Tlou had guided the team to the best season in the club’s history as they, for the first time, secured a Premier League spot after a convincing First Division South League campaign. Against the odds, Young Stars pipped many household names including, Extension Gunners, Notwane, and Mochudi Centre Chiefs to the automatic promotional spot. But Tlou and Young Stars' celebrations were cut short as the club's management decided to sell the Premier League status to Gunners. “The best season of my life, we won the season convincingly with Young Stars and promoted Young Stars to the Premier League, and at the end of the season, we parted ways,” Tlou remembers. He said that the club did not inform him about the decision to sell the status as he watched their season-long hard work go to waste. “When you are first brought into the team, you sit down on certain terms and conditions, how things will unfold at the end of the season, and how things would go during the season. So at the end of the season, after we won the league with all that work, with the knowledge that we were going to the Premier League, all of a sudden the sponsors said they did not have enough finances to sustain the team in the Premier League,” he said. “So, I had no choice but to leave because I had thought we were going to the Premier League and then we were left to stay in the First Division and they sold the status to Gunners, and surprisingly it was sold without my knowledge, without any discussion with me. This was the status that was won by myself, so it was a big disappointment but I understood. When the investors say they could not afford it, what choice do you have, so I had to leave,” Tlou said
. 'Druza' as he is affectionately called in football circles, returned to one of his former teams, Blue Diamonds. He had a stint with the club in 2021 and won the Southern Regional Football Association (SORFA) league and got the team promoted to the First Division South League. It was a regression from gaining Premier League qualification to the third-tier league, SORFA. Part of Tlou's decision was influenced by proving a point. “Some people believed that when I won the league with Young Stars it was because I was privileged and I had (quality) players and had everything to work with. So I wanted to show that I can work in any environment whether the team is privileged or not. Whether the team is well-resourced or not, I can work with that. So Blue Diamonds has nothing, absolutely nothing and I am working hard with the little players we have to achieve the unthinkable,” Tlou said.
Blue Diamonds are having a good season under the outspoken tactician. The team leads the SORFA Division One standings as they sit three points ahead of second-placed, Kanye United with eight games to play. The team is gunning for the single promotional playoffs spot as Tlou targets a return to the First Division just after a season with Blue Diamonds. “It is very tough in the second division because a lot of teams here are being coached by coaches who are not qualified; coaches that recently quit football, mostly former players who have just hung their boots. So playing against a team like that is very difficult because you never know what you would come up against. If the coach is qualified, you would know because we work around the same tactics, the same things are needed to win in football to bring results, so it is easier to prepare for a team that is coached by a qualified coach. I can tell you that most coaches would not survive in the second division,” he argued.
He stated that there is confidence and belief as they prepare to go ‘through hell’ in the dog-eat-dog business to reach the playoffs. "It is not going to be easy but I have done it before and I can do it again,” he said. In the 2013–2014 season, Tlou guided Young Stars to the First Division South League promotional playoffs. He won the SORFA title for the second time in the 2017–2018 football season with Jwaneng Fighters. This time the coach led his side to a promotional playoffs triumph and guided Fighters in the second-tier league. In the next season, his side lost the automatic Premier League promotional spot as they came second by just a point in the First Division South League to Gilport Lions. The team, however, lost the Premier League playoffs to Morupule Wanderers in the same campaign. From the playoff, Tlou took a coaching break until his return to the touchline post the COVID-19 outbreak. He returned to the dugout with Blue Diamonds. Tlou’s biggest coaching phase was his return to Young Stars in the 2023–2024 season in the First Division.
