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Viewing the social websites, especially being so far away from home, you are bombarded by the excitement among the Dynamos fans around the world about the team that Lloyd Mutasa is creating and, incredibly, some have even gone to the extent of suggesting that the Glamour Boys will this season play like Barcelona.
Lloyd was a stylish midfielder, one of the very best players that I have seen in action, and – had he emerged in another era – he could have played his football at a far bigger stage than playing the rest of his football at home.
He appears to have embraced the same stylish ways into his coaching and he never compromised them when he guided little Kiglon last year and transformed them into a team that played some eye-catching football and, crucially, which had the heart to play its best game against the big teams.
Dynamos have some of the most exciting players in Zimbabwe right now and maybe you can understand the cause for optimism among their fans.
They have guys who are hungry to make a name for themselves and, in the case of Denver Mukamba and Archie Gutu, who have already been given a grand stage to showcase their talents and now want to prove that they belong to the same class as the big boys.
But Dynamos, being DeMbare, means that you always have to treat what is coming out of the club with a little bit of caution.
I have been around for too long to know that because I was there at the turn of the millennium when Moses Chunga’s Kidznet project suffered a stillbirth.
The pressure is on Mutasa now to keep winning and, in my view, that will be the club’s fault line because there is a general expectation that all the teams will not only be beaten but the team will do it with a style that will delight the fans.
It’s hard to bank on Dynamos to win the league championship these days because they seem to have perfected the art of finishing second and I think, contrary to what most of their fans believe, this will be a tough season for the Glamour Boys. Yes, they have some exciting talent but bigger tests will come along the way.