What are the facts?

What is clear is that Mosimane is not desperate and will bide his time before making a decision on his future, which, judging by his plans to go on holiday, will only likely be in January 2024. He is also clear on what he expects from his next team and there’s a criteria to be met before he aligns with the club to try and deliver success.

Mosimane’s management team, led by his wife Moira

Tlhagale, is also quite clear about the qualities required by a club to lure the coach as well as the financial incentives that need to accompany it.

“It’s sort of a give and take, but I think one of the key things that I’ve found is to ensure that we all come out with an understanding that our coaches need to get exactly the same as the European coaches with context, right? I won’t say if he has to go and coach in any African country he must get what (Jose) Mourinho is getting, right? But it has to be, sort of, balanced in terms of what Africa pays. I do a lot of research in terms of what other coaches have been paid in South Africa and now another South African comes, or even outside… what they want to pay. And that’s what I fight about a lot. That it’s not necessarily where the person comes from, it’s about the level of stress and quality that they are gonna give and the fact that they are operating at that level,” she told this publication in an interview earlier this year.

The decorated mentor is also not short of options. Having proven himself against some of the best coaches in the world, the 59-year-old does have the luxury to cherry-pick his next team and do so at his own leisure.