Good morning, Good Fellas.
As the dust settles, things get clearer. Apparently, Enyimba has made Coach Yema the fall guy for the club’s current woes. A drastic move, if you ask me. Was he truly responsible for the debacle in Maputo or the perpetual delays in paying match bonuses and salaries owed to the players?
Well 6 draws in a row in the League. The away points apparently don’t count but home draws against Rangers and Sunshine, two teams against whom we scored goals that were disallowed. Some very Unfair officiating,. All that have yielded a painful result – Coach Yema is let go of his job.
Football is such a cruel game, and maybe unlucky terrain and coaches are usually the quickest to be fired. A player can be absolute rubbish, but you will keep paying them until their contract expires or until you both agree to part ways. If they refuse, you’ll keep paying them until their contract is over. Coaches probably don’t have such room for maneuver in the NPFL, though. I’m not sure.
Firing the coach might seem like a decisive move, but in the context of Enyimba’s struggles, it feels like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. The team’s woes run far deeper than one person, and swapping out the coach won’t magically fix the underlying issues. Until the club addresses the systemic problems, most of which we have spoken about repeatedly on this blog, they will continue to tread water, regardless of who’s at the helm.
The deed is done, and we’ve lost a promising young coach. Perhaps it was never meant to be – a mismatch from day one. A bad marriage – wrong place at the wrong time kind of thing. However, this decision will eventually shine a light on the real problems. Now we can’t hide behind results to explain why there’s no gas for the generator or why players arrived Maputo just one hour before kickoff.
As for the new man, Stanley Eguma, he was relieved of his duties at Rivers United earlier in the year because, according to the club, he was the “Arsene Wenger” of the League. During his tenure, the team’s performance stagnated, and vision waned, reminiscent of the struggles Enyimba faced under the sunsets of FAA’s chairmanship.
Does this appointment fill me with hope or optimism? No. But as an Enyimba fan, I can only hope that Eguma brings the Midas touch to turn the team’s fortunes around. I mean, some hailed him as a winner, a veteran, seasoned coach who will bring us glory. The new “Sheriff in town” like the club’s twitter account called him.
How do I feel about it? Oh it’s simple – it’s actually an old saying: “Smile today, because you will cry tomorrow.”
