Why are CAPS failing?

not need the emotions of wealth or the madness of believing in too much juju.
No!
It does call for a return to basics.
Why have CAPS United, a club that has produced some of the best players to grace our fields in recent years, lost its identity in the intervening period? 
Is it the proliferation of “foreigners” both on the bench and on the park?
Is it the absence of bona-fide Makepekepe in its rank and file or just rank poor material at the coaches’ disposal?
Maybe it is the financial doping that has seen the club sell all their best talent the moment they begin to exhibit some flowers.
But, while this could be both controversial and downright provocation, maybe it is the presence of too many players from one club — Monomotapa, in the last 16 months.
And, lately, another coach from the same club who parted ways with Monomotapa in the same fashion as the most comical of United coaches in recent years, Maxwell Takaendesa Jongwe, has also been hired to deck the sinking ship. Now Taurai Mangwiro is the head coach at the club, formerly an assistant of Jongwe at Monoz.
Could he turn around the fortunes of the club as he had managed to do before his shocking exit at Monoz who are now seated third on the log only behind Bosso and DeMbare, two footballing dinosaurs in the land?
At the risk of attracting some vitriol from the Makepekepe faithful, the honest truth about the club’s fall is down to the absence of quality players at the club. A blow by blow assessment of the squad reveals a sickening lack of real players in the ensemble, a situation that makes it difficult for even the best of coaches to win matches under the pressure-cooker that is CAPS United.
Outside of Marvel Samaneka, Rahman Kutsanzira, Shingi Kawondera, Hardlife Zvirekwi and lately Leonard Fiyado, there isn’t any other player that CAPS United can honestly bank on to dig the team out the bunker that they always find themselves in.
Sadly Samaneka, by a mile the best player in the ensemble, is a moving hospital ward, with all his knees gone, meaning there is no guarantee he would give a coach three consecutive matches.
He is CAPS United’s equivalent of Tottenham captain and former England defender Ledley King. But the situation at the club demands that he be in the trenches every single minute.
Kutsanzira, a promising wide man who flounders more often than he sparkles, is one player who has failed to live up to his billing more because of the formation that successive coaches at the club play. He is more suited to a 4-2-3-1 formation where he is capable of taking on defenders at pace joining the lone strikers in the final third with punishing regularity.
He, too, can track back when the wingback loses possession away from his zone. But at the moment the club does not have the players to employ such a formation that has made the best teams in the world at the moment look invincible. Should CAPS find two very good wingbacks, not the joke that is Tapiwa Khumbuyani (how on earth can such a player be a captain?), at least Douglas Walaza is better because he does not wonder too much into enemy territory and lose the ball, which is a reverse specialty of Khumbuyani, the club may begin to find some innovation and poise in final third.
While Kawondera gives them the wily security of penetration, the former Warriors striker lacks the fitness to last the distance and if one considers that CAPS have conceded the majority of their goals in the last 15 minutes of the game then one understands the amount of work that Mangwiro and crew have on their hands to rescue the brand.
Zvirekwi certainly gives the club the balance in the shift zone (midfield) as the boy has boundless energy levels, has a wonderful passing range, reads the game well and can shoot with either foot with power. And with Fiyado busy up-front, drifting wide when necessary, the club have the only players to arrive at the club to add value.
Playing Dynamos is always a wrong barometer to judge the efficiency, or lack of it, of CAPS United because in true derby fashions, it is not always about form or class but it is a lot more.
With Mangwiro in charge, the team is guaranteed a gaffer who knows how to plug the holes in the side but the problem has been that the CAPS United defence leaks like a diamond sieve. Something has to be done to the defence urgently.
Jose Mourinho always says if you do not concede, you do not lose, and CAPS just need to stop the losing before they can worry about winning a match.
The fans need to understand and admit that the club has given contracts to too many players, most of which they did not need in the first place. For that reason, the club is clogged with expensive pensioners incapable of a shift.
I would challenge the club to justify the presence of Khumbuyani, Charles Chiutsa, Tendai Samanja, Tawanda Munyanduri, all formerly of Monoz.
Add Mangwiro, you have half the team from a club that is just nine points off the top, yet CAPS, who should have been strengthened by the additions, are closer to Quelaton, the basement club, than the top.
While the fans have a right to clamour for wins, they should also realise they do not have many players who have found the back of the net more than goalkeeper Edmore Sibanda. Is that how a good team should do or it is merely a swindle of some sort?
But one thing for sure is that CAPS United is too big a brand to suffer this ignominy. They should clear their deck, reintroduce the club junior policy that served it for a long time and cut down on buying players past their best or they will keep changing coaches every 90 days. By the way how many players who grew up at the club are in the side?
You can count them, isn’t it?
At least, the fans are still on their side and one of them, Tafadzwa Manera Choto, has a powerful message ahead of the derby tomorrow.
“A word of encouragement to my fellow CAPS United fans as we face Dynamos amid the difficult times we are facing as a club,” he wrote on his Facebook wall.
“I say in Sir Winston Churchill’s words ‘If CAPS United Football Club lives for a thousand years, let men say this was their finest hour’.”