Jose Enrique insists he wants to remain with Newcastle United.
"I'm happy living here, I'm happy being at Newcastle, because it's a very good club and a great city, and I'm happy because I am playing right now," Enrique told the Sunday Sun.
"But I'm not happy because we've only won one of our last six games, and because of the position we are in the league. Nobody here can be totally happy in this situation."
Does that sound like a player who doesn't care enough? Time to apply some perspective to the travails of a lad who was barely 21 when he arrived at Newcastle from Villarreal.
"I know I can play better than I have," he admits. "It's been difficult to play here. Not in England, but in this team, because when you play bad and your team is down, life is hard.
"You have seen the games. In some of them, all we do is defend, defend. That is the situation we are in.
"In Spain, my game was to attack. You play with Manchester United, Arsenal . . . they are never defending in the game. All the time it is 'attack, attack'. But in our situation, it's more difficult."