Hunt: It is embarrassing what TTM said about me

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Gavin Hunt
  • Post published:July 3, 2020

Bidvest Wits coach Gavin Hunt says he has not received any coaching offers following the club’s sale to Tshakhuma Tsha Madzivhandila (TTM), adding that the way TTM handled his position at the club was embarrassing.

Hunt faces the prospect of being without a club and missing any pre-season training for the first time since 1981, as he told SAFM in an interview.

The coach, who has enjoyed success with the Clever Boys, will be one of the big casualties from the sale to TTM, and Hunt has since insisted that the way which the club’s new owners disregarded him as too expensive in the media without even talking to him was embarrassing.

“I know the nature of the beast. The suitcase is always at the front door, I’ve done every pre-season since 1981,” Hunt told SAFM as quoted by FARPost.

“This might be the first time I miss it…already I’m going mad. Obviously, I’m from Cape Town but I have lived in Gauteng for 22 years. I’m now more of a Joburger [Johannesburg resident].

“I have nothing on the table at the moment. It’s also embarrassing what TTM said about me because they didn’t even talk to me.

“I don’t like it when my name gets thrown around and gets linked with clubs that have coaches. Obviously, I would still like to be coaching next season,” he added.

Hunt also looked to protect his player until the very end by stating that the players need to look after themselves.

“I don’t want to put it in public about the moves some of my players have made. But players have to think about their livelihoods.

“There are not too many big opportunities in SA when it comes to money and playing. To get the balance right is not easy.

“But I spoke to every player and wished them well. When you have a guy that’s 28 or 29, obviously he needs to look after his future and those types of things. But he needs to play football as well,” he concluded.