Steve Morison will ramp up talks with the board over which players he would like to see handed new contracts after being handed the Cardiff City manager's position until the end of next season.
It was announced that Morison would stay in his post for at least another full season after the Bluebirds' 1-0 win over Derby County, a victory which took them up to 18th in the league and, crucially, 16 points away from the relegation zone.
There has been a marked improvement in results, performances and recruitment since Morison and his coaching staff took the reins and few could argue that he was not deserving of his new deal.
It finally gives Morison the chance to look a little further ahead. With the club's status as a Championship club for another season consolidated, one would think, eyes will turn towards the huge job which needs doing in the summer.
A big part of that will be tying players down to new deals, should the club wish. Ten senior players are heading out the door as things stand and Morison last week said it would be unfair to decide over any of their futures until the manager's own position was locked in.
Now that has happened, Morison said he can press ahead with making his recommendations to the board over which players he would like to remain at the club next season.
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"I'm sure now it's a conversation I can actually bring up with the board," Morison said of the contracts situation. "I can ask where we are going, what we are doing, what the budget is.
"Is there anyone I want to keep? How do they fit into what we want to do? We can start having those conversations now.
"Hopefully, we will get some new contracts out to some people and that can all escalate a bit quicker now."
From that last sentence, it is clear that Morison does at least want to keep a couple of players heading out the door.
He has spoken highly of Joe Ralls when asked about the midfielder's future, while he also said he has held early talks with the board over Sean Morrison, too - quite what the contents of that conversation was is uncertain, though.
But it is all part of what promises to be a huge summer, arguably the biggest transfer window for the club in a decade or more.
Morison has proved with his January recruits that he knows what players he wants, how they fit into his system and they have all made positive impacts.
That will have to be the case this summer, too, and Morison knows it.
He wants Cardiff City to catch up with the top dogs in the division and that, he said, all boils down to the club's recruitment this summer.
Get it right and that, he says, will hold the key to Cardiff's success.
"The things I'm putting in place will help the football club long term," he added. "We need to evolve as a football club, we need to move away from where we've been because the game's changing.
"We've got to move with the change - recruitment and scouting teams know what type of players we want. It would be the same if someone else was here.
"The reality is there is more pressure now. We've got to produce a squad of players and get them going in the right direction. The pressure has ramped up now.
"The main thing is we can't relax and settle, we need to keep pushing and raising our standards. That starts in pre-season and having a whole pre-season.
"We've got to nail down a culture, accountability and expectations on the group. The biggest key to this job is recruitment and getting that right. If we get the recruitment right it'll make what happens on the pitch a hell of a lot easier."
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