After over a year out the game, Eddie Howe finally seems set to jump back onto the football roller-coaster with Newcastle - a job that could be a ticket to the very top or one that takes him back into the Championship.
Having embarrassingly failed to land Unai Emery, Newcastle's new Saudi-backed ownership look to be returning to Howe cap in hand, with the former Bournemouth manager and the rest of the footballing world only too aware he is their second choice.
Should Howe care? Perhaps not. For all the chaos of Newcastle's manager search, the Magpies job should remain a tantalising prospect for a manager, especially a man like Howe.