Honesty is not always the best policy

[Citizen Journalist Foghorn 0]

If Dean Ashton wants to leave it is NOT in the interests of the club to let anyone know this. It could well be that he has said this to the management and Board, but is NOT saying it in public in order for us to try and obtain as much money as we can get for him. If it became public knowledge you could slash a couple of million off his value in an instant.