The sacking of Stuart Baxter yesterday has led to a variety of names being linked to the head coaching job at Kaizer Chiefs
Interim coach Arthur Zwane and jobless Benni McCarthy are believed to be at the top of the shortlist
There are indeed other candidates for the position, each more unlikely than the other as speculation grows about who will take the helm

Silly season has begun in earnest towards the end of the Premier Soccer League season.

With sackings and appointments the order of the day, unlikely candidates are also being linked to posts they normally wouldn't be.

Could Benni McCarthy Somehow End Up As Kaizer Chiefs Coach? — Temporary Kaizer Chiefs coach Arthur Zwane and Benni McCarthy lead the candidates' list for the Amakhosi head coach gig. Image source: @iDiskiTimes
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According to SowetanLIVE, out-of-work Benni McCarthy is one of two candidates been suggested for the vacant Kaizer Chiefs head coach position after Stuart Baxter was sacked yesterday. The other is interim coach Arthur Zwane, who will lead the Amakhosi in their remaining seven matches of the DStv Premiership.

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McCarthy was fired by Amazulu over a month ago, and had already been linked to the Orlando Pirates gig where Mandla Ncikazi and Fadlu Davids are the temporary co-coaches. The article reported, however, that McCarthy might not quite be ready to be appointed to the job at Naturena, with the "second-season syndrome" that has affected him at Usuthu and Cape Town City thought to be a deterrent.

This places Zwane on the inside lane, though he is not guaranteed to get the job. When Gavin Hunt was fired last season, he was appointed as the temporary coach, a job he did quite admirably.

He guided the Amakhosi to an unlikely eighth-place finish after they hovered near the relegation zone at one point in a disastrous season, before seeing them through to the CAF Champions League final. Unfortunately, Chiefs suffered a 3-0 defeat to Pitso Mosimane's Al Ahly, though Zwane's reputation, already high among Chiefs fans, was enhanced after the ambulance job he pulled off.

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Other possible candidates include Calvin Johnson and Roger De Sa, who both recently departed Al Ahly and the Egyptian national team respectively as assistants to Mosimane and Carlos Queiroz.