After finishing a club record sixth in the league last season, TS Galaxy find themselves bottom after three matches. Head coach Sead Ramovic has responded to suggestions he was spurred on by a feud with Rulani Mokwena in 2023/24.

The fight between Ramovic and the then Mamelodi Sundowns head coach, at least in the public domain, started early last term, at this time last year, after the Serbian-German did not take kindly to Mokwena not giving them credit for their penalty shoot-out win over The Brazilians in the Carling Knockout first round.

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The former Orlando Pirates coach bemoaned that they did not have seven of their regular players, who could not play after Bafana Bafana duty, with an important African Football League quarter-final encounter against Petro de Luanda on the horizon.

Ramovic viewed it as not acknowledging their sporting achievement, to beat a team with a bigger financial budget, and insisted that Mokwena couldn't make excuses having such huge resources at his disposal.

The public spats between the two coaches continued throughout the campaign, escalated to allegations against each other and extended to a rivalry between the two clubs, to the point where matters even went to court, both in Mokwena's personal capacity and Sundowns as a club.

After four defeats in their first four games this season, including elimination in the MTN8, there's suggestions that Ramovic has lost the 'fire' in him, without Mokwena, who has joined Wydad Casablanca.

However, the 45-year-old says that is far from being the case.

"Let me put it this way... You work hard, you make money, you do it for yourself, that's not life. You go out, seek people who need your help, you make their lives better. When you realise you've changed someone else's life and because of you this person did not give up, that's the day you live, and this is me," Ramovic said on 947's MSW.

"I don't care about Rulani. I don't care about the 'fire' that people think we had. The only way [is that] I stand for myself, I stand for respect and I stand for what life is about. Not about this guy. I don't want to mention anything at all about him, because it's not worth it to talk more about him. I would like to talk about what is the most important thing in life.

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"If you can count one and one and if a guy does what he does, I don't want to mention again, you know all the history. I'm sure deeply in you, you felt ashamed also [of] what he did and I'm sure you also felt what he did is disrespectful, not only to me but to many coaches. But again, it is no longer worth [it] to talk about him. If people think I've lost fire [because of him], that's the opinion of the people," the former Wolfsburg goalkeeper added.

Ramovic came close to becoming Mokwena's rival again in Morocco, after being enlisted by Raja Casablanca. However, he turned down their job offer, after they insisted he leaves his staff behind.

On a more positive note, Galaxy are through to the Carling Knockout quarterfinals after beating Chippa United 1-0 on Sunday.