On Escom United’s technical panel axing

On Escom United’s technical panel axing

Escom united is arguably one of the TNM super league best teams, the electricians as they are proudly called, have been one of the most consistent sides in the league in the past three years. Escom have won the league once and managed to maintain their status as a top three team in that belief period (past three years).

The 2011/2012 football calendar will be one of the unforgettable seasons to the Escom faithful, not that the season will be remembered in terms of success no, but this is the year which marked the beginning of their indifferent spell.

In that season Escom shocked the football fraternity, when it unceremoniously axed more than ten players in the 2011/2012 season over the demanding of their unpaid dues. The Escom united board or whosoever  made that decision made a wrong decision by axing more than ten experienced players, this was like putting the team in a critical condition of a transition period.

Players like Chimango Kayira, Ndaziona Chatsalila, Chipiliro Jose, Noel Mkandawire, and Maupo Msowoya to just mention a few were all subjects of that exit.

 Now the Escom board has fired its technical staff over the team’s performance. This season Escom has been performing poorly, as they are occupying the last position of the log, something unusual to a team like Escom.

From my point of view I agree that Escom is not performing well, fine, but the issue is, whose problem is it? Is it the problem of the coach? Or is it the problem of the players?

I personally see that this is the problem of the Escom United’s board; it is yielding the fruits of its failure in man management. They is no way any big team in the world would axe eleven players and bring in eleven new ones and expect that team to be serious league competitors.

Let’s take a good example on that. Arsenal did something similar to that in 2006/2007 season  when they sold most of their experienced players, the likes of Thierry Henry, Ashley Cole(yes the same Ashley Cole who is arguably the best left back in the world),Robert Pires, Sol Campbell ,Jose Antonio Reyes  to just mention a few.

What happens to arsenal now? They have not won the league for more than seven years. But that is only if I am not being frankly enough to the arsenal supporters. But the truth is that they have not won any trophy for seven years. If a big team like Arsenal is still paying the price for a failure of a smooth transition, how would you expect Escom to be performing well?

So you have seen the results of man management failure what can produce, this proves that for Escom’s scenario it’s the board which needs to step down for its failure to make a good transition. If the club indeed wanted to get lead of the dead wood in the Escom squad, I bet that was not the way to do it.

Even the newly appointed technical staff comprising of Chiukepo Msowoya (yes the same 23 year old former Orlando pirates striker)Jacob Ngwira 27, Noel Mkandawire (the same player they forced him out on loan after failing to sell him) and Kondwani Gawani. We will closely wait and see what the inexperienced technical staff will do.