The veteran, who led India to regain the SAFF Football Championship in Pakistan in 2005, was removed from his position last year following India's poor start in the 2007 Asian Cup qualifiers.

Since then, he has been enjoying a welcome break but responded to Brothers Union's call to take charge of the two-time Premier League champions for the coming professional Football League.

Nayeem, well known for his shrewd brain, arrived in Dhaka on Thursday night and informed while attending Brothers' training session yesterday that he was busy making a football academy in Hyderabad.

"I have some lands in Hyderabad and had to settle some matters with them and now preparing to launch my academy. I refused offers from all the Kolkata giants after parting with the national team but decided to come here as I feel at home," he said.

Nayeem was instrumental in Brothers' maiden Premiership title in 2004 but compared to the team three years earlier, he has a weaker outfit at hand.

"I have no headache about team strengths. The past is past and all I want to do is concentrate on the current team.

"We have here a number of promising young players beside a lot of experienced guys. My job is to guide and motivate to become a fighting unit. I will work on their fitness first.

"Once in training, I'll know about the vacuums and decide on where we need foreign players," said Nayeem, who had the last laugh when he met the Bangladesh team in the SAFF soccer final in Karachi in December 2005.

Ironically, he will once again be pitted against the then Bangladesh coach Diego Cruciani -- who has taken over Abahani -- in the professional league.

"I think introducing professionalism is a worthy step. The first step is important because it takes a lot to just roll the ball.

"The main problem in the sub-continent is that we talk too much and work less. Football needs money and you cannot help the game rise without big finance. Footballers will work harder if they get enough money. We talk about Zidane, Ronaldo and Beckham now and again but have the organisers ever thought how much money we are paying our players compared to them," questioned the former Indian international before signing off after his first day's practice session at the club ground in Gopibagh.