Marcelo Bielsa has long made it clear that he dreams of managing at the new Wembley. He commented in 2018: 'Everyone would love to play at Wembley. I don't know the new Wembley. I'd like to get to go there but not as a spectator.'
Based on reports this week, he might get that shot if he can achieve his current goal – securing promotion and the Championship with Leeds United.
There have been suggestions that the winners of the Championship could be invited to play in the Community Shield if the FA Cup winners are tied up with European commitments.
Leeds are on course for that, although plenty can change over the last four games of the season in the second-tier, with promotion not even close to being secured.
Bielsa is a man known as El Loco because he's so disciplined that it becomes eccentric. Another of Leeds' long list of mavericks was the key man when they last triumphed at Wembley.
That was in the then-Charity Shield too. It was also against Liverpool. Separated by 28 years, it was a quirky figure who guided them past the Reds – Eric Cantona.
Years before the seagulls followed the trawlers, West Yorkshire was in the middle of a serious love affair with Cantona. He had arrived in March 1992, initially on loan, and helped steer them to the title.
While his contribution was never as significant as it is painted in retrospect, the city of Leeds knew it had a talent on its hands.
A bakery in north Leeds sold the 'Cantona Bagel'. The popularity of the name Eric rose. And when he was hailed at the Town Hall after the title was won, he told Leeds fans: 'Why I love you? I don't know why, but I love you. I am sorry, but I am very, very, very happy.'
If the title was something he chipped in on, then the Charity Shield on August 8 was his day.
The Frenchman was the hat-trick hero as Leeds emerged from a dramatic game as 4-3 winners.
It began with Cantona latching onto a drag back into the middle of the box from Rod Wallace on the left side. He fired past Bruce Grobbelaar in the Liverpool net to put Leeds ahead in the 26th minute.
Ian Rush equalised in the 34th minute before Tony Dorigo's deflected free-kick put Leeds ahead again.
Dean Saunders tied the game for Liverpool again, but then the match was pure Cantona.
His second was brilliant. Gary McAllister played a free-kick into the box before it was headed down into Cantona's path. He struck it with venom and bent it past the flailing Grobbelaar.
He then knocked in his third, rising highest at the back post to nod past Grobbelaar and put Leeds two ahead.
When Gordon Strachan managed an own goal in the 89th minute, it did not really matter – Leeds were set to lift the Charity Shield for the first time since 1969.
Manager Howard Wilkinson was full of praise for the forward that day. He said: 'It seems he's made a piece of history. I understand he's the first man to score three in a Charity Shield.
'I would say Eric is a better player now than he was six months ago.
'He's worked very hard in pre-season training and though he still finds it difficult out there at times there's no doubt he has exceptional potential.
'He's doing all he can about trying to secure a place in the team.'
What also emerged around that time was how the dynamic between player and manager was developing.
A team-mate of Cantona's told the Daily Mail's Neil Harman that weekend: 'You want to see his bottom lip go when he's not having things his own way.
'The boss knows the look.'
Wilkinson added: 'If I say nasty things and suggest Eric should work harder, he doesn't like it. If I say nice things, he's fine.
'He likes to score beautiful goals, but I've told him I don't mind ugly ones, either.'
As then-chairman Bill Fotherby told Sportsmail in 2017, behind the scenes, issues were developing. Cantona would not take part in set-piece drills in training, walking off rather than following instructions.
Rather than the Charity Shield being the springboard to a bright future for Cantona and Leeds, it was the last glory day – barring a hat-trick against Chelsea in the new Premier League – for him at the club.
He handed in a transfer request after being dropped for a game against Arsenal on 24 November and two days later he was sold to arch-rivals Manchester United.
There glory came with ease. He won the Premier League that season, helping United end a long spell without a title.
Leeds never really hit those heights again, barring a run to the Champions League semi-finals in 2000-01. They have since dropped down as far as League One, with the next few weeks representing their best shot at promotion to the promised land since they were cast out of it.
Bielsa will hope he is the man to secure it. A Community Shield place would just be a bonus. But like Cantona, making an impact on that Wembley turf would matter to him.
Even if he would abandon the dugout in favour of his famous bucket.