Mark Hughes injected a note of uncertainty surrounding his future as Wales coach after a second successive failure by his side to qualify for the finals of a major tournament.
Hughes is under contract until 2006, and insists that given the choice he would like to stay on in his job, but indicated that those who run the Football Association of Wales might view matters differently.
Wales' hopes of qualifying for the Euro 2004 finals ended in defeat after going down 1-0 at the Millennium Stadium last night and - given the fact he has been linked with the manager's job at several Premiership clubs - the result put a question mark over Hughes's future.
Hughes said: "Given the choice, yes, I would like to stay but maybe the fact we have not qualified means they [the FAW] will have something to say about that. My job is to try to get Wales to major championships and I have failed twice to do that."
The Wales boss also hinted that he believes the current side may break up before the World Cup qualifying campaign for 2006 begins in a year's time.
He added: "A lot of people will be looking at their futures and possibly making decisions but they really need to go away, take stock and make a decision in the cold light of day. Everyone is very emotional at the moment.
"Everyone was very down in the dressing room afterwards. We have come a long way in a short space of time but we have not managed to take that final step. "We have a group of people who are very close and it is a difficult time but we will regroup and review what has gone on.
"We have made people sit up and take notice and put Welsh football on a higher level, but the financial implications of not qualifying are going to have an impact. We have played to full houses every home game so financial we are in better shape but our hopes of moving to where we want to be have stalled," he said.