A Kaizer Chiefs legend has raised serious question marks over the club's decision to again appoint a head coach with zero previous top-flight experience as similarly with Arthur Zwane.
Ntseki has never before been employed as a head coach in the DStv Premiership which was the case with Zwane last season when the club's hierarchy requested the latter to take over from Stuart Baxter who failed to complete a year in charge just as his predecessor Gavin Hunt.
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Whatever happens now, Ntseki will lead with Zwane as assistant.
"Firstly, I have to specifically mention that this is a team that I love having fallen in love with it back in the '80s when I started knowing about South African football," Mohammed Ouseb tells KickOff.
Ouseb arrived at Chiefs from Namibia at the beginning of the 1998/99 season and spent three impressive years delivering eye-catching performances that ultimately saw him named the 1998/99 KickOff Footballer of the Season.
"Those were the years when the club was top of everything and was the reason why I got attracted to this team.
"I dreamt of playing for this team and got to live my dream by donning the famous gold and black jersey.
"I still love this team regardless of that we have not been doing well and fact is that other teams have taken over with Mamelodi Sundowns now the best.
"If certain things don't change (at Chiefs) then Sundowns will rule for another decade and so.
"With regards to the new appointment of the new coach I wish him well.
"I'm always the kind of person that gives the benefit of doubt.
"I know that he has been part of the system at Chiefs last season and has coached at the international level having been part of Bafana Bafana and the youth teams.
"He (Ntseki) was there last season and has certain knowledge of what is happening there and knows the players.
"I hope and believe that with the new players that are arriving he had a huge part to play in bringing them in.
"I hope he had a say and real input in bringing in the new players that have been brought in because there will be no use in making the same mistakes every season of having players brought in without the coach having any say or knowledge.
"I sincerely hope they have been discussing all player-related matters with him.
"Ntseki has been appointed so I will give him the benefit of doubt and don't have a choice than to support him because at the end of the day it is about our team.
"But on the other note it is funny that in the past two seasons we have given the head coach job to gentlemen that don't have any experience of coaching at that level.
"I mean look at Arthur, he was given the job with no experience, and it was kind of surprising and now we are doing the same thing again.
"The gentleman (Ntseki) might has been in football but does he have the knowledge to coach at that level because from what I know there is 0.01% chance of any big team to bring in somebody who has never coached at that level.
"We know what happened last season with a similar appointment and we know what happened with Bafana Bafana with the gentleman now in charge at Chiefs.
"I don't think he achieved anything with Bafana Bafana and hasn't coached a club for how many years now.
"I don't know what drives people making these appointments to think that these appointments will perform miracles.
"Honestly, I don't know.
"We all hope that this appointment will bring something positive, and he might surprise us which will be a good thing.
"If he can make these new players gel well with the ones that are there then we are good to go.
"With the signings I'm impressed that while we are not doing that well we are still attracting players of that calibre.
"I hope they can bring something positive to the Amakhosi family," says Ouseb.
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