Nairobi City Stars head coach Nicholas Muyoti has one thing on his prayer item all through the off-season that he hopes comes just as drawn up. The prayer is to his club management – asking it to keep as many of his current players in the team, and retain a few others who made a big impression last season.##NAJAVA_MECA_7353136##The same management, as per Muyoti, that exercised patience and kept him in his job, he hopes will come to his rescue as the team works to replicate a brilliant first season back in the top-tier.”I am anticipating us making very minimal changes to the current team,” Muyoti said when asked of the path forward. “If there exists any changes, then they will come from us beefing up our already existing squad.”On demand: Tusker’s Oduor attracting huge interest from three Zambian clubsOf much concern was his team’s defense – one that conceded 49 goals last season – ranking as the fourth worst in the league.”It wasn’t a good sight,” Muyoti spoke of his team defense. “We will need to add extra bodies in there and work as a team to improve what we had.”Of much importance however, will be for Muyoti to have his pivotal players remain in the fold.One of them, Kevin Etemesi, who has attracted lots of interest from Premier League clubs including; AFC Leopards and Talanta FC, is among the players the former Kakamega Homeboyz manager talked about, hoping he sees him next season at City Stars.BFK names provisional team for twin African Championship events”I liked how he gathered confidence as the season went on,” Muyoti said. “He is a player who made us change our entire formation. We were initially working with a 4-3-3 formation but shifted to a 4-4-2.”He formed a great partnership with Dennis Oalo upfront and if he works on a few things – including decisiveness and consistency – I believe he will be an important piece for us next season.”Gor Mahia are interested in Nairobi City Stars forward Kelvin Etemesi. It’s now a race between the league champions, AFC Leopards, Ulinzi Stars and FC Talanta who are reviewed as outsiders in the battle for the attackers signature.Nairobi City Stars have also offered the… pic.twitter.com/Tp9LpsE0Dt— Ole Teya (@TeyaKevin) June 30, 2023 Asked about preserving his loan players including: Mohammed Bajaber and James Mazembe, Muyoti said: “Negotiations with their respective mother teams have already started. We have made approaches and hope that we will get to absorb them.”The good thing is they want to be here, and so that’s my prayer. Let’s have a team that contends next season.”
