Cardiff City chairman Peter Ridsdale says the imminent move to a new stadium could signal the end of his time with the south Wales club.
Ridsdale arrived at Ninian Park in 2005 as an advisor to the stadium project before eventually becoming chairman.
"I don't know what I'm going to do. I'm chairman of the football club, which I'm very privileged to be," he said.
"I always said that when the stadium was finished I'd ask the shareholders if they wanted me to stick around."
However, despite his sense of a job completed, there is every likelihood that Ridsdale will remain in place to oversee the start of the next chapter in Cardiff City's history.
Former Leeds United chief Ridsdale arrived at Cardiff in February 2005 at the request of then-owner Sam Hammam.
Ridsdale was tasked with helping craft the proposal for a new £30m, 25,000-capacity stadium and to find a way of stemming the club's losses.
New investors were duly found, but Hammam's continuing ownership of the club was a sticking point and Cardiff City had moved to the brink of going into administration by December 2006.
A last-minute deal to buy out Hammam's reported £27m majority shareholding went through and Ridsdale was confirmed as the new chairman the following month.
In October 2007 the club was again teetering on the edge of administration due to a legal battle over a £24m loan from financial backers Langston.
But in March 2008 the High Court decided in Cardiff's favour, ruling that the loan did not have to be paid back until 2016 as the club had originally understood.
Despite all this going on in the background, work progressed on the stadium project at Leckwith which will become the Bluebirds' new home from next season.
In the process Ridsdale, held responsible for the downfall of Leeds under his stewardship, has proved to his doubters he has the expertise to run a football club.
"Without the new stadium the club wouldn't be here today," Ridsdale said.
It's the end of the job I came to do and time for reflection and time for deciding what the future may hold for me and the club
Cardiff City chief Peter Ridsdale
"I inherited debts when I arrived here in excess of £30m, the ability to pay those debts back was only ever going to be possible with the new stadium and the income generation that will bring.
"The job that I and my colleagues have done over the last two or three years to keep the club afloat would literally have been impossible.
"I'm not using that word lightly. Cardiff City Football Club in its current shape would not exist.
"I'll have mixed emotions for a number of reasons, because it has become a home to me, I've some fond memories over the last four years.
"It's certainly given me an opportunity to prove to the doubters that I know how to run a football club.
"The challenge of delivering a new stadium was something that I certainly underestimated and I think I'm very proud that myself and the team have managed to pull off a major achievement.
"It's also mixed emotions because, to some extent, it's the end of the job I came to do and time for reflection and time for deciding what the future may hold for me and for the football club."
Equally key to Cardiff's resurgence has been the role played on the pitch by manager Dave Jones.
The former Wolves, Southampton and Stockport County boss has had to operate on a budget far below many of his Championship rivals.
That has not prevented Jones from leading Cardiff to the FA Cup final last year and to the brink of promotion this season.
The Bluebirds need just one point from their remaining two matches to secure a play-off berth.
Jones also has the happy knack of spotting bargain talent, such as strikers Michael Chopra and Ross McCormack.
Should the Bluebirds win through to promotion and the riches of the Premier League, it would almost certainly seal Ridsdale's stay.
But even another season in the Championship, playing at their new state-of-the-art stadium, will probably see Ridsdale prudently pulling the strings off the field.
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