The 10-time Tunisian league champions have been without head coach since Kais Zouaghi was sacked after their CAF Champions League and Tunisian Cup exits shortly before the coronavirus enforced suspension.
And reports in Tunisian media claim Krol has agreed to become the new leader of Sousse-based outfit when football resumes in the North African nation.
1997/98 - Ted Dumitru (Sundowns) - The Romanian replaced Reinhard Fabisch and guided them to their first PSL title. Sundowns suffered just four defeats, finishing on 68 points.
1998/99 - Ted Dumitru (Sundowns) - Dumitru won The Brazilians' second successive PSL title in a season that was decided on GD of +5. Sundowns and Chiefs finished on 75 points.
1999/00 - Paul Dolezar (Sundowns) - Born in Yugoslavia, raised in France, Serbian citizenship, Dolezar's arrival helped Downs complete a hat-trick of league titles with 75 points.
2002/03 - Roy Barreto (Pirates, bottom left) - Zim-born Barreto won the league but was then escorted out of Chatsworth Stadium under heavy security – one of the reasons he quit.
2003/04 - Ted Dumitru (Chiefs) - The Romanian was back at it again as he led Amakhosi to their first ever PSL-era title. They finished on 63 points.
2004/05 - Ted Dumitru (Chiefs) - This time 62 points were enough for the Glamour Boys to finish as champions. He claims he left to pursue a research programme in local soccer.
2005/06 - Miguel Gamondi (Sundowns) - The Argentinean won the league as a joint-coach alongside Neil Tovey. He arrived in South Africa in 2005 as an assistant to Angel Cappa.
2010/11 - Ruud Krol (Pirates) - This was the Buccaneers' third PSL title. The Dutch legend led Pirates to a historic treble but ended up leaving and was replaced by Julio Leal.
2011/12 - Augusto Palacios - (Pirates) - The Peruvian mentor took charge of the Soweto giants between March and September 2012, following Julio Leal's sacking.
2012/13 - Stuart Baxter (Chiefs) - This was the year Amakhosi did the double as they won both the league and Nedbank Cup. Baxter clinched their first league title in eight years.
2014/15 - Stuart Baxter (Chiefs) - Baxter, now dominant in the PSL, led Amakhosi to both the league and MTN8 trophies. He is the last foreign coach to have won the title.
Having managed CS Saxien, Club Africain, Esperance de Tunis and the Tunisia national team, the former Orlando Pirates boss holds vast experience of the league.
However, he rejected the notion that he's set to return and replace interim coaches Imed Ben Younes and Naoufel Chbil.
"They [the media] are always talking! All that's happened is someone from the club called me and nothing more," Krol tells snl24.com/kickoff.
The Dutchman, who's lifted 11 major titles in Africa since his arrival with the Egypt U-23 Olympic team in 1994 claims he's biding his time for a suitable project after seven different moves since leaving Pirates in 2011.
"I've had a lot of offers but I want to go to a club that is competitive but wants to play at the top of the league and it must be a club where I want to build up a team, like a project," Krol explains.
"You see like Liverpool it didn't happen over one year, how many years Klopp built up this team to arrive and achieve this kind of record-breaking run of winning matches.
"That is the impossible that a lot of presidents think that it is possible to do [overnight] but there is no coach that has the ability to arrive one day and be successful the next with a fantastic team.
"If you have all the money in the world to buy the players, it's still sometimes difficult."
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