The many moods of Jose Enrique.

The talk of Jose Enrique and a potential summer move to either Liverpool, AC Milan, Aston Villa and so on is starting to dominate things at Newcastle.

I personally think that some of Jose Enrique's interview, which was originally in Spanish, has been lost in translation, although I don't doubt for one moment that there will be some serious interest in our star left back come the summer.

Jose has been one of our top performers so far this season, but with his admission that he is effectively open to offers from other clubs that now looks to be a bad thing rather than a good thing with regard to keeping hold of him.

Jose needs to make up his mind though. If, and it's a big if, we invest in players in the summer that ease Jose's concerns then perhaps he could be persuaded to stay. If we don't then he'll want out, and I couldn't really blame him, although it wouldn't be the first time that Jose has wanted to upsticks and leave.

Admittedly this was in the direct aftermath of relegation, but it does kind of put a different slant of things when he states that he was prepared to take a pay cut to leave Newcastle. You can read the full article here, but it's this quote that got me more than anything.

"If there's any interest from a Spanish club I'll take the offer seriously," said Enrique.

Just like you are willing to take any new offer seriously, Jose?

It winds me up to be honest. I know it shouldn't as I don't expect any kind of loyalty from football players anymore. Loyalty died when Big Al retired. What winds me up the most about it is why now? Why, with eleven games left has Jose decided that now is that time to alienate fans?

At the end of the day, Jose has been here for a few years now, but it's only really this season that we have seen the best of him playing against the best that other teams have to offer. This is fair enough as it can take a while to settle and all that and it wasn't necessarily his fault that we were in The Championship, but the fans have been right behind him from day one and have never got on his back, even in the days when it seemed like the £6 million that we paid for him looked like a good deal for Villareal and not for us!

I guess my main gripe with him is why he couldn't keep quiet about it? Why couldn't he just wait and see rather than displaying what his intentions are to the public? I did think that we had a chance to hold on to him if we show him that the Carroll money is to be reinvested, but now I am already consigned to losing him in the summer.

Start your bids now!