Still,history suggests that he would be wise to think seriously about his next career move;all that glitters,especially in Europe,may not be gold.

Trigger-happy chairmen,entitled supporter groups and players who are quick to make their displeasure known about their coach if things are not going their way abound.

And there is a chauvinism in the European game that does not exist elsewhere as far as coaches are concerned,particularly in England.

While Arsene Wenger was plucked from the J-League to manage Arsenal in 1996,the game was very different.

Bob Bradley,an American coach who had had great success with the US national team and in club football in the MLS was hired by Swansea City,then in the Premier League,in October 2016 – and sacked less than three months later.

Postecoglou has had success wherever he has gone in club football if he is given time.

At South Melbourne he was part of the furniture,having joined the club as a child. Appointed coach in 1996,he led them to back-to-back NSL championships in 1998 and 1999.

In Brisbane,he took time to sort out the playing group to mould the squad in his image before leading the Queenslanders to two titles and the longest unbeaten record in Australian sporting history of 36 games.

His record suggests that he is much happier when managing at club level,where he can work day-in and day-out with players,groom them and cultivate in them the swashbuckling,daring approach he wants to bring to the game.

Yokohama are a well-endowed club with good resources. Postecoglou still has a year left on his contract there,and has downplayed talk of a move to Europe.

It would be fascinating to see if he can emulate Kawasaki Frontale,who went back-to-back in 2017 and 2018,and win the title again in 2020.

Even more interesting will be to see how he fares in the Asian Champions League. It is a competition the Marinos have yet to win,although it is one in which Japanese clubs have fared well in the past,Urawa Red Diamonds winning in 2017 and Kashima Antlers in 2018.