One of the senior players at Kaizer Chiefs has taken responsibility for the club's poor 2018/19 season – and shielded beleaguered coach Ernst Middendorp.
Willard Katsande this week said the Amakhosi squad had to do some introspection if the club is to break the four-year trophy drought.
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"The only way for the team to win is to have a change of attitude," the midfielder told the media, adding he did not think the players "pulled in the same direction" during the season to do better.
Asked whether Middendorp should stay on as Chiefs coach, Katsande declined to comment, but suggested the German shouldn't be used as a scapegoat.
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"It's up to him and the management (if the coach stays), but we don't have a problem with the coach. We are the ones who should take the blame because the only thing the coach can do is to give us tactics. It's up to us to execute," the 33-year-old Zimbabwean hardman said.
"Unfortunately I feel like somewhere, somehow, we failed coach Middendorp. I can't comment about his future, but as players we let him down."
