Zwane vs Baxter raw: ‘Lee backstabbed Stuart because he was a problem’

Kaizer Chiefs coach Arthur Zwane has again hit back at Stuart Baxter‘s comments that he and Dillon Sheppard backstabbed him during his tenure.

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Baxter rejoined Chiefs in July 2021, but he was out of the team in December after the club was hit by positive cases of Covid-19.

At the time, both Zwane and Sheppard were tasked with leading the team until Baxter returned at the start of the current year.

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Chiefs didn’t do too well under Baxter, and it came as no surprise when he was fired in April 2022 as the management felt the ship was sinking further under his watch.

Now, speaking to SABC Sport on Wednesday, Baxter said he felt backstabbed by the duo – but Zwane dared the veteran mentor to elaborate on that.

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Zwane said they thought Baxter would be but a mentor to them instead, the only thing they (Zwane and Sheppard) got was disrespect.

The 48-year-old mentor the dropped a bombshell, saying if Baxter wants to talk about being backstabbed, then the person he should point fingers to is none other than his son, Lee.

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Lee worked as a goalkeeper coach at Chiefs, and he stayed behind when his father was sacked, but Zwane feels he was a problem in the technical team.

ZWANE SAYS LEE BAXTER BACKSTABBED FATHER STUART AT KAIZER CHIEFS

“If he can elaborate how we backstabbed him. We thought we were working with someone who we can learn from; someone that’ll be our mentor,” Zwane told journalists.

“He’s the one who said he didn’t want the young players and I don’t know why he was saying that.”

“If he wants us to challenge him head-on then we’ll do it because they come here and disrespect us and expect us to keep quiet. His son [Lee] backstabbed him, not us because he was a problem as well,” added Zwane.

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