Four coaches in four years is a worrying turn-over of tacticians at Bandari and it is time for the management to get to the root of the team’s poor performance.Despite heavy investment by its sponsors, Bandari has continued to remain an average team in the Football Kenya Federation Premier League (FKFPL) and rather than address the root cause-the management has preferred to always go for the easy way out-fire their coaches.And it does not seem to work and the circus continues every season. In 2020, the porters let go of former international Bernard Mwalala who had been at the helm for slightly more than one year.After Mwalala’s departure, the team hired another former international Ken Odhiambo who made a return to the side after previously handling the team.Odhiambo too did not last long and as Burundian Andre Casa Mbungo was hired replace him one year later.Mbungo did not last long either and last year was shown the door after a spate of poor results and he paved the way for Antony ‘Modo’ Kimani who was fired on Monday this week after the team lost to AFC Leopards in the Mozzart Bet Cup tournament.Bandari fire coach Kimani after embarrassing Cup defeat to AFC Leopards##NAJAVA_MECA_7226427##Looking at the trend, the problem does not seem to be coaching alone and the Bandari management will need to ask themselves if they have been giving their tacticians all the support to succeed.There seems to be a certain trend whereby the team loses key players and immediately get into a signing spree but before the new signings are allowed to settle the coach has been fired.This seems to be case with the recent sacking of Kimani. The former Mathare United and AFC Leopards defender had made some big signings in the recent transfer window and the new players had not yet settled.Granted, every sponsor wants trophies but at the trend Bandari management are going, it will be impossible for them to win anything.Furthermore, any good coach will be afraid to sign for them knowing very well that their future is on quick sand.Rather than just throwing money at the team, Bandari management must seek to recruit quality players and keep them for a while if they want to see good results.It is not rocket science. Look at Gor Mahia, Tusker and KCB. They have stuck with one coach for long and the stability in the teams is there to be seen.
