaten despite losing the championship to Dynamos on goal difference. Bosso restructured their technical department and recruited Kaindu, their former striker before the end of the tenure of former chairman Themba Ndlela in 2011. This was after the executive decided not to renew the contract of then coach Mkhuphali “Mr Cooper” Masuku. At the time, the Zambian national had been assistant at Zanaco in his native country before joining former English Premiership side Reading on attachment.$ #gdn
Posted on: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 02:58:37 +0000
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