Many PSL teams have used the gap to rope in new talent as there has been a lot of activity in the market with a number of teams in the PSL very active in adding to their squad sizes.

Through the first few days of the transfer window, Chiefs have remained inactive in the market place, and with confirmation from team manager Bobby Motaung on Wednesday that the Amakhosi have not lined up any potential new recruits for the remainder of the season, and are furthermore not letting any of their current crop of players go.

It looks as though Chiefs will enter the second half of the season with the same squad of players that they kicked off the 2006 – 2007 season with.

Chiefs on-fire midfielder Tinashe Nengomasha agrees with the stance of coach Ernst Middendorp, who is not looking at adding any new players to his squad in January and believes that the Chiefs team, as it stands, is strong enough to challenge for league honours.

The twenty four year old Nengomasha, who made his debut for Chiefs almost five years ago during the 2001 – 2002 season, is confident that the current Chiefs squad will be able put up a strong fight in the race for the PSL crown.

Nengomasha said, “If you look at our team, at the way our team is playing at the moment, there is cohesiveness in our play and each guy compliments the other well and we are really playing well together”.

The Zimbabwean international also feels that his team does possess strength in depth, and are in the fortunate position of having a number of players who could easily slot into the first eleven even though they might not have had much match practice.

He further added “In our last couple of games guys who came off the bench during the course of matches, just fitted into the rhythm and did not need time to acclimatize to the game or anything like that. We have been fortunate enough to have guys coming into games as substitutes, and getting straight in on the action by scoring crucial goals at vital moments”.

With Chiefs playing their first game against SuperSport United this Saturday in Tshwane, they will want to keep on dominating their opposition the way they did in their last couple of games in 2006. Tinashe and his teammates are aware that winning against a SuperSport team who have made gains and loses during the transfer window, which is still in its infancy will not be easy.

“Having defeated SuperSport in the SAA Supa8 Final recently means that they will throw everything at us, we also want to prove to them that victory in October was no fluke. It has been almost two and a half seasons since we last tasted victory against SuperSport in a league game and we are determined to turn that around on Saturday”.

Tinashe, who is currently three games off a personal milestone of having featured in a hundred and fifty games for Chiefs, intends for Chiefs to be successful in their next three games, which will mean that he reaches his personal milestone in style.

With the self confidence that the young midfield general possesses at the present time, and the confidence he has in the abilities of his team mates, bringing up his 150th game with a string of victories in his path looks a distinct possibility.