At face value, Leeds United are heading into the 2021/22 season like many other top sides across Europe's major leagues.
Currently, they do not have a manager contracted to pick the XI on the first day of next season, but their situation is acutely unique and crucially different.
While the 2020/21 campaign was one of monopolies and duopolies toppled across La Liga, Serie A and Ligue 1 in terms of the respective title-winners - in just a few months, that could all have changed dramatically once again.
Old faces have returned to some of their familiar haunts: Massimiliano Allegri back to Juventus, Carlo Ancelotti to Real Madrid and potentially even Mauricio Pochettino to Tottenham Hotspur.
Antonio Conte - after winning Serie A with Inter Milan - has left under acrimonious circumstances, a firesale expected at San Siro given the club's precarious financial position.
Pochettino's own future hangs in the balance at Paris Saint-Germain amid conflicting reports he has requested to leave and has fallen out with sporting director Leonardo, while Ligue 1 winners Lille are set to lose title-winning boss Christophe Galtier.
Then there is the Bundesliga, where seven of last season's top eight teams will begin the new season with a different manager at the helm.
Adi Hutter has swapped Eintracht Frankfurt for Borussia Monchengladbach, Marco Rose switching the latter for Borussia Dortmund - and Hansi Flick leaving Bayern Munich for the German national team, post-Euro 2020.
And then to the Premier League, where Nuno Espirito Santo is reportedly engaged in talks with Crystal Palace, Carlo Ancelotti jumping to a much wealthier, shinier ship, leaving a devastated Goodison Park in his wake and Tottenham still without a permanent Jose Mourinho replacement.
It is a summer of managerial transition, or turmoil, depending on which lens it is viewed through.
At Elland Road, despite the ongoing contract negotiations with Marcelo Bielsa and his staff, the Leeds United hierarchy through their binoculars are watching chaos unfold from calm, steady waters.
Very few clubs across Europe's major leagues could boast the managerial serenity during this year's close season.
Even directors whose managers appear content in their current roles, must at the very least be worried they might be tapped up for a bigger, more illustrious job: Graham Potter at Brighton and Hove Albion for example.
For Marcelo Bielsa though, there is no job bigger than Leeds United.
And the choppy seas, the managerial merry-go-round, whichever imaginative metaphorical depiction is attributed to this summer of change, hands Leeds a unique advantage.
While many Premier League squads will be handed a new manager to acclimatise to, much of Bielsa's Leeds squad will embark on their fourth consecutive pre-season with the Argentine, his methods by this point imprinted on the inside of their eyelids.
More speculative reports will claim trouble is afoot the longer Bielsa is not tied to a contract, but with the 65-year-old, he has already given something which means more than the scribble of a signature: his word.
Leeds United directors were quietly optimistic at the club's end-of-season awards that Bielsa would re-sign for another year - and with no reason to suspect otherwise, no indication of underhand tactics to leverage an offer with a 'bigger' club, Leeds can continue to chart their course for those steady waters, consolidating their place in mid-table.
