Simba SC targets major squad revamp next season  

Salim Abdallah, alias 'Try Again', Simba SC Board of Directors Chairman, admitted the 2022/23 season has witnessed the club failing to perform well.

According to the official, the situation has been brought about by transfer mistakes the side made and led to its downfall which started two years back.

Abdallah pointed out: "Many are looking at our downfall this current season but our downfall started two years ago after we let Clatous Chama and Luis Miquissone leave, there was no replacement for them."

"If you look at us we brought Banda (Peter) but he could not fill the boots, we plan to see how we will make improvements in each of the club's departments to be better," Abdallah noted.

He added that they will make important signings that will match other prominent outfits, adding the experience of leaders and players will help to provide great competition ahead of the outfit's participation in the Africa Super League.

He clarified that Simba SC has parted ways with South African fitness coach, Kelvin Mandla, while there are rumours of the return of Moroccan fitness coach Adel Zrane, who once did his job successfully at the outfit.

The Simba SC boss pointed out: "We will make major signings to match our ambitions and that is something we are focused on at the moment, players that are out of contract but still fit in our club's ambitions deserve another shot and we will do everything in our power to make it possible."

He moreover apologized to Simba SC fans and members for the outfit's lack of titles in another season while mentioning that the injuries that key players suffered contributed to the outfit's downfall.

"There is no one to either blame for or point fingers at the people or leaders that were given the responsibility of taking charge of players' registration."

"For example, Sawadogo (Ismael) was good in the Moroccan Premier League, and he came to Simba SC, showed good displays but later got injured and failed to prove his worth," the official added.

Simba SC was knocked out of the 2022/23 CAF Champions League quarterfinals by Morocco's Wydad Casablanca, losing 5-3 to the latter in a penalty shootout after having been locked to a 1-1 aggregate score.

In this season's NBC Premier League, one draw in seven games and one loss in 28 games, which have seen Simba SC record 67 points from 20 wins, were not enough to ensure the outfit lift the top flight's top honour.

Age-old rival, Yanga, won the Premier League trophy for the second year running, losing two games, managing two draws, and coming out victorious in 24 games to notch 74 points.

Simba SC, famously known as 'Wekundu wa Msimbazi', lost this season's Azam Sports Federation Cup (ASFC) semi-final to Azam FC, conceding a 2-1 loss to the latter, an opponent the outfit has failed to beat in the last three meetings this season.

The club has had several changes, as far as coaches are concerned, with the squad earlier hiring Serbian Zoran Maki that was later fired and replaced by Tanzanian Juma Mgunda as an interim head coach.

Mgunda was then demoted to the assistant coach position after the club had brought in Brazilian coach Roberto Oliveira.