As we come to the end of 2016, neither Barcelona nor their supporters know if the coach of the first-team, Luis Enrique, will continue in the position beyond June 30, the Asturian asking for more time to consider his options.
Just as he did at Barcelona B, Roma and Celta Vigo, Lucho will be in full control over his future.
He has accumulated considerable credit for all he has achieved in two and a half seasons on the bench at the Camp Nou, for everything he can still achieve in this current season and, above all, for having made the team able to compete again.
After the departure of Pep Guardiola, the loss of Tito Vilanova and the terrible year under Gerardo 'Tata' Martino, the successes give him time to decide whether he wants to start a fourth season at the club or if he prefers to take a sabbatical, as he acknowledged a few days ago in an interview on the club channel.
"If my future is not here , it will not be anywhere," he said.
However, the club are not willing to wait until the spring for his decision.
The directors and board executives in charge of sports planning want news before the decisive part of the season begins.

A precedent for a goodbye
In 2012, Guardiola waited for the outcome of the titles in May to say publicly that he would not continue, which he had already decided and shared internally before the holidays.
Until then, he batted away the questions about his future that he was asked at press conferences.
Luis Enrique also has his own precedent of goodbye at Barcelona - in 2011 when in charge of the B team. After his third season, he announced that he had left.
"We have helped to train footballers for the first team but now I am looking for new challenges and I don't know where the future will take me. But I'm not worried about anything," he explained, arriving at Roma shortly afterwards.
Lucho's future will be decided by what he wants, what he feels, but is also associated, obviously, to people who work with him on a day-to-day basis and who depend on his decisions.
His closest associates will be the first to know but his players will also be keen to find out.