As Bastian Schweinsteiger celebrates his return to first-team training at Manchester United, there will be many fans at Old Trafford who would like to see Jose Mourinho complete his dramatic U-turn and put the German World Cup winner back in the team.
It's hard to see Mourinho putting himself in a position where he is effectively saying he's made a massive mistake.
Nonetheless with United struggling for goals particularly from midfield there is growing evidence that it would be the right thing to do.
Schweinsteiger is after all 32 not 42, and his record of 24 international goals for Germany would be of interest to most Premier League managers.
And wouldn't the likes of Paul Pogba, whose £89million price tag weighs heavily, benefit from having a player alongside him who has won everything in the game including eight Bundesliga titles and the Champions League for Bayern.
Rewind the clock a few months. Mourinho strides into Old Trafford keen to take action that underlies the fact he's not Louis van Gaal.
Mourinho buys Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Paul Pogba, Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Eric Bailly. Mourinho creates excitement. Then, on the eve of the season, Mourinho sends Schweinsteiger – an LVG vanity signing - to train with the kids. No place in United's Champions League squad or official team photograph, the message could not have been clearer. He was finished at Old Trafford.
It was a bold, some would say unnecessary move, by Mourinho. And in some ways it's backfired.
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