The Chiefs train Solinas, an aggressive coach who aspires to perfection, says Mphahlele

Giovanni Solinas is an aggressive coach who aspires to perfection and wants to win, said Kaizer Chiefs defender Ramahlwe Mphahlele

Mphahlele understated the impact that the late arrival of Solinas – three weeks and Half in pre-season While the Chiefs were fighting to nominate a new head coach, they could have a season of Amakhosi.

Solinas finally received his work permit on Tuesday, meaning that the 50-year-old Italian will take his place on Amakhosi's Absa Premiership 2018. "He wants to do things the way he wants and make sure the team plays as he wants," said Mphahlele.

"It's difficult, change is not easy, especially at the beginning.

" But we adapt. We do everything in our power. We try to work with him to say "OK, this can be done, it can not be done."

"We work very hard. Especially in the field where we have to try to iron out the little things and try to repair the team.

"It takes time, it's a new era, we lost our coach last season, now he's a new coach, we have to try to reach a high level." 19659002] "Bur is a very aggressive coach, he wants perfection, he wants us to work hard, he wants us to change the mindset."

The late arrival of Solinas means that 39, former Free State Stars coach will have had three effective weeks to work with his team and implement his style.

Mphahlele said that he hopes to be compensated by the hunger of the Chiefs 'players for catching up their last three seasons without a trophy – a sterile spell that cost his job to Solinas' predecessor, Steve Komphela, in April [19659002] "Yes, we have a new coach.But, look, the players are still the same," said the right-back of Bafana Bafana.

"And of course, most players know what happened last season and they want to change the situation."

"With the arrival of the coach, well Sure, he has his own philosophy, but we, as players, agree that we need to change things.

"So we have to work with him. I know that he arrived late; he wants us to do things this way. But the good thing is that most of the players were there last season. And they still suffer from last season.

"And I just hope it makes us do better."

The Chiefs have a tough two-game opening, following their trip to Pretoria by hosting PSL champions 2016-17 Bidvest Wits at the FNB stadium on Tuesday, August 7th.