Make no mistake, Marcelo Bielsa taking the Championship club with the seventh-highest wage bill in the second tier to the Premier League is an enormous achievement.
He is one of the indefatigable reasons why Leeds United are once again a Premier League entity and look as though they will remain at the top table of English football for some time yet.
Leeds' summer expenditure closed in on £100 million - a large chunk of which spent on 29-year-old Rodrigo Moreno. Not quite a striker, but also not a midfielder, throughout his career the Brazilian-born Spaniard has nestled himself nicely somewhere in the middle-ground.
Rodrigo has 54 appearances in European competition to his name, with 13 goals in the Europa and Champions Leagues too.
Leeds United's squad was hard-pushed to find 50 Premier League appearances between them on arrival in the top flight, never mind Europe.
The squad consists of lower league stalwarts; Luke Aylings of Yeovil Town, Liam Coopers of Chesterfield, Stuart Dallas' of Brentford and Northampton Town. That is what Marcelo Bielsa inherited, and took them to the top division.
Rodrigo's addition felt like a huge moment for a number of reasons; breaking the club's transfer record being one in particular. It also indicated that Leeds were back, no longer marooned in the mid-table mediocrity of the Championship where seasons ground to a halt in March with no risk of relegation and an even unlikelier tilt at making the play-offs.
The Spaniard demonstrates perhaps most strikingly of any member in the current Leeds squad, that despite the unity, there are two emerging teams within Leeds United. The most populated group is made up of the players who returned Leeds to the Premier League, and the other consists of Rodrigo, Raphinha, Koch, Llorente and soon Meslier.
They are the players - most of them young - with international and European pedigree, who will propel Leeds towards the next stage in their evolution as a club. Rodrigo epitomises this group best, with his recent performances, particularly against Newcastle.
The difference in his confident stride, ability to create chances, scythe passes down the sides of defences while also doubling as an auxiliary centre-forward is the stuff of continental class.
There are plenty of players - most of them at big clubs - who have a single Champions League cameo to their name, substituted on in the dying stages of a 3-0 win over VfL Wolfsburg with qualification from the Group Stage guaranteed. Throughout their careers, they do not see a single minute more in European competition.
Fifty-four appearances is no fluke.
When Marcelo Bielsa departs, and he will one day depart with his head humbly bowed and hands clasped behind his back, it is the Rodrigos of Leeds United who will take the club forward to the next step.
Victor Orta and Andrea Radrizzani have made abundantly clear their goal is to bring European nights back to Elland Road - why else would they have installed shiny new floodlights?
Leeds are on a ladder, and the motley crew of 2019-20 can only take them so high. Sentiment does not win football matches; Champions League quality does.
While they each have a part to play in the seasons to come, more Rodrigos will arrive and in turn replace the players Bielsa has woven into a Premier League-ready unit.
It is a bittersweet realisation but if Leeds United supporters were given the opportunity to relive nights like AC Milan, Besiktas, AS Roma, Barcelona and Ferencvaros in the here and now, or see Bielsa's promotion-winning side live out their existence as a bottom half Premier League club, which would you choose?
