Aaron Mooy, Australia's latest English Premier League star, admits that he has no idea what his future holds for next season.
The midfielder played a key role in driving outsiders Huddersfield Town to promotion to England's top flight, delivering a man-of-the-match performance in the play-off final win on penalties over Reading.
More Football Videos
Ronaldo: My numbers don't lie
Real Madrid's star forward Cristiano Ronaldo has said he has kept the critics quiet after helping the Spanish champions complete a memorable season with a second successive UEFA Champions League title.
But the 26-year-old former Melbourne City player spent the season in Yorkshire on loan from his parent club Manchester City, and is not sure yet where he will end up next campaign.
City could decide to recall him to Manchester to be part of Pep Guardiola's first-team squad, loan him back to Huddersfield, sell him to the Terriers or sell him to another club.
![Aaron Mooy helped Huddersfield Town into the EPL. But where will he be next year?](http://web.archive.org./web/20170607125015im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/w/g/3/m/i/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.gwkfpa.png/1496716423201.jpg)
"I am not sure yet," said Mooy, who arrived in Adelaide for the Socceroos World Cup qualifier a few days earlier.
" My agent and Manchester City are working all that stuff out. I am just trying to focus on the next game with Australia.
"Every player wants to play and I am no different to anyone else. Not everything is in my control. It doesn't really matter what I want to do, it's not just my decision - whatever happens, I will just get on with it and try my best like always."
Mooy was widely considered to be one of the players of the season in the Championship: so good were his performances that national boss Ange Postcoglou has singled him out, along with fellow midfielder Tom Rogic, as the new benchmark against which any aspiring Australian internationals should be judged.
![Tomi Juric is one of Australia's best performers overseas.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170607125015im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/s/0/2/x/a/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.gwkfpa.png/1496716423201.jpg)
This, however, is a player who knows that the bar has now been set much higher than ever before, with expectation and pressure ratcheted up several notches.
But is he concerned? Not in the least.
"I don't really like talking about myself too much. But yeah, I feel proud that I have had a good season," he said.
"That we got promoted, that no one expected it at the start, people were questioning why I went to Huddersfield at the start of the season.
"But like he [Postecoglou] said, it doesn't matter where you go, if it's in a decent league and you play well you create more attention for yourself.
"You never know how it's going to go, you never know how it's going to work out. I thought I was ready for the next challenge when I left Melbourne, maybe I was a bit more mature and a bit older and I had an understanding of how it works over there as well having been there previously.
"I wasn't surprised, I always believed in myself. I am definitely still happy and I can't believe it sometimes, but I'm slowly coming down to reality."
Mooy turns 27 in September and admits was far better prepared for life away from home both on and off the pitch this time than when he first went to England as a teenager.
"Once you get there you have to start firing straight away, otherwise you will be out and then you have to fight your way back in," he said.
"You have to try and not miss games as well because that gives an opportunity for another player to come in. If they do a good job that makes it a hard call for the manager. If you start well you put yourself in a stronger position."
Can Mooy now be the go-to man to lead Australia to the World Cup? Can he dominate against the Saudis, and will the pressure be a problem?
" I don't really think like that ... it's another opportunity for me to represent my country and try to progress. I don't think like that at all," he said.
"The World Cup is the biggest tournament in the game. Every professional wants to go to the World Cup and I am no different. I always watched the World Cup on television ... it looks amazing, and hopefully it happens.
"Pressure is part of the game, there is always pressure. I try and block out everything and just focus on what I am doing on the pitch. When I am in the game there's nothing about what everyone else is thinking, I am only thinking about what I am doing on the pitch."
If he plays to his own exacting standards, and his teammates match them, then there is every chance Australia can get the result it needs against Saudi Arabia.