Russell Martin is back home on England's south coast, making a mark at one of the Championship's heavyweight clubs and eyeing a genuine chance to manage in the Premier League.
For Martin, and Southampton, these are exciting times.
Yet while his focus now is the Saints, Martin still wonders about how things might have worked out at Swansea City.
"Of course," he told BBC Sport Wales. "I think what might have been if we'd done a bit more last January, if we'd then been given the security of the future which we'd been told we were going to get for quite some time and then didn't.