Moroka Swallows looks set to be without head coach Steve Komphela when the DStv Premiership season resumes next week.
Komphela transformed Swallows from a mere top-eight team, to a top-four, top-three challengers after he joined from Mamelodi Sundowns, where he implemented a style of play in line with modern trends of playing from the back.
However, the 'transformation' project was undermined late last year, as the management could not meet obligations to pay players and staff their salaries.
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The former Kaizer Chiefs coach was under-fire from the supporters in December last year, just before the season went into a break, as the Birds started to have a string of bad results and fans called for the veteran coach's head, before he revealed that actually players were not training due to unpaid salaries.
The matter escalated to a point where Swallows could not honour fixtures against Mamelodi Sundowns and Golden Arrows and were subsequently charged and fined by the PSL.
In addition to the saga of players being fired and having to re-negotiate new deals, Komphela could also be next to be fired, as he has not been part of the preparations for the second round of the season.
"There is a lot of things that changed, without knowing, there has been players who got expelled, I didn't know, there were disciplinary hearings I didn't know, there were trials that were conducted, I didn't know," Komphela said on Radio 2000's Game On.
"Elasto Kapowezha (team manager) is doing things I don't know but when the match plays, when I have to go to Dobsonville, the supporters are screaming for my name, telling me 'No, Steve you must go' and all that and now when I go back, how do I enter that terrain when a lot has been dismantled?
"A lot of preparation has been happening in your absence, how do you then take hold of a steering wheel of a car that you never built? But I still respect the fact that they are an existing club, an entity but a lot of things just happened in a way that I have never seen in football, since I played, since I coached, I've never seen anything like this in my life," he added.
Assistant coaches Musa Nyatama and Ditheko Mototo are believed to be in charge of training sessions.
The Birds are scheduled to re-open their campaign away to Cape Town next Tuesday.
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