Revealed: SSU’s offer to Hunt

SuperSport United are set to confirm Gavin Hunt as their new coach on a three-year deal this Friday pending board approval.

Hunt had a successful spell at the club before he left the Tshwane outfit nine years ago.

According to information gathered by SABC Sport, the four-times league title winner engaged in talks with his old employers recently his return is now imminent.

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Hunt won three championships between 2008 and 2010 with Matsatsantsa before taking on another project at the now defunct Bidvest Wits three years later, where he would win guide the club to a memorable first league title in nearly a century.

With the Clever Boys being sold, he was immediately snapped up by Kaizer Chiefs, but that is a spell he would want to rather quickly forget - holding on to the job for only eight months due to a string of poor results.

Not long after his exit, Hunt was appointed at Chippa United and that marriage didn™t last long either as the trigger happy chairman Siviwe ˜Chippa™ Mpengesi first suspended the coach and then confirmed his exit barely halfway through the 2021/22 season.

However, the public broadcaster™s sports desk has it on good authority that he is now coming full circle and set to be unveiled as SSU coach.

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Indications are that there are non-negotiable terms in place: that the board ratifies the three-year deal that has been offered along with the salary package, Andre Arendse be his assistant coach and that Hunt works with the backroom staff that was there last season under Kaitano Tembo.

Tembo was fired in April and Arendse, who had also been interviewed for the job, taking over in the interim and helping secure a Top 8 finish.

Should everything be signed off by the SSU board, then Hunt will be unveiled on Friday ahead of the new 2022/23 campaign next month.

By: Mazola Molefe