Alan Tate has thrown his hat into the ring for the Swansea City job.
The club legend is currently coaching the under-18s side and has never hidden his ambitions of one day managing the club he represented with such distinction over the course of two decades.
Swansea chiefs are currently compiling a shortlist of candidates to succeed Graham Potter, who left for Brighton last week after just 11 months in charge in SA1.
Cameron Toshack, the club's under-23s coach, remains among the favourites, , the current boss of Tranmere.
And Tate has let the powers-that-be know that he is there if they want him after receiving backing from one of the biggest legends in the game.
"I have spoken to the new chairman about different things. The club know where I am," Tate told the BBC .
"The chairman is a football guy and an intelligent guy. He is getting the best people in the best places he feels to help the club go forward.
"If he sees me as part of that now or in the future then great. I have never made any secret that I would love to do the [manager's] job one day."
Tate, who is in the process of completing his pro licence course, has been keeping in touching with mentor Sir Alex Ferguson, under whom he progressed through the ranks at Manchester United before he joined Swansea, initially on loan.
"In the last two years I have started to really concentrate on how other managers work," said Tate.
"I went up to see Sir Alex and I have spoken to him on the phone a few times.
"He's openly encouraged me. Whichever way I want to go, whether it's a youth-team coach or a first-team manager, he would give me advice.
"But he seems to think [management] is the right path for me, that I have the right characteristics for it."
The 36-year-old added that if he were given the chance to manage his adopted club he would add an experienced campaigner to work alongside him, but that Swansea's style would change very little under his management.
"The best teams I played in were the ones that played the philosophy that Roberto [Martinez] started," Tate added.
"That's the way I see the game. Obviously there would be a couple of tweaks, but the style wouldn't change dramatically."
