Richards Bay coach Vusumuzi Vilakazi says his future remains unclear despite the club retaining their DStv Premiership status.

The Natal Rich Boys earned their way back into the top-flight after hammering Baroka FC 4-0 in their final playoffs encounter at the King Goodwill Zwelithini Stadium in Durban.

Richards Bay finished the playoffs table with eight points from four games, having won two and drawn two to top the group.

As a result the likes of the University of Pretoria and Baroka FC got relegated back to the Motsepe Foundation Championship.

“Maybe the first thing I must say and be honest about is to thank the chairman for believing and trusting in me for such a huge task – the whole process, not only the play-offs,” Vilakazi told SABC after the game.

“Despite the limited experience I have as a young coach, he still believed in me to turn the corner, so I need to appreciate that, [especially] coming to a team that was not winning games.

“I think this will have a very big impact on my coaching career. I’ve always been saying, and some people were laughing, that this is not the best of Kanu – they are yet to see the best of me.

“Will I stay? Definitely. But we still have to sit down and talk with the chairman, obviously. My contract has ended, but we will sit down and see,” he added.

“I think he did make a statement [saying], ‘If it’s not broken, why fix it.’ But that will depend on the negotiations that we have, and also trying to align the team with the personnel – see who we can bring and release, and stuff like that,” he concluded.

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