If his comment during a post-match press conference is any pointer, Nikola Kavazovic is among those in pole position to fill one of the hottest coaching jobs in the country, the vacant Kaizer Chiefs post.
Kavazovic, the Belgrade-born Serbian, completed a league and cup double for Botswana's Township Rollers in his maiden season of a two-year term in Botswana on Wednesday.
Township Rollers beat Extension Gunners 2-0 to seal the Telecommunications Corporation Premiership deal.
In February Kavazovic oversaw a 4-2 Mascom Top 8 final triumph over Orapa United.
Contacts in Gaborone told this columnist that during a post-match press conference after clinching the championship, Kavazovic confirmed contact with Chiefs.
It is a huge indicator considering that in March he refuted reports linking him with Amakhosi. And the Baroka FC job has been taken by former Chiefs striker Wedson Nyirenda.
Perhaps Kavazovic was exercising professional courtesy back then. The position still had an occupant, Steve Komphela, even though he was hanging on by the thinnest of threads while living on borrowed time.
Kavazovic's conduct stood in complete contrast to that of the eccentric Belgian with an acerbic tongue for whom ethics seem to be an unfathomable foreign concept. Komphela found a word for him in his vast vocabulary - mercenary.Chiefs football manager Bobby Motaung told TimesLive this week that the club is mining through 15 applications in search of a man who will raise Chiefs from the rubble.
"We are working around it, but we are doing it properly. We're not just in a rush. "We're not doing a hasty job. We are doing our work to get a proper man for the job... Like I say, it's a process. It's not like you can do a thumbsuck and get a coach overnight.
"I think the process is unfolding. We will make announcements soon."
Soon will be in June and it can't come soon enough.
Motaung senior, who Patrice Motsepe refers to as the "father of South African football", is holding his cards close to his chest in terms of his choice.
The project of breathing life back into the bruised and battered brand is a task King Kaizer is giving careful consideration.
He is cognisant of the fact that the successful candidate has to be he who can give Chiefs style, guile and identity and the quality of audacity - chutzpah.He is concerned that the successful candidate must be someone who can help Chiefs cover the lost ground they've lost to champions Sundowns, who have been South Africa's most successful team in the past five years.
He would have seen how the coaching change at Orlando Pirates immediately injected an energy and a radiance that saw them finish second - not that a bridesmaid finish matters at Bucs.
Someone like Manqoba Mngqithi, the only man to preside over a final that started at 8.15 and ended after 11pm - the 6-0 drubbing of Ajax Cape Town by Lamontville Golden Arrows.
Chiefs are crying out for a protagonist of positive attacking soccer.
Mngqithi is a practitioner of that approach and has all the attributes. He knows how to build a team, is an astute student of the game, has an eye for talent and the temperament and patience to build it up.
He has been part of the most successful soccer story in the country for half a decade, but his CV is not among the 15 applications, is it now?
With bated breath, the country awaits Motaung to play his hand.Will he, in due course, confirm the comment of contact by announcing Kavazovic has a two-year contract with a one-year extension option?
Whichever direction he goes, it must resonate with the restless natives whose allegiance is with Naturena Village...