Marcelo Bielsa's future at Leeds United is the most hotly-debated topic surrounding the club - and it isn't hard to understand why.
Bielsa was a key figure, along with Andrea Radrizzani and Angus Kinnear, in rebirthing the side upon his arrival in 2018.
The Argentine almost immediately galvanised a tortured fanbase with vibrant attacking football, lampooning long-held notions that Championship clubs only earn promotion through grinding out results before then struggling in the top flight.
Leeds have subsequently planted themselves firmly in the Premier League's mid-table this season, one whole division above where the club seemed to be perpetually stationed when Bielsa took charge.
The 65-year-old has repeatedly agreed to one-year contracts at Leeds, as opposed to signing more conventional long-term agreements, synonymous with top-level managers.
That means as this season comes to a close, speculation over the Argentine's future ramps up once again.
Argentine daily newspaper La Nacion reported last weekend that Bielsa and his team were close to sealing an unprecedented two-year extension at Elland Road, although that is yet to be ratified by any members of the Leeds United press-pack.
There are dissenting views however, when it comes to Bielsa's future.
His coaching mentor Jorge Griffa, a former Atletico Madrid player and Argentine international heavily involved with the Newell's Old Boys youth setup has urged his former student to return home.
Speaking in a radio interview with Super Deportivo Radio, via Sport Witness, Griffa said: " “Marcelo really has a natural obligation that he must express by coming to his home club. He has a higher grade than mine, because he is working in modern football. Therefore, in quotation marks you have the obligation to return to your home club.
“The only club that he has to return is Newell’s Old Boys, because it is the club that gave him birth. All the people of Newell’s Old Boys want him to return, so he has the obligation to return at the right time and that the club is in a position to receive him and he is in a position to give the appropriate answers."
Griffa was involved with Newell's in the 1970s when his playing career had come to an end and Bielsa was starting out as a coach within the Argentine club's youth teams.
One of Newell's most historic and successful spells was the early 1990s in which a Bielsa-led side won the 1991 Apertura and 1992 Clausura titles in Argentina's top flight, as well as finishing runner-up in the Copa Libertadores - South America's Champions League - that same year.
The Primera Division club, known as The Lepers , are currently managed by former assistant to Diego Simeone at Atletico Madrid German Burgos and play at Estadio Marcelo Bielsa in 65-year-old Bielsa's hometown Rosario.
“I would like him to return and win everything within Newell’s Old Boys. Time passes for everyone and he has to take as a fundamental part to end his career as a football coach in a club as he was born: Newell’s," Griffa added.
While they may be the 85-year-old veteran's wishes, the likelihood of Bielsa returning to Argentina to coach a team who only recently appointed their current manager, appears slim.
That does not lessen Bielsa's own regard for Griffa however. The Leeds boss has previously credited him as his mentor at Newell's.
"I received a lot of influence from Jorge Griffa. He’s a master for me. I was with him at Newell’s Old Boys," Bielsa said in a Leeds press conference last year.
Griffa is also credited for discovering legendary Argentine striker Gabriel Batistuta.
