Jose Riveiro will spend the rest of his third season at Orlando Pirates walking with constant contract-related matters hanging on his neck.
Riveiro has already won five trophies at Pirates and has massive interests in the Betway Premiership this season, just like he is taking aim at the CAF Champions League with the third consecutive Nedbank Cup still there for the taking.
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For now, the fact is that the three-year contract that he signed when joining on July 1, 2022, runs up on June 30, 2025.
No extension has been concluded for the Spaniard with seven months remaining.
"Firstly, I don't think that as a coach you have to spend more than three years in the same place," Riveiro said after leaving his previous job at Inter Turku in Finland after running down another three-year contract.
There were no issues in leaving Inter Turku as he noted that all he needed was a new challenge, which then came at Pirates.
"For me, it is the maximum with exceptions of course, depending on the club philosophy and how much you renovate the squad year after year, and like I said before, how ambitious that club is to make every year different.
"In this case and in this context that I have, it's around that three years is the proper time to leave and look for a different challenge, and to the playing group (FC Inter Turku) to have a new face in the next winter who is going to tell them the same song but with a different music maybe.
"Different face, different motivation, and ideas of course.
"For the fans also, I think they need something new regularly, so I think it is good.
"It is not good to feel comfortable somewhere, where it is fine and nobody is critic with me, and I'm getting good results.
"Not going so far anymore but I think it is not positive, and you have to move the chair regularly.
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"It is the way to improve the club and the way to improve for us as coaches and it is the way to improve for the players.
"So, if a player has the same coach for way too long a period, the improvement will decrease. It is logic," said Riveiro in an extensive interview with Youtube channel Panorama Football.