POWER Dynamos coach Tenant Chilumba is trading on thin ice following his side’s stuttering start to the 2016 MTN-FAZ Super League season.
Meanwhile, Power have boosted their squad after midfielder Fwayo Tembo signed a two-year deal with the team.
Identical 2-1 defeats to champions Zesco United and Nchanga Rangers in three matches has left the club technical committee worried.
The technical committee sat yesterday in light of the poor start and expressed its grave concerns over the Power coaching bench.
Power chairperson Gilbert Simakoloyi said the committee would be monitoring the performance of the technical bench as the form of the six-time Zambian league champions was alarming.
Simakoloyi said in an interview after the meeting in Kitwe yesterday that the committee expressed worry with the team’s current performance and have since started keeping a close watch on the technical bench.
He stressed that losing two games was worrying and that the club made it clear during the end-of-year party that team needed to perform well.
Just three days ago, incensed Power fans, who could not stand seeing the team lose at home to Zesco, complained about the coach’s performance and demanded that he gets fired.
Simakoloyi said the technical committee did not make any decision but that the contracts of technical staff were performance-based.
“We have not fired anyone but the performance is worrying us because we have lost two games already. The technical bench knows what the club expects of them because this was discussed. Contracts are performance-based so we are keeping a close tab on this,” he said.
Simakoloyi said the technical committee is today scheduled to meet the coaching bench to let them know that their performance was worrying.
Power, who were joint leaders after Week-One games are already ninth on the table with three points from the three games they played.
On a good note, Power secretary Ricky Mamfunda confirmed in an interview that the club has signed Fwayo on a two-year deal.
Fwayo was a free agent after parting ways with Romanian club FC Astra with whom he had a difficult relationship over the last three years that saw him walk out on the club in August, 2013.
The Zambia and ex-National Assembly midfielder was previously linked with Nkana last year and Kabwe Warriors in 2013 when he initially left Astra.