Nabi’s value up again with Chiefs still on the hunt

Nasreddine Nabi’s success has kept his name as a subject of discussion at Kaizer Chiefs, though his terms will no longer be what he would have taken last year.

Nabi has already secured a return to the CAF Champions League with his Moroccan employers ASFAR (FAR Rabat) after a disappointing run this term.

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ASFAR will be joined by Josef Zinnbauer and Fadlu Davids’ Raja Casablanca in the Champions League with the two clubs guaranteed of finishing in the top two this season in Morocco.

Four games remain in the Botola Pro League with ASFAR holding a four-point lead, which gives them the advantage in the home stretch.

This will be the third title in a row for Nabi after the huge success that he enjoyed with Young Africans, where he won the double treble in his two years with the Tanzanians.

That success with Yanga is what prompted Chiefs to engage the Tunisian-Belgian, whose terms were not steep.

In moving to Chiefs, the 58-year-old would have vastly improved on the USD15 000 (approx. R288 000) that he was earning at Yanga.

While the terms were no issue in the talks with Amakhosi, the proposed move eventually fell through after Nabi stood his ground on bringing his own technical team.

That technical team would have included Cedric Kaze as assistant, conditioning coach Helmy Gueldich, analyst Khalil Ben Youssef, plus the possibility of another staffer.

Nabi then joined ASFAR in July after the Chiefs option fell through and in his time back in North Africa will have the Botola Championship trophy to lift within the next four weeks.

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That success will push Nabi’s worth further up to figures that push him nearer to the brackets of top earners in